How to configure your team’s desktop with GPO
This feature is for admins of Dropbox teams who use the Group Policy Object (GPO) feature with Microsoft Active Directory to manage their team’s IT.
Admins of Dropbox teams can configure their team members’ Dropbox desktop app preferences remotely using GPO. They can choose to configure preferences for individual team members, groups of team members, or whole teams.
To configure these preferences, download these .admx and .adml file templates from GitHub or refer to the tables below. The root directory for all preferences is “HKCU\SOFTWARE\Policies\Dropbox”.
How to configure general preferences
Admins can configure general preferences for their team using the key “HKCU\SOFTWARE\Policies\Dropbox\General”.
| Preference setting | Registry name | Option | Value |
| Start Dropbox on system startup | StartDropboxOnSystemStartup | Enabled | 1 (Default) |
| Disabled | 0 | ||
| Dropbox Badge | DropboxBadge | Always show | 1 (Default) |
| If others present | 2 | ||
| Never show | 0 | ||
| Open folders in | OpenFoldersIn | File Explorer | 0 |
| Dropbox desktop app | 1 (Default) |
Notes:
- The following preference settings can only be configured by the team member:
- Open the desktop app when starting Dropbox
- Language
- Teams with Microsoft co-authoring enabled won’t be able to use Dropbox Badge. Learn more about co-authoring.
How to configure network preferences
Admins can configure LAN sync preferences for their team using the key “HKCU\SOFTWARE\Policies\Dropbox\Bandwidth”.
| Preference setting | Registry name | Option | Value |
| Enable LAN Sync | EnableLANSync | Enabled | 1 |
| Disabled | 0 |
Admins can configure bandwidth preferences for their team using the key “HKCU\SOFTWARE\Policies\Dropbox\Bandwidth”.
| Preference setting | Registry name | Option | Value |
| Download rate | DownloadRate | Don't limit | 2 |
| DownloadRateKBs | Limit to (KB/s) | DWORD | |
| Upload rate | UploadRate | Don't limit | 2 |
| UploadRateKBs | Limit to (KB/s) | DWORD | |
| Limit automatically | 1 |
Admins can configure proxy preferences for their team using the key “HKCU\SOFTWARE\Policies\Dropbox\Proxies”.
| Preference setting | Registry name | Option | Value |
| Proxy settings | ProxyMode | No proxy | 0 |
| Auto-detect | 1 (Default) | ||
| Manual | 2 | ||
| Proxy type | ProxyType | HTTP | HTTP |
| SOCKS4 | SOCKS4 | ||
| SOCKS5 | SOCKS5 | ||
| Server | ProxyServer | [Name of the proxy server] | <none> |
| Port | ProxyPort | [Proxy server port number] | 8080 (Default) |
| Proxy server requires password | ProxyServerRequiresPassword | Enable | 1 |
| Disable | 0 (Default) | ||
| Username | Username | [Username of proxy server] | STRING |
| Password | Password | [Password of proxy server] | STRING |
How to configure locking preferences
Admins can configure locking preferences to choose if team members can override their admin’s preferences.
| Preference setting | Registry name | Option | Value |
| Locked setting | LockedSetting | Locked (Preference can’t be overridden by the team member. It’s grayed out in their app preferences.) | 1 |
| Unlocked (Preference can be overridden by the team member and is available in their app preferences.) | 0 |
Configure update preferences
Admins can set team members’ desktop apps to reread the registry values and update their preferences at specific time intervals.
| Preference setting | Registry name | Option | Value |
| Interval setting | SettingsPollInterval | Time (in seconds) |
DWORD (Default = 3600) |
