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#Dropbox for business limits full#

#Dropbox for business limits full#

This may present a difficult tradeoff between full control over data and users and paying a much higher price point. It appears that Dropbox is betting that businesses will be willing to pay an additional $10 per user per month (a total of $25 per user per month) to get access to advanced management and control features.

Dropbox, alone, may not fully preserve critical business data

This means that companies using Dropbox as their primary file storage will only be able to restore files that were deleted or overwritten within the last 4 months. Whereas Dropbox used to offer unlimited file version history, they’ve now throttled it to 120 days across all plans (although current customers can opt in to retain unlimited version history).

Sign In As User – allows administrators to sign in to an end user’s Dropbox accountĪnother important change is the introduction of limits on how long files versions are retained.

Tiered Administrator Roles – multiple administrator roles with different permissions.

Features now only available in the Advanced $25 per user per month plan include: However, key administrative management features were moved out of the Standard plan to a new and more costly Advanced plan. The Dropbox for Business plan has been renamed the Standard plan and is priced the same ($15 per user per month for a month-to-month contract). Key Dropbox management features moved to higher-end plans Companies using or considering Dropbox should take note that these changes will make it more expensive to manage and control their employees’ sharing activities and will limit the ability to preserve critical business data stored on the service.

At the same time, they updated their plans and pricing, moving several features designed to help businesses administer file sharing to more costly plans. A few weeks ago, Dropbox® announced two new features for its file sync and share service: Paper, a document collaboration tool and Smart Sync, a file access service.