Florian Guilbert, FM Conférence 2018 Securing FileMaker Server – Best Practices 1. Hosting FileMaker Server: On-Premises vs. Data Centers When hosting a FileMaker Server, you must decide whether to host the server on-premises or in a data center. Both options have advantages and challenges that need to be carefully weighed. On-Premises Hosting: Control vs. Responsibility
Mastering External Authentication in FileMaker: EA, SSO, AD, OD, OAuth, and LDAP Unveiled Wim Decorte, FileMaker DevCon 2017 Table of Contents Introduction In today’s interconnected digital landscape, managing user authentication efficiently and securely is paramount. The FileMaker Platform, widely used for creating custom apps, recognizes this need and has evolved to support various external authentication
Tim Neudecker, FileMaker DevCon 2015 Successfully deploying FileMaker in large organizations requires more than just technical know-how. A strong partnership with the IT department is critical for navigating security, infrastructure, and compliance challenges. Tim Neudecker’s DevCon 2015 session sheds light on the strategies for overcoming these challenges by fostering collaboration between developers and IT. This
Wim Decorte, May 15, 2015, Soliant Consulting Blog Source: https://www.soliantconsulting.com/soliant-tv/keychain-access-windows-mac/ Table of Contents Introduction In this post, we’ll take a deep dive into how Keychain Access works in FileMaker 14 on both Mac and Windows, the changes it brings, and how you can control this feature as a developer. What is Keychain Access in FileMaker?
Wim Decorte, Jan 3, 2014, Soliant Consulting Blog Source: https://www.soliantconsulting.com/blog/references-embedded-container-data/ FileMaker 13 introduces a new function that gives us some 30 different attributes about the data we store in a container field: GetContainerAttribute(). One of those attributes is the name of the file that we can ask for like this: And another attribute is to see whether
Wim Decorte, Dec 20, 2012, Soliant Consulting Blog Source: https://www.soliantconsulting.com/blog/filemaker-server-directory-ldap/ When you host a FileMaker solution on FileMaker Server you can take advantage of a very powerful feature to use accounts and groups already in the company’s Windows Active Directory or the OS X Open Directory. For the feature to work you need only two
Wim Decorte, Nov 29, 2012, Soliant Consulting Blog Source: https://www.soliantconsulting.com/blog/filemaker-backups-network-share/ I like simple rules. Like the 3-2-1 rule for backups which tells us to keep 3 backups of anything that is important, store them on at least 2 different backup media, and keep at least 1 backup in a different place. Applying that rule to