Oh no wait, I can't most PCs now have only 256GB SSD and even if they didn't I would not be doing this. Really Synology? Sure let me sync 300GB into every single PC. What they are really saying is “We haven’t put any effort on this to make it work” Synology’s tech support answer: Microsoft indexing toolkit is limited when compared to Apple’s. No surprise there since Unix and Linux share the same file structure.

However, it does work with Mac’s Spotlight search. Synology Indexing Search implementation DOES NOT work with Windows Clients period. This is a real big issue, because no matter how small a company is - everybody runs searches on Network Drives and expect the results to be fast and accurate. We had to resort to login scripts to make it work.īut let’s say that your environment is very simple and you are running mainly Windows 7 Pro therefore you think that I’m making a big deal just because GPOs. Like Windows 10 Pro not getting the GPO applied no matter how hard you tried. If you want to do some “light” GPO deployment you will have to use a workstation with AD tools installed and even then there are issues and limitations. Don’t expect any real Group Policy Manager. Hence, what's not to love about Synology’s dazzling array of options and the awesome look and feel? Well actually quite a few things are not so lovely. This gave pro-users no excuse if they were holding back because they still needed to keep an Active Directory infrastructure in place. The new Active Directory Package featured on DSM 6 was the missing link if you wanted to use the Synology server as your main and only server (At least in theory). Synology has been targeting the SMB Server market by adding AD support through Samba and several infrastructure apps that will make you think that you can take the plunge and get rid of that old Windows 2008 or 2011 server – However, this is a classic case where there is more than meets the eyes, because Synology is not telling you the whole story. I know many will say that QNAP is better, if that’s your poison good for you, but in my case I have found that every time I have needed to do something with a Synology NAS device, I have been able to do it and in many cases it has surpassed my expectations. I switched to Synology 4 years ago and I had never look back. Let me start by saying that Synology NAS products are well designed and their custom Linux OS is extremely user friendly, slick and beautiful, not to mention very stable. If you are managing Macs and/or Linux then this post is not for you. My post assumes that you are running a pure Windows Network Environment with Windows Clients.

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