Centralized Administration and Billing: Hard to get too excited about, but it’s certainly important, since you’ll be managing multiple licenses and access to folders for a number of users.They do so by adding the following features on top of the familiar benefits of personal Dropbox accounts: Or perhaps you have multiple locations at your company where the employees need to share files from a single file server? Well for one, it’s hella slow so your pimpin’ IT guy says easy, I’ll just enable DFS file replication right? Wrong – Microsoft in their brilliance forgot to add file conflict resolution or collision… and that’s where Dropbox for Teams comes in! Dropbox for TeamsĬombines the synchronization, sharing, and security features of traditional Dropbox with new administrative and group capabilities that make it perfect for businesses. Even with all that, don’t ya love it when you try to open a document and it says “ Sorry, this file is in use… Would you like to open in read only mode?” How many mass emails have you seen where people are asking who the hell has CLIENTS.XLSX open, and could they PLEASE close it so vital changes can be saved ( and how many times has that person been out to lunch)? And if you’re really groovy, you might be using Microsoft DFS to virtualize the share naming space. With today’s strategy, unless you want to spend a bazillion dollars with EMC or some other storage vendor, your business / company is probably using Windows File Sharing. Immediately my head started to spin thinking about all the practical legacy “IT GUY” applications Dropbox could bring to the small, medium and large businesses including the Corporate environment. Business Problems Solved with Dropbox Teams Read the updated Dropbox for Teams review to get the scoop. Update: This review is old! We’ve since taken another look at Dropbox for Teams new features, including more storage, Active Directory integration and phone support.

So you can imagine my excitement this morning MrGroove shot me an email outlining his “discovery” that Dropbox is now offering Dropbox Teams for the business as an early access release. If you read groovyPost with any degree of regularity, you already know that we’re huge huge fans of Dropbox-we all use it personally and collaboratively and it works like a dream.

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