
Step 6: Migrate and Monitor After reviewing your migration setup, migrate your Dropbox accounts and monitor the progress. Step 5: Map identities Map your groups and users in Dropbox to an account in Microsoft 365 to migrate your Dropbox sharing settings. Ensure content is being copied to the right place by reviewing and modifying as needed for each destination path. Step 4: Review destination paths We automatically map source paths to any exactly matching destination paths. Step 3: Copy to Migrations list After Dropbox has been scanned and determined ready, add them to your migration list. Once the scans are complete, download the generated reports and logs to investigate any possible issues that might block your migration. Step 2: Scan and assess Dropbox accounts are scanned automatically for you. Sign in to your Dropbox administrator account to connect to your Microsoft 365 migration. To get unlimited linked devices, upgrade your Dropbox account.Collaborate all in one place by migrating your Dropbox documents, data, and users to OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams in Microsoft 365. If you’re a Basic user and you linked more than three devices prior to March 2019, all of your previously linked devices will remain linked, but you can’t link additional devices.
Notably, the move from the company encourages users to opt for a paid plan. However, further devices past three won’t be able to be added from this point on.
On the bright side, any free accounts that had more than three devices linked before this change can continue using all of them. Plus and Professional users can link unlimited devices.īusiness users can link unlimited devices, but Advanced and Enterprise Dropbox Business admins can limit the number of devices that their teams can link. However, along with the change there is a bit of good news for existing users.Īs reported by The Verge (via Liliputing) Dropbox quietly updated its terms for non-paid accounts:īasic users have a three device limit as of March 2019. Dropbox has today made a notable change for those using a free account, there is now a three-device limit.