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Dropbox stopped working on Windows Server 2008 R2 on 01/19.2018
Dropbox stopped working on Windows Server 2008 R2 on 01/19.2018. Is there any incompatibility with this system?
Does any version of windows server support? (2012, 2016?)
Dropbox has never officially supported server operating systems. It has worked in the past, but newer releases have had issues and you may not be able to get it working. You can try contacting Support by opening a ticket, but since they don't provide support for server operating systems, you may be on your own.
Open your ticket here: https://dropbox.com/support
Track your ticket here: https://dropbox.zendesk.com
Replies take approximately 1 - 3 business days with Plus and Professional users getting priority (longer for Basic users).
I have the same problem.
Dropbox has shut down access to Windows 2008 Server machines. They sent a notice August saying that they were shutting down Windows Vista access AND DID NOT MENTION Windows 2008 Server.
This must be entirely arbitrary, at least at this point, because it continued to work until January 23, one week after it supposedly wasn't supported anymore.
This is unacceptable.
- Mark
Super User II
It didnt mention it Bob because it officially has never actually worked on Dropbox - it was (and always has been) unsupported.
If it did work it was accidental.
www.dropbox.com/help/3 tells you what is, and what is not, supported. I have always used Dropbox on Windows Server, but now after what they did, as I will have to migrate to a newer version of windows, I will take advantage of it and migrate to Google Drive which is cheaper (it also only works in Windows 7 / 8/10). Tip: Install a virtual machine on your servers and run any version of the dropbox or google drive!
- Rich
thiagomf11 wrote:
I have always used Dropbox on Windows Server
It has worked in the past but was never officially supported. The fact that it has worked was likely due to the fact that previous server operating systems were based on the exact same technologies used in your desktop operating systems (XP, Windows 7, etc.). That's not so much the case anymore, and the dependencies that Dropbox has likely don't exist in Server 2008/12/16 anymore.
- Rich
Dropbox has never officially supported server operating systems. It has worked in the past, but newer releases have had issues and you may not be able to get it working. You can try contacting Support by opening a ticket, but since they don't provide support for server operating systems, you may be on your own.
Open your ticket here: https://dropbox.com/support
Track your ticket here: https://dropbox.zendesk.com
Replies take approximately 1 - 3 business days with Plus and Professional users getting priority (longer for Basic users). Hi,
I know Dropbox does not support Windows 2008 server and with it the older OS'ses.
But this older server is an excellent Cloud server and Dropbox worked flawlessly, until yesterday.
We have tried all available tricks, older version, login through Chrome, run as administrator etc.
Dropbox did a really good job in detecting all these tricks.
Please dropbox give us a working version, it might have less features, it might be very basic, i dont care. Please release a working older dropbox version.
If anbody has some tricks to get this running, please let me know, thanks a million
I have Installed Dropbox in Windows 2008 R2 Server.Since it was working fine but now its not working.Please advise how to solve this issue
- Rich
edp1 wrote:
I have Installed Dropbox in Windows 2008 R2 Server.Since it was working fine but now its not working.Please advise how to solve this issue
I have merged your post into another thread that answers this. Please refer to the two solutions posted at the top of this thread.
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