Enable users to access Box repository using a custom Box email address

On the Home screen of the computer hosting BEMS, complete one of the following actions:

Attributes

Task
The Box email address matches one of the following Microsoft Active Directory attributes:
  • mail
  • userPrincipalName
  • proxyAddresses
  • targetAddress

No action is required.

The Box email address matches a Microsoft Active Directory attribute other than the attributes listed above.

Set the config value, LDAPUserCheckAttribute, to specify the Microsoft Active Directory attribute that contains the custom Box email address.

  1. On the computer hosting BEMS, open a command prompt and navigate to the client.bat file. By default, the file is located at <drive>:\Program Files\BlackBerry\BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server\Good Server Distribution\gems-quickstart-<version>\bin.
  2. Type client.bat -u domain name\username. Press Enter.
    • Where domain name is the name of the domain BEMS is located in.
    • Where username is the name of an administrator account on BEMS.
  3. Type the password for the BEMS user account. Press Enter.
  4. Set the LDAPUserCheckAttribute. Type docs:config Config-Name Config-Value.
    • Where Config-Name is LDAPUserCheckAttribute.
    • Where Config-Value is the name of the Microsoft Active Directory attribute you want to add. For example, BoxLogin.
  5. Optionally, confirm the Config-Value is set. Type docs:config Config-Name

The Box email address does not match any Microsoft Active Directory attribute.

Complete one of the following tasks:

  • Add an attribute to contain the Box email address and use the previous configuration. See the instructions above.
  • Enable the EnablePersonalBoxAccess config value to allow users to use personal Box email addresses without adding an attribute.
    Note: If you use this method to allow users to use custom Box email addresses to access Box, users can copy documents from your organization's network to their private Box accounts.
    1. On the computer hosting BEMS, open a command prompt and navigate to the client.bat file. By default, the file is located at <drive>:\Program Files\BlackBerry\BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Server\Good Server Distribution\gems-quickstart-<version>\bin.
    2. Type client.bat -u domain name\username. Press Enter.
    3. Type the password for the BEMS administrator account. Press Enter.
    4. Set the EnablePersonalBoxAccess to 1 to enable the attribute. Type docs:config EnablePersonalBoxAccess 1.
    5. Optionally, confirm EnablePersonalBoxAccess is enabled. Type docs:config EnablePersonalBoxAccess.