UPDATE 12.18.2012
A somewhat minor update, I have now added support for Box.net and Google Drive clients, same functionality as before (path, directory created date and the size of the directory). I have also taken the excellent advice offered previously and exported the data classes for each custom inventory so that the scripts do not need to be modified at all.
Many folks, including myself, are avid users of Dropbox for syncing my personal files between my computers and mobile devices. While it is definitely a great service, it is also a legitimate security concern with respect to corporate data being synced to "the cloud". In order to hopefully gain some insight into how prevalent Dropbox is in your environment, I have created a report and two scripts to run a custom inventory on both Mac and Windows Computers. The script essentially populates 3 custom data-classes; the Directory Path of dropbox, the Directory Size and the Last Modified date (which still needs a little bit of fine-tuning). Before getting right to it, here are a few caveats/instructions that need to be taken into account:
Couple of planned enhancements are:
Of course feel free to send over any changes/fixes or requests as well.
The attached ZIP file should contain the following:
Data classes for Dropbox, Box.net & Google Drive (importable XML)
Scripts for Dropbox, Box.net & Google Drive - both Mac and Windows (importable XML)
Reports for Dropbox, Box.net & Google Drive (importable XML)
Excellent point, and upon doing some testing for a Box.net custom inventory rule I need to make some changes. I will role that up and post in a few days.
Great suggestion - I'll investigate what it would take to pull that information and see how viable it is.
Pretty Cool!
Enhancement request - it would be good to differentiate between what is shared and what is not shared. Possibly based on that we could have additional tasks to purge dated files that are not shared.