Learn how to manage company data, team members, security, and more.

Business admin course

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Dropbox Business admin course

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Admins have the control to enable their Dropbox Business team with the right sharing permissions and instance configuration that works best for their team.

What does it mean to be an admin for Dropbox?

Dropbox Business admin features increase visibility and centralize control over all your organization's data. With smaller businesses, there’s typically only one admin to get the job done.

Admin for small businesses

Dropbox Business admin features increase visibility and centralize control over all your organization's data, no matter how many people use the software you manage.

Admin for large businesses

The admin console provides key insights into your team’s activities, as well as shortcuts to important and common admin actions. It allows you access to everything you need to do within Dropbox Business.

What can I do through the admin console?

Ready to set up your team’s Dropbox Business account? Get started with these steps.

How do I get started?

No matter how big your team is, as a Dropbox Business admin you have plenty of options for managing Dropbox access.

How do I control my team’s access to Dropbox?

As an admin, you don’t have to go it alone! Setting up admin access for others on your team is simple.

How do I set up admin access for others?

We know how important security is to you and your organization. That’s why Dropbox Business offers plenty of features to help keep your team’s Dropbox account safe.

What can I do to make my team’s account even more secure?

Customizing your team’s permissions is a great way to make the most of your Dropbox Business account.

How do I set team-wide permissions?

Dropbox Business makes keeping track of all your data easy. It’s designed to grant access to admins, while providing companies with the security they need.

How do I manage my organization's data?

While Dropbox concentrates on doing what we do extremely well, we also know that there are third parties who do what they do—extremely well. Rather than trying to build out every tool, we make it very easy to connect your Dropbox account with various third-party technology partners.

Using a third-party technology partner to visualize your usage data

Dropbox Business makes it easy for you to integrate your current identity management provider with your organization's Dropbox Business account—the best way to efficiently manage users and groups.

Integrating with your identity provider

There are endless possibilities to what you can do with Dropbox. The scripting community is made up of users, just like you, who use our API to create new Dropbox functionality, integrate applications, and extend Dropbox beyond our core web, mobile, and desktop apps.

Connecting to our scripting community

The team at a small engineering firm has just started using Dropbox Business, and they’re hoping it’ll be an easy transition from their old system.

Life of an admin at a small business

The team at a large marketing and sales firm has just started using Dropbox Business. Aniela, the IT manager, is hoping Dropbox Business will help make her hectic job a little more manageable.

Life of an admin at a large business

A large design firm has just started using Dropbox Business, and they’re hoping to connect the tools they use every day and get the most out of Dropbox.

Using Dropbox to automate business processes

A small design firm has used Dropbox Business for a few years now, and they love the way it helps them stay organized and in-sync, both internally and externally. But now, one of their team members has lost his phone with the current designs for a new client, and the team needs to figure out how to handle the situation.

Problem solving scenario 1: Team member’s phone, computer, or tablet goes missing

A small design firm has used Dropbox Business for a few years now, and they love the way it helps them stay organized and collaborate with team members and clients. The company started out with less than 20 people, but as their team expands and they find themselves hiring more and more, they need an efficient way to add new people.

Problem solving scenario 2: New team member

The team at a small design firm has used Dropbox Business for a few years now, and they love the way it helps them stay organized and collaborate with other team members and clients. A member of their team will be leaving them, but with Dropbox Business, they know that the transition will be smooth.

Life of an admin at a small business

The team at a small engineering firm has just started using Dropbox Business, and they’re hoping it’ll be an easy transition from their old system.

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