Dropbox now has more than 200 million users, and companies like have been testing the new features. There is also an account transfer feature. Files and folders can be moved all at once, and their sharing relationships and settings remain intact.Īll of these updates are scheduled to go live in January, Fushman said, but current Dropbox for Business customers can request access to them now. The progress of a remote wipe can be tracked to make sure the data is fully removed. Additionally, admins and team members will now have the option to remotely wipe a folder from a particular device if it is lost or stolen, for example.Īdmins also have a new the option to remotely wipe devices connected to a particular user - a convenience when someone leaves a team or company. This feature will allow that, Fushman said. Many admins like to plug these logs into auditing tools like Splunk to track activity at a deeper level. One is the ability to share audit logs, and that means upgraded viewing of who has been doing what with particular documents, files and even shared links. Once that was done, other updates could be included in the same release. Same location for business and personal files.ĭropbox had to rebuild parts of its infrastructure including notifications, file separation and settings to accommodate multiple containers in one Dropbox, Fushman said.
"We talked to hundreds of businesses about what they wanted, and this was a popular situation," Ilya Fushman, Dropbox head of product, business and mobile said in an interview. "People often had a personal Dropbox before they had Dropbox for Business, and we wanted to create the user interface (UI) that let them access both." Now, they're in the same place, but clearly delineated with separate files, settings, contacts and passwords. Before this update, personal files could be added to a business account, of course, but they were simply thrown into the same pot, as it were.
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