Drop box to SharePoint online migration without using third party tools - sharepoint

I want to migrate my client's environment from drop box to SharePoint Online without using third party tools.
Can somebody guide me through the free tools that are available and also which other approaches exist.
I tried using Migration Manager creating drobox account however I am getting below error.

Just to clarify upon your issue, I opened up a free account in DropBox and I tried to create a connection within the Migration Manager Service, as it is described in the documentation.
I also got the error that you had:
Based on which I believe that it is required of you to have purchased an Enterprise Dropbox Account and that the free edition of DropBox is not supported, since you need an account that will be Dropbox administrator account to link with your Microsoft 365 migration.
As an alternative you could sync the DropBox Account Contents onto a File Storage and set up a Migrations Manager File Share Connection in order to upload all of the contents.

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sharing an office add-in to the client

I have created an office add-in within visual studio code, I have published it on my Azure Storage Account, and via Centralyzed Deployment I've managed to install it for some users. The problem is that this add-in must be used by some clients, and there is no possibility that they'll use the addin stored in my azure account, and there is no possibility that they will create an account for me on their organization, in order for me to push data directly on their organization's azure account.
So what are the options? I need a solution where i send the office add-in as a zip or something like that, and the company's admin can easily upload that to its Azure account, and the manifest will point to their location. I've seen the possibility of downloading the addin from azure via ftp (without success yet), I imagine if i download that, there might be an option to upload for the client's company admin. Or am I on a wrong track?
many thanks!

Is it possible to download from my MSDN Subcription directly to my Azure File storage without an Azure VM?

I have an MSDN Subcription which allows me to download and install various Microsoft products.
I would like to download from there the Sql Server 2016 Developer edition. But for the reasons that are irrelevant for this question, I would like to keep the downloaded ISO file not on the local machine, but on an Azure File share I have in my Azure account.
Right now, I first download from MSDN to my machine and then upload to the Azure File Storage.
Wasteful, it would be much more efficient if I could somehow download it directly to Azure Files from MSDN.
I understand that if I had an Azure VM, that would be possible. But I do not. So, I am wondering if it is possible to do it anyway without an Azure VM.
Part answer to your problem.
If the URL of the file you're trying to use (ISO for SQL Server 2016 Developer edition in your case) is public (i.e. if you paste the URL in browser's address bar for example, you should be able to access that file), then you don't have to download/reupload. Azure Storage provides asynchronous server-side copy functionality where a file can be created by copying from a publicly accessible resource.
For more about copy file, please see this link. Since you didn't mention any programming language, I provided reference to REST API. But you can simply use one of the available SDKs to accomplish this.
The reason I said part answer is because I don't know how you will access the link of the file programmatically.

How to add user to VSTS Group visualstudio.com

I need to add a colleague to my development environment (specifically VisualStudioOnline - TFS) and the doc I've read about how to do this shows differently than what I see when I try.
I am the only user of Visual Studio 2012 in my small company. I am using Visual Studio Online for Source Control (as I understand it, this exposes Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Service - Version 15.115.26417.0 as a "service" (i.e. this is the cloud...there is no on-premise TFS installed). Currently, I am using a LOCAL workspace (the default) and TFVC (not GIT).
I added my NewUserA to the Administrators group on the dev server. When click menu item Team to Connect to TFS, I am prompted to sign-in with my "Microsoft" account.
However, when I try to add NewUserA to my TFS, the dialog below seems unable to search for the existence of NewUserA:
It seems to want an "identity" of NewUserA (which suggests an email address too) so it sort of makes sense that this prompt does not look for locally added Windows users.
I am quite confused and would appreciate being helped thru this.
If your VSTS account isn't connected to Azure Active Directory and you're not synchronizing your on-premises AD to AAD, then of course it won't be able to find users from your on-prem domain. If that's the case, you can add users by email address and they'll be prompted to sign up for a Microsoft account (if they don't already have one) using that address. This is different than an organizational account, which is what you'd use if you were connected to Azure AD.

Azure Tools for VS - can't sign in to subscription

I'm having a pretty strange issue with Azure tools for VS 2013 (version 2.6). Whenever I try to sign in to my Azure subscription (e.g. from Server explorer or creating a new web role project) I get the following error:
Server Explorer
An error occurred during the sign in process: User 'foo#gmail.com' returned by service does not match user 'bar#outlook.com' in the request
OK
My subscription owned by 'bar#outlook.com' and I can perfectly fine sign in either to management portal in a browser (IE, Spartan and Chrome) - as well as in the Power Shell. Tried everything - cleaning up browser caches/cookies, resetting IE settings, playing with different IE security settings - nothign works.
Any help is appreciated - this issue drives me crazy.
P.S. I'm on Windows 10...
I had the same problem. Imported the certificate manually and everything worked ok: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/9cdafeb4-f459-436d-b2b8-9bc5c01f0df1/azure-tools-for-vs-cant-sign-in-to-subscription?forum=windowsazuredevelopment
I had this issue, to resolve it I:
Added 'foo#gmail.com' as an alias in my 'bar#outlook.com' Microsoft account, via account.live.com
Made the 'foo#gmail.com' email address the primary alias for my Microsoft account
I could then log in successfully in to Azure by pressing the Connect to Microsoft Azure button in the toolbar of the Server Explorer in Visual Studio 2013 and see all of my websites under the App Service node.
(When I'd used the certificate method described in the other post and Microsoft documentation I'd been able to see all my sql databases etc. but not the websites.)
Once I'd done all that I then switched my primary alias back to 'bar#outlook.com' and server explorer carried on working.
NB: If you're experimenting with this beware that there is a limit on how many times you can switch your primary.. as I have just discovered.. and now my primary is stuck on the wrong email address for a week.
NB2: If your connecting in order to be able to remote debug the website, then this can still be done by going to Visual Studio>Main Menu>Debug>Attach To Process, and then enter the URL of the site (without the http bit, e.g. mysite.azurewebsites.net) as the Qualifier and then attach to the w3wp.exe process.
I am having the exact same issue. It seems that the Azure sign-in in Visual Studio is redirecting to our organizational Single Sign-On instead of the Microsoft one. I have managed to work around this problem by using a Microsoft account that is not tied to my organization:
Create new Microsoft account or use an existing account not associated with your organization
In https://manage.windowsazure.com select Subscriptions/Manage Administrators
Choose Add+ and add the new Microsoft account as administrator to your subscription
Log on to Azure using the new account from Visual Studio
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I changed my Microsoft account's email address and had this problem. Adding an alias did not help.
The problem is to do with the Azure Active Directory Library for DotNet. For whatever dumb reason, they throw an exception when Azure returns an ID different than the one requested (if the server isn't crying about it, why make up an error and make the client deal with it?).
Since Azures's support was no help, I had to build a custom copy of the ADAL with that moronic exception removed and an assembly version matching the one used in VS2013 (2.11). Also importantly, disable strong name verification for the custom assembly.

Second FTP account for file accessing not possible, is there a workaround?

I am trying to give a designer access to specific folders within an Azure website I have. I would like for the designer to have access via FTP. However, according to this post, having multiple FTP user accounts on the same Azure website is not possible and the accepted answer suggests coming up with a "different way to manage" the website. This means that if you want collaboration on an Azure website, you have to share the entire directory structure. Please correct me if I am wrong.
I know you can download the Publish Profile settings from Azure as seen on this post. This does not solve the issue as the publish profile simple gives you the FTP credentials for a specific website (instead of all of your Azure websites) but still does not provide the option to create new FTP users with limited directory permissions.
So, my question is: is there some way to edit the Publish Profile settings when they are downloaded so folder access is limited? If not, what methods have you used for website development collaboration on Azure where certain folders should be hidden and protected?
For collaborative work with Azure Websites, you can enable source control. This includes tfs, git, dropbox, bitbucket, and codeplex. Dropbox is not the best collaborative tool, as it's not designed to be a version control system, but it's very convenient.
If you have a repository with any of the abovementioned providers, you can now give your designer their own account with the version control system.
You guys are right about using a source control system like GitHub instead of trying to provide access by creating a second FTP user.
Others have asked this question - not in the context of azure though.
This post talks about using submodules on github to give a contractor access to a subfolder and all folders / files under that sub folder.
SO - I believe linking azure to github would be necessary and then from there, creating and managing submodules from github would allow for collaboration. I believe a required aspect of this would be to have a private repo on github for the main repo. All of the files in the repo would otherwise be available for forking which would defeat the entire purpose of maintaining some discretion on access rights in the first place.

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