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Insightful Employee Productivity Monitoring Tool Installation Process for Version of Linux

Insightful is the best employee productivity monitoring tool which support to the version of Linux operating systems.


This article is describing the installation process of Insightful to Linux operating systems. Because the website doesn’t have the clear guide to install it for Linux operating systems except the Windows and Mac OS environments.


The installation process is different for personal and company computers.


Company Computers


Company computer installation is done using the Linux terminal. In order to create a terminal line, you need your organization ID.


1. To get your unique Organization ID, first, log in to Insightful as the admin.
2. Go to Add New Employee > Company computers > Download for MacOS
3. In the terminal line, part of it will be your Organization ID. It looks like this:

export base="https://storage.googleapis.com/workpuls-updates/mac/daemon"; /bin/bash -c

"organizationId="OrganizationID"; $(curl -fsSL $base/install.sh)" 

4. Copy your Organization ID into the following:

export base="https://storage.googleapis.com/workpuls-updates/linux/service"; /bin/bash -c

"organizationId="organizationID"; $(curl -fsSL $base/install.sh)"

5. Newly created terminal line should be copied into the Linux terminal, press enter and the installation will begin.


Personal Computers

After you send personal computer invites, you should follow these steps:

2. Right click on the file and choose Properties
3. On the “Permissions” tab, check the option “Allow executing file as a program
4. Exit the window and double click on AppImage file

FortiClient SSL VPN Stuck at 98% on Windows 10 then Immediately Disconnects


Recently most of the users are face that FortiClient VPN reach to 98% and sudden disconnecting. This issue is not solve even after the restart.


This happened due to recent Windows update and there is only one solution to fixed it.


Once you reinstall the FortiClient SSL VPN software this issue can be fixed. Unless it dint worked and you can't connect to the VPN.

How to Install a Software as an Administrative Privilege? - Quick Assist

 

If you have the remote privilege you cannot pass the administrative credentials to users windows unless user login as the administrator user account.

But there is one method to do it specially when you have to install the software in user's computer.

Please follow the my previous blog post to remote connect to the user computer.

How to use the Quick Assist

After that, 

  • Shift+Right Click on the software
  • Select “Run as different user

  • Give the Administrative credential as below and install it.

If the additional windows appeared in the users windows to approve it, please aske user to approve it.



How to use the Quick Assist

 

Please follow the below steps.

  • Open Quick Assist tool.
  • Click on “Assist another person
  • Sign in with your password.
  • Give the security code to user.
  • User need to enter that code in “Code from assistant” & click on “Share screen

  • Select “Take full control” and click on “Continue
  • User need to click on “Allow

If the above task are done, you can see the users windows as the follows.


Complete Guide of FortiClient EMS

 


FortiClient EMS is paid version with more features to control your endpoint devices of your organization. There has several features and here I mentioned the basic explanation of each and every features.

  • Zero Trust Telemetry
This show us the your endpoint device is connect to the FortiEMS server and it is always connected and cannot disconnect without the pin code provide by the System Administrator. This is always connected either you use the personal internet source or organizational internet source. 


  • Remote Access
This is the normal VPN connected tab and you can use your login credential to login your organizational access. 


  • Sandbox Detection
This feature always check you mail attachments and saved documents if the it has virus or not. This is upload your document to there server and check it and redownload to your endpoint device before you open it or saved it.

This might be increase of data usage in your internet package and it is slower your computer performance. 


  • Web Filter
This is filtering your web access either you connected to the organizational internet source or personal internet source. And it is monitor all your internet activity through the organizational server and there are no any privacy and user have to be careful regarding that. 


  • Application Firewall
This is the firewall monitor the activity in your endpoint device.


  • Vulnerability Scan
This can be schedule to check the vulnerabilities in your endpoint device and it is faction as the virus guard. 

How to use IRM to Restrict Permission to a Outlook Message


IRM - Information Rights Management is the coolest way to restrict the permission of the Outlook messages. Before it use to go, your system administrator is need to install and setup the IRM feature to your mail server. If your administrator is pre-setup it you can see it under "Options" tab as a "Permission" in a new mail writing window.


  • Encrypt - The message was encrypted.
  • Normal - No sensitivity level is assigned to the message.
  • Private - The recipient will see Please treat this as Private in the Info-bar.
  • Personal - The recipient will see Please treat this as Personal in the Info Bar.
  • Confidential - The recipient will see Please treat this as Confidential in the Info Bar.
  • Do Not Forward - All access restricted.


If you want to change your default sensitivity level of the message, please follow the below instructions.
  • File -> Options -> Mail.
  • Under Send messages you can change the  default Sensitivity level.

Microsoft Teams White Window Issue


Some users are experiences the white window in Microsoft Teams cause by several issues.
  • If your account is in a domain environment,
    • Password expire, 
    • Account locked will cause to get white window in Teams.
    • Teams not get your credential properly (To avoid that follow the below instruction).
In that above situation web view might be working under your cloud policy but not working in a PC.
  • If not,
    • Internet connection is not fast enough.
    • Your account is not registered under "Emails & Accounts".
      • Windows Key/Settings/Accounts/Emails & Accounts (Windows 10)
    • Teams not get your credential properly,
      • To avoid that Sign-out and Sign-in
        • Using right click on the "Teams" icon in the task bar.

And make sure your Microsoft Teams is up to date to prevent the several issues.

How to Access Shareable Drives of the Domain Environment from the Work-group or Personal Computers - FortiClient


There is more possible reason to you din't have the company Laptop, Company Laptop was out of battery, Laptop din't working, you forget to bring it home or company laptop was unexpectedly removed from the Domain. In that situation your intimidate boss required the special document at the company file server to re edit and if you have your own personal computer, there is much easier way to do it.

If your company use the Fortinet Firewall, you can download the "FortiClient" VPN from their official site. If not you can download the required VPN client software according to your company Firewall and installed it. If you din't know the settings of the VPN client software, you can contact your IT support.

  • Download and install the VPN Client software.
  • Connect to the VPN using your company login credentials. (Make sure before you have access to the company VPN)
  • Windows+R
  • Type your file server name or a IP address and click on the "OK". Please follow the below format,
    • \\FileServer (If you know the name)
    • \\199.99.9.9 (If you know the IP address)


  • Then you will be prompt the login windows.
    • User name: YourDoman\YourUserName (Ford.com\SamanthaB)
    • Password: Company login password 
  • Click on the "OK"
If you follow the above instruction, you can successfully access to the your file servers.