This article discusses a feature that is only available to Dropbox Business teams on an Enterprise plan.
Network control is a security and access feature available to Dropbox Business teams on an Enterprise plan. With this feature, IT admins can manage which Dropbox accounts can be used on their corporate network. Using your proxy or CASB vendor, you can specify which team member accounts can sign in and sync via dropbox.com or the Dropbox desktop app.
Network control is available exclusively to Enterprise teams. Admins can set up network control to help manage how members of their team access Dropbox.
To set up network control, contact the Dropbox account manager for your Enterprise account. They can give you early access to this feature and detailed instructions regarding the setup.
Once the Dropbox account manager for your Enterprise account has given you early access, follow these instructions to get started:
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Dropbox will now block traffic that's not associated with the correct Enterprise team.
Note: If the Dropbox desktop app doesn’t automatically update after enabling network control, add the following registry key with any value [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Dropbox\IgnoreUnknownRevocationErrors]. This registry key only works if network control is already enabled.
While there are many preferred proxy or cloud access security broker (CASB) providers, we have confirmed that the following will support Dropbox at this time:
If you are a member of an Enterprise team and you're having trouble accessing Dropbox, contact your company's IT help.
If you're not a member of an Enterprise team and you see the error Your company now manages Dropbox traffic, contact Dropbox support.