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I have a question about Azure AD and Dropbox. Can you help?
Hey there,
Has anyone tried connecting Azure AD to Dropbox? Does it provision groups? The instructions only mention about provisioning users https://www.dropbox.com/help/business/microsoft-azur...
Walter
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey there mxoh - thanks for posting your question here.
While on the setup process, admins can choose if they'd like to sync AD groups to Dropbox. Meaning that those AD groups would be created as Dropbox groups and have the users added to it. The admin can select whether they’d like to use the same AD group (earlier chosen to sync users e.g. "Dropbox") to also sync their groups. An alternative group can be selected to sync groups e.g. "Dropbox-Groups" essentially meaning you manage your users through one group "Dropbox" and your groups through another group "Dropbox-Groups".
Moreover, when the AD connector runs, it checks the configured AD sync group and compares it to Dropbox, then does one of the following group actions:
1. Creates Dropbox group(s) if the group doesn’t exist in Dropbox already
2. Add members to groups, if applicable (only if users are also in their respective group of users that will sync).
Additionally, have in mind that changes from Dropbox Business will not sync back to Active Directory. Once created, deleting a group from Active Directory will not delete the corresponding group from Dropbox Business. Instead, all users will be removed from the Dropbox group if either:
1. All members are removed from the sync group in Active Directory
2. The sync group e.g. "Dropbox-Groups" is removed from the Configuration step.
I hope this helps clear this up and please let me know if you have any further questions.
Cheers!
- Thanks Walter
I have used the on-premise AD connector to sync groups before. For my qns, I am referring to using Azure AD to sync groups? Cause the instructions seems to only be for provisioning users.- Walter
I am sorry, are you trying to sync groups or just provision them using the Azure AD connector? Did you get the chance to review this page yet?
Let me know and we'll take it from there.
- I am just wondering if it is possible to sync groups with Azure AD and Dropbox referring to the instructions of Azure and Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/help/business/microsoft-azure-ad
The page you provided of the AD Connector is for on-premise AD right? I have done on-premise AD syncing of users and groups with Dropbox before. Now if I want to do it for Azure AD which should be a different set of instructions right?
