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PeteX
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2 years ago

Restricting the Dropbox desktop app to permitted (company) devices

I have dropbox business for our office and am trying to limit access/installation to company-issued devices. We don't want our employees to install and sync company dropbox account onto their own per...
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PeteX
New member | Level 1
2 years ago

The "device approval" section only dictates how many (quantity) of devices that one dropbox account can connect to. It doesn't let me specify what   devices.

It can only indirectly address the issue, because even if i specify ONE device, the employee can basically uninstall/disconnect dropbox from the work-issued computer, and then re-install/link onto another device. 

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