We're done configuring Box Drive as a Windows Service so click the Save button to record your settings. Has started Box Drive, these settings empower AlwaysUp to terminate that other copy before firing up its instance as a service. This lets AlwaysUp know that Box Drive needs TCP/IP networking support to operate.Ĭheck the Stop all copies of the application and Stop all copies of the application boxes. If you stick with the system account, Drive will come up "blank" and won't synchronize any files.Īctivate the Ensure that the Windows Networking components have started option. Note: You must specify an account here or else Box Drive will not be able to find your saved login information (for box.com) Move to the Logon tab and enter the user name and password of the account in which you installed and configured Box Drive.
This will make AlwaysUp start Box Drive about 2-3 minutes after your computer boots - to give all important/supporting services If you installed Box Drive in the default location, this is:Īnd in the Start the application field, select Automatically, but shortly after the computer boots. In the Application field, enter the full path to the Box Drive executable, Box.exe. We put in Box Drive but you can specify another name if you like. In the Name field, enter the name that you will call the application in AlwaysUp. Select Application > Add to open the Add Application window: If Box Drive doesn't work now, it will not function as a service either!ĭownload and install AlwaysUp, if necessary. Please confirm that Box Drive is synchronizing your files and that you can open them normally. Install and configure Box Drive for Windows, if necessary.
To setup Box Drive to start at boot with AlwaysUp: Please get in touch with our support team if you have any questions. Until Box fixes the problem, the only option for running Box automatically at boot is to configure automatic logon and launch Box in a "regular" user session. Will not start in the background in Session 0.īut so far they have declined to provide a solution.
vbs wrapper to run it silently (hidden windows).ZIP download: configureBoxRedirection_v1.02.zip I used Advanced Installer to wrap this in an MSI for easy deployment through Intune, and would like to share this with you 🙂
If it has, it redirects My Documents, and copies any existing content from it to Box. This script checks if Box has been configured, if not it throws a little popup to the user. To encourage their users to actually save data to Box instead of Onedrive or locally, I wrote a little Powershell script (since Intune native PS script deployment isn’t live yet). They’re using Azure AD, but opted out of Onedrive for Business and are using Box Drive instead. One of my customers is doing a full cloud-only pilot of Windows 10, Mobile (MDM) managed through Intune to leverage a least-infrastructure solution worldwide.
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