@shutdown_engineer said in How do you manage internal web proxy with roaming laptop users?:

We put a registry key on users laptops to toggle turning the proxy on and off when they are at home.

What do other people use so that if a user is at home and not connected to our VPN and just wants to surf and check email? Outlook seems to take IE settings so if the proxy is enabled and the user is connected to Wifi only then Outlook will not update and IE won't connect.

Firefox with no proxy set in the browser is a rough and ready workaround that we also use but far from ideal.

Users are mostly Win 10. Our DC is Win 2012 R2 and run Sophos Web Appliance Proxy as a VM.

Thanks

Why is Firefox rough workaround? Why are your users still using IE? It's almost 2020, not 2000 anymore.
2nd issue is proxy. Why would you use one? Most web traffic is encrypted, so web proxies became obsolete, as you cannot use one without doing some man in the middle workarounds. If you need web filtering, then use proper solution like Pi-hole or AdGuard Home.

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@dustinb3403 said in Saving space by leaving NTFS hard links with tree size pro:

Rather than trying to remove hard links I would look at applying some kind of deduplication to your file server.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/data-deduplication/understand

You (and @travisdh1 for upvoting) need to read more.. Server 2008 was clearly stated. There is nothing for Server 2008. Even your link states that Server 2008 R2 was the first to have the old infrastructure called "Single Instance Store"

And your assumption that @shutdown_engineer isn't running R2 is somehow more accurate? And not for nothing, but there are deduplication tools, that can be run on Server 2008 outside of what's provided by microsoft. This was a simple reference to the functionality.