diff --git a/src/components/experiment-overview/experiment-overview.js b/src/components/experiment-overview/experiment-overview.js
index 4ddbc2617c8a85488d43efcb46330eb6223af473..b43fb7a9d504792832640f57a7b35acfa5de78c6 100644
--- a/src/components/experiment-overview/experiment-overview.js
+++ b/src/components/experiment-overview/experiment-overview.js
@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ export default class ExperimentOverview extends React.Component {
   };
 
   onUpdateStorageExperiments(storageExperiments) {
-    let joinableExperiments = storageExperiments.filter(
-      experiment => experiment.joinableServers && experiment.joinableServers.length > 0);
+    let joinableExperiments = storageExperiments/*.filter(
+      experiment => experiment.joinableServers && experiment.joinableServers.length > 0)*/;
     this.setState({
       storageExperiments: storageExperiments,
       joinableExperiments: joinableExperiments
diff --git a/src/components/nrp-core-dashboard/nrp-core-dashboard.js b/src/components/nrp-core-dashboard/nrp-core-dashboard.js
index 0d9a32263d57159c21551dbac63416bf72d90f55..88489d1d385635993ec40d279564071663286227 100644
--- a/src/components/nrp-core-dashboard/nrp-core-dashboard.js
+++ b/src/components/nrp-core-dashboard/nrp-core-dashboard.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import React from 'react';
 
 import MqttClientService from '../../services/mqtt-client-service';
+import ExperimentStorageService from '../../services/experiments/files/experiment-storage-service';
 
 export default class NrpCoreDashboard extends React.Component {
   constructor(props) {
@@ -22,10 +23,18 @@ export default class NrpCoreDashboard extends React.Component {
     });
   }
 
+  async triggerProxyScanStorage() {
+    let result = await ExperimentStorageService.instance.scanStorage();
+    console.info('triggerProxyScanStorage:');
+    console.info(result);
+  }
+
   render() {
     return (
       <div>
         {this.mqttBrokerUrl}
+        <br />
+        <button onClick={this.triggerProxyScanStorage}>Proxy Scan Storage</button>
       </div>
     );
   }
diff --git a/src/services/experiments/files/experiment-storage-service.js b/src/services/experiments/files/experiment-storage-service.js
index 561052f63916063c1d1dcbe821dd2d1b2d6165f7..36942d6c996b583b2dbb7d4d59b2cfd4aaea494f 100644
--- a/src/services/experiments/files/experiment-storage-service.js
+++ b/src/services/experiments/files/experiment-storage-service.js
@@ -5,8 +5,11 @@ import endpoints from '../../proxy/data/endpoints.json';
 import config from '../../../config.json';
 import DialogService from '../../dialog-service.js';
 
-const storageURL = `${config.api.proxy.url}${endpoints.proxy.storage.url}`;
-const storageExperimentsURL = `${config.api.proxy.url}${endpoints.proxy.storage.experiments.url}`;
+const PROXY_URL = config.api.proxy.url;
+const SCAN_STORAGE_URL = `${PROXY_URL}${endpoints.proxy.storage.scanStorage.url}`;
+const storageURL = `${PROXY_URL}${endpoints.proxy.storage.url}`;
+const storageExperimentsURL = `${PROXY_URL}${endpoints.proxy.storage.experiments.url}`;
+
 
 let _instance = null;
 const SINGLETON_ENFORCER = Symbol();
@@ -71,8 +74,9 @@ class ExperimentStorageService extends HttpService {
     if (!this.experiments || forceUpdate) {
       try {
         let experimentList = await (await this.httpRequestGET(storageExperimentsURL)).json();
+        console.info(['ExperimentStorageService.getExperiments()', experimentList]);
         // filter out experiments with incomplete configuration (probably storage corruption)
-        experimentList = experimentList.filter(experiment => experiment.configuration.experimentFile);
+        experimentList = experimentList.filter(experiment => experiment.configuration);
         this.sortExperiments(experimentList);
         await this.fillExperimentDetails(experimentList);
         this.experiments = experimentList;
@@ -128,15 +132,15 @@ class ExperimentStorageService extends HttpService {
   async fillExperimentDetails(experimentList) {
     let experimentUpdates = [];
     experimentList.forEach(experiment => {
-      if (!experiment.configuration.brainProcesses && experiment.configuration.bibiConfSrc) {
+      /*if (!experiment.configuration.brainProcesses && experiment.configuration.bibiConfSrc) {
         experiment.configuration.brainProcesses = 1;
-      }
+      }*/
 
       // retrieve the experiment thumbnail
-      experimentUpdates.push(this.getThumbnail(experiment.name, experiment.configuration.thumbnail)
+      /*experimentUpdates.push(this.getThumbnail(experiment.name, experiment.configuration.thumbnail)
         .then(thumbnail => {
           experiment.thumbnailURL = URL.createObjectURL(thumbnail);
-        }));
+        }));*/
 
       experiment.rights = EXPERIMENT_RIGHTS.OWNED;
       experiment.rights.launch = (experiment.private && experiment.owned) || !experiment.private;
@@ -288,6 +292,14 @@ class ExperimentStorageService extends HttpService {
         'please make sure that the contentType and the body type match.');
     }
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Trigger proxy to scan storage.
+   * @returns {promise} Result
+   */
+  async scanStorage() {
+    return await (await this.httpRequestPOST(SCAN_STORAGE_URL)).json();
+  }
 }
 
 ExperimentStorageService.EVENTS = Object.freeze({