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mxoh
Collaborator | Level 10
7 years ago

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...
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  • Jane's avatar
    Jane
    7 years ago
    Thanks a lot for all the additional details mxoh, I'd happily follow-up with you on this question more closely! 
     
    So as to further address your inquiries in the best possible way (& since this may need to be addressed by a specialized colleague), I’ve made sure to reach out to you directly via email (on the email address connected to your Forum profile). 
     
    At your convenience, please check your inbox for my latest message and let me know here if you have any issues locating it. 
     
    Thanks again & I’ll be awaiting your next email, so as to move forward on the matter together. I'm wishing you a wonderful rest of your day ahead! 
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v-wasmit
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Did you ever fiind out how to provision groups in the Azure portal?  I have been working on this myself and it turns out when i navigate in the Azure Portal

Active Directory - Enterprise Applications - Dropbox - Provisioning - and scroll down to mapppings

We only see 1 link for provisioning users (and most applicaitons have 2 links )

Provision users

Provision Groups

 

 

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Walter
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7 years ago

Hey there v-wasmit - sorry to hear that.

 

Can you first make sure you're following these steps here to do this? To learn more about user provisioning with the AD Connector you can also refer to this page.

 

Having said that and as I'd really like to help with this, can you elaborate on what exactly is not working for you and maybe provide a screenshot so we can have a visual of this as well? 

 

Let me know what you find please!

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    A-CAST
    Explorer | Level 3
    5 years ago

    mxoh I believe I truly understand your question as I'm in a similar position as I'm also trying to figure some things out with setting up Dropbox for Business with AD.

     

    Although, this question was marked as solved, it doesn't really give the answer as it was probably given to you via direct email. On this post however, everyone that tried to help from Dropbox didn't understand your question.  I'm posting this for the benefit of those like me that didn't get that confirmation via a direct email.

     

    I found this article on Microsoft that explains it easily that yes Azure AD does support both users and groups:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/saas-apps/dropboxforbusiness-provisioning-tutorial

     

    The one thing I'm still hung up on is finding out if both AD Connector is needed or just Azure AD, because from everything I've read it seems there is an older way that's not going to be available as mentioned in the article and a new one via Azure AD. So, for the provisioning of users and groups and using SSO it seems Azure AD works for that without using AD Connector.

     

    From what I'm understanding and please correct me if I'm wrong anyone, the AD Connector says it's only used if we wish to sync groups not just users, but yet Azure AD says it can do both...this is where I'm stuck but I will be testing this soon and I'll eventually get my answer if I don't find it online first  :-)

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