Coming soon to a Dropbox for Business near you: Single sign-on

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Post by Lightning » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 4:21 PM UTC

Coming soon to a Dropbox for Business near you: Single sign-on
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Post by Lightning » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 4:24 PM UTC

No point in submitting twice, so here's the announcement on the main blog: https://blog.dropbox.com/2013/04/say-hello-to-dropbox-for-bu...

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Post by Kiro » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 5:15 PM UTC

Why is the blog https?

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Post by untog » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 5:29 PM UTC

Kiro wrote: post #3

Why is the blog https?

Why not?

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Post by toomuchtodo » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 5:44 PM UTC

Will it work with Google Apps SSO? Wasn't mentioned in the blog post.

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Post by jms18 » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 6:05 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #5

Will it work with Google Apps SSO? Wasn't mentioned in the blog post.

If you're using a SAML Identity Provider to login to your Google Apps environment, then, yes, it should work with your current IdP.

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Post by larrywright » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 6:30 PM UTC

“Dropbox is used in 95% of the Fortune 500”.

I wonder what percentage of those officially allow their employees to use it though. A lot lower I bet.

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Post by jmathai » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 6:40 PM UTC

Do many folks here use Dropbox for large(r) scale collaboration (i.e. 100 or 10,000 users)?

I find folders work okay for myself and maybe up to 5 people but as the number of documents and collaborators goes higher than that it seems like it'd be really frustrating.

Unless the "search" is significantly better for business users.

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Post by freehunter » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 7:30 PM UTC

Kiro wrote: post #3

Why is the blog https?

Everything should be https.

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Post by alexmunroe » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 9:10 PM UTC

jmathai wrote: post #8

Do many folks here use Dropbox for large(r) scale collaboration (i.e. 100 or 10,000 users)? I find folders work okay for myself and maybe up to 5 people but as the number of documents and collaborators goes higher than that it seems like it'd be really frustrating. Unless the "search" is significantly better for business users.

I use it for an org with anywhere between 25 and 50 using it at any one time, assuming that you spend a bit of time organizing the folder structure at the beginning it's not a major issue but it does require staff discipline to keep it organized. It doesn't beat a dedicated Document Management system but it strikes a nice balance for working on frequently updated files.