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Month: February 2019

Published on Leave a comment on Secure Folders: Store Business Data in Team Folders

Data security also involves ensuring any business data is always available to the business.  Personnel changes, sickness, or other events can leave important files in your Box account unavailable to your colleagues, and they may not realize that until they really need it!

We've developed Box Team Folders to give teams and organizations a place to keep data that needs to be resilient to changes in unit personnel or project team members.

Some college and departmental IT teams manage Team Folders for their users. Please contact your local IT team to find out more.

See Technology Services KB: Information and Requesting Shared Team Folders for more information.

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Published on 1 Comment on Secure Folders: Give Just Enough Permissions

The users you invite to collaborate need to upload, open, and edit files, but should they delete or share the content with others?  Choosing the right collaborator permissions can save your data from deletion and other scares.

Table showing different permissions granted to View Uploader and Editor permissions in Box. Recommendation is Viewer Uploader permission.
Viewer Uploader permissions provide most functions collaborators need.

Our recommended permission level for most folder collaborations is Viewer Uploader. See the table above for some ways Viewer Uploader differs from Editor permissions.

When collaborating on a file directly, as opposed to a folder, the only permission level available is Editor.

See Box Community: Inviting Collaborators to learn more about adding collaborators to your project or unit folders in Box.

For the full table of permission levels and the actions they can perform, see Box Community: Understanding Collaborator Permission Levels.

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Published on 1 Comment on Secure Folders: Name and Describe the Contents

The first things collaborators see is a folder's name. Include a reminder that this data is sensitive or only for a certain group in the folder's name to provide important context.

List of folders in Box Web with names that provide context
Folder names can give collaborators important context.

Including phrases like INTERNAL or PRIVATE give a clue that the contents should be handled carefully. EXTERNAL can mark folders shared with Box users outside of the university. Folders marked PUBLIC might be sent in email with an open Shared Link or embedded in a web page for anyone to access.

Screen capture of a folder description in Box Web describing the contents and audience of a folder.
A description can provide important context for your collaborators.

Adding a description of the folder or file contents can also provide clues to collaborators about how to handle the data. In the description, you can describe the intended audience and any restrictions on sharing.

See Box Community: Adding Descriptions to Folders and Files

Published on Leave a comment on MacOS 10.12 Sierra Support Ending April 30, 2019

After April 30, 2019, Box will end support for Box Sync, Box Tools, Notes for Desktop and Box Drive on MacOS 10.12 Sierra.  Per Box OS support policy, they will maintain support on the two latest versions of MacOS, 10.13 High Sierra and 10.14 Mojave.

Box Community: Understand the Box Policy For Browser And OS Support