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Where path is the path to where instrv.exe and srvany.exe are located and Dropbox is the service we are about to create.Our team of technical specialists fields questions about Windows® Server every day.

Create a new DOS command prompt and run the following command path\instsrv.exe Dropbox path\srvany.exe.

By this we close the running Dropbox Client (no fear, we’re going to start it soon again).

Right click the Dropbox icon in your system tray and select Exit.

By this Dropbox doesn’t get run when you log in over RDP.

Remove the link to Dropbox.exe from the Startup folder.

In my case they already were on the server, more precisely in the C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\ folder. If these files are not on your server, you can download them. In order to run Dropbox as a Service, we can use instsrv.exe and srvany.exe, both tools provided by Microsoft ( published as part of the Resource Kits). Heck, if you want you can even run notepad as a service! Note: this guide - Abstracted from the MSFN forums - can be applied to any application. As an extra, files that are uploaded via the site will appear into dropbox-project, and thus dropbox-bramus too 🙂 The procedure By this the site will immediately be updated whenver I save a file in dropbox-bramus. The final step then would be to configure the webserver (IIS in this case) in such a manner that the Document Root of the site points to the Dropbox Folder. By this the server will always have the newest files whenever I save a new version on my computer.

The two Dropbox accounts, folder comparison.Īfter having shared the files I’d install the Dropbox Client onto the client’s server and configure it to connect to dropbox-project. The two Dropbox accounts, sharing 14MB in total.īy using the sharing functionality I’d also be keeping my personal files ( and files from other projects) private from dropbox-project (which is the whole idea behind the sharing feature, otherwise I’d just add the client his server as a computer that connects to dropbox-bramus) By that dropbox-project will always have the latest files from dropbox-bramus ( and vice versa)

Now, the idea I came up with was to create a new Dropbox account for the project ( from here on named dropbox-project) and share the folder containing the project’s web files of my Dropbox ( from here on named dropbox-bramus) with dropbox-project. RDP access is available to me ( only after establishing a VPN connection first) thus I basically have full access to the server. On that server, IIS is configured to serve several sites over HTTP and one Sharepoint Portal over HTTPS. It might be good to know that the current project I’m working on is from a client who has his own dedicated Windows2003 Server which I co-administer.