Admin Forum

Hello,I am the Senior Manager of Data at a small non-profit. We use Box extensively to collect sensitive and personal information from external collaborators. Some of these collaborators have raised concerns about our IT Manager having access to all of the folders we use. We are using a “closed” folder structure where our IT Manager created the top-level folders so the waterfall permissions fall down to the lowest levels.Is there any way our administrator could continue to see the folder structure but not the actual files in the folders?Thank you!

I currently have an unlimited account and share folders with collaborators. One collaborator is trying to upload data to a shared folder but is receiving an error that there is not enough storage space. I don’t understand why they would receive this error given that we both have unlimited BOX accounts. Can you help me determine the cause of this and suggest a way to increase the storage space.

It has long been an annoyance to me that new Box functionality and tools do not include standardised functions such as column sorting and filtering across all parts of the screens.   Instead, they are currently selectively added (if requested/thought of by the developers), or added and displayed in a way that contradicts or is different to similar/same functionality elsewhere. 

Just upgraded to paid account and cannot initiate a new signature request. I hadn’t reached my 5 limit before upgrading. 

I am trying to make a user a co-admin in our Box sandbox and I am getting an error about Domains for email addresses.  I then tried to add our domain and got an error to contact support.  Please help.  Warm Regards,Jennifer Knights

Do other Box co-admins/companies wish that Box would add new functionality to Box Pulse itself - search result sorting and filtering by time period - to cut throuigh all the 'old tat' for example?

Some of our users are not able to search for a new user. When you add the email, which has same domain as all the other users, there is a message at the bottom that states content being shared with external collaborators. Why this behavior? thanks

Hello,I keep getting an error when trying to add an external email to a hub as an editor… The global setting for external collab restriction is off as is the setting for the hub.I have also tried adding the email to the folder as an editor and then the hub with no luck.

we have the $15 business plan. I am the admin and I have MFA on my account. There doesn’t seem to be an option for my other collaborators to setup MFA on their accounts.Is this is a limitation of the subscription level? Or, is there somewhere that I have to enable it for them.

Hello, We have developed an application for Box, and many clients are using it.  Currently, the owner account of the application is tied to an individual member’s email address.   I would like to transfer the ownership to another account that uses our organization’s email address.  Could you please let me know how I can do this?   Best regards,

Hello, dumb question here as I cannot find just a straight simple answer on this.I am the Box Admin for our organization and I have a managed user that needs their 2FA settings reset due to getting new phone. How can I, as an Admin, reset this user’s 2FA settings so that they can re-register upon login?Do they really need to enter a separate with with the official Box Support? Thank you, A Box Admin

Dear all, I am an admin to a business plus account.I was wondering where can we see the activity per person? As a co-owner I would like to see a specific person’s activity on the platform. I can now only see a grouped activity of a folder and without the details of the different collaborators.Secondly, who can exactly see the collaborator’s activity? I have granted a co-owner access to a person outside of the company and she is not able to see the activity or run the reports. Is that correct?Thank you for your help,Ewa

Hi - i am trying to cancel my account and it keeps throwing up the attached error message. Have tried clearing cache, different browsers, etc………. 

My employee originally set up the Box Account. I need to change the Admin user

Hello everyone,First time posting to the support forums, and looking forward to joining the community! BackgroundEach of our documents has statuses that we track using Metadata Templates in Box. There are multiple documents per project (module), each with their own Document Status (file-level metadata) and the overall module has its own status as well (folder-level metadata).   IssueThe issue at hand involves the file-level metadata, or in this case the Document Status. A few weeks ago, I noticed that some of our file-level metadata was missing. At first, I thought I had simply forgotten to set the metadata for these particular documents, but then I began to notice a pattern. One of our users prefers editing documents using the desktop version of MS Word.  When this user saves their work on their desktop instance of MS Word, I receive a notification that New items were added to <folder name>. Upon reviewing these documents, I discovered that the file-level metadata (Document Stat

Hi, I’m trying to make myself the owner of several folders. The previous owner has left the company. I am an Admin.Here’s what I tried: Login as the current owner via the Admin portal. I changed myself to the owner, but received the error ‘The new owner’s account does not have enough space for the transfer’, but I have unlimited storage. Under user settings I have confirmed that there is no limit set for users. My account is using 20.9 GB. Could someone please assist? Thanks.

We believe that a large number of email addresses are currently on the suppression list, and we would like to delete them via the Enterprise settings.However, the feature description states, "You can remove up to 10 emails per day from this list."Is there no way to delete more than 10 addresses at once? If there are 1,000 entries in the list, it would take 100 days to complete. The background is as follows: Users are being created via SCIM integration with Okta At the start of the new fiscal year, around 1,000 new users were created Before their mailboxes were created, user information was registered in Okta, resulting in account creation in Box as well As a result, it is assumed that all users have ended up on the suppression list   現在大量のメールアドレスが抑制リストに入っていると考えられる状況で、Enterprise設定からの削除を実施したいと考えています。しかし、機能説明の中で「このリストから1日に最大10件のメールアドレスを削除できます。」とあります。10件以上を一括で削除する方法は無いのでしょうか。リストに1000件いるとすると、100日かかってしまいます。経緯としては以下のとおりです。・OktaとSCIM連携によりユーザー作成している・新年度開始で新規ユーザーが1000件ほど作成された・メールボックスが作成される

When I try to verify our domain from the admin console, I got the alert shown in the attached image, and the process failed. The alert message gives no indication of the cause. What should I do to resolve this issue?  

I am one of the users on the Box Enterprise account. I am currently listed as an Admin, but I need Primary Adminaccess to authorise a custom JWT app.There is no other admin on the account, so please help me switch my roleto Primary Admin

I need some assistance and am stymied so far. I have been sharing folders with a co worker. Now I want to add them as an authorized user. The system will not allow it. Please advise

How do I contact the Account Manager to request for support with enabling Box Doc Gen?

My company has undergone a name change and rebranding.  We continue to do business under the same Federal and State Id's but I need to change the name and domain with Box.  I also want to change the name on my account. Please advise

URGENT!! I cannot add users to my  data site:  

I`d appriciate it if you tell me how I can activate “Enterprise plan” for my collegues. I just payed for three users including mine, thinking let my two collegues who have free accounts use as well, but I have no idea to do it. It seems I have successed to get my account upgraded to the plan though.I know this is the very basic question but we all just started using BOX and are not used to it. Please tell me if this isn`t a proper way to asking this kind of question.

The Desktop team at Box is excited to share a private beta opportunity to give Box Drive macOS users the ability to store the Box folder on an external drive, allowing users to work on large files or a large volume of files and folders without being limited by their machine’s local disk space. We’re looking for 5-8 organizations that would be willing to test and validate this capability across a wide set of workflows and external drives. If you’re interested in participating, please reach out box-drive-external-drive-beta@box.com to let us know. Check out our FAQs and comment below if you have any additional questions about the private beta program.