Oncore!DOCS, Powered by Nextcloud

An Enterprise File Sync and Share solution that keeps data under control.

Organizations need to have easy access to their files, photos and documents to work and share with team members, customers and partners. And IT needs to know nobody besides those they shared with has access to those files.

Oncore!DOCS, powered by Nextcloud is an Azure secured and optimized, open source file sync and share solution designed to be easy-to-use, and completely on your terms.

• Easy access anywhere - A modern and easy-to-use web interface, desktop clients and mobile apps.
• Real-time collaboration and instant access to all data from any device, anywhere! Client applications available for all your platforms including Apple iOS / macOS; Android, Windows, Linux.
• Deep integration - Access data from FTP, Windows Network Drive, SharePoint, NFS, Object storage (e.g. Azure Storage) and more.

Oncore!DOCS Tech Specs

The appliance is built on standard opensource software, secured and optimized for Azure:

• CentOS 7.x
• PHP 7.2
• MariaDB 5.6 (CentOS distributed)
• Apache 2.4 (CentOS distributed)
• Nextcloud 16.x

IPTABLES host-level firewall with TCP ports 22, 80, 443 open. Azure Network Security Group with TCP 22, 80 and 443 open assigned to virtual machine NIC 1.

Root has been disabled. To re-enable, simply set a password (e.g. as docsadmin: sudo passwd root).

Installation

The base virtual machine is deployed unprovisioned. The administrator must login to initiate a firstrun installation and commissioning process. Firstrun allows administrative accounts to be secured and individual installation parameters customized.

Login via SSH to the public IP address assigned to the deployed Oncore!DOCS instance:

• Login: docsadmin
• Password: oncoreDOCS

First run automatically launches on initial login. Press 1 to proceed with installation process. This generally takes a few minutes to complete, after which first run script is removed and instance is fully configured, ready for use.

Once initially provisioned, the virtual machine can be administered as a standard LAMP host. The VM includes certbot for integration with Lets Encrypt SSL certificates, alternatively certificated may be installed manually as per Apache HTTPD documentation.