3 steps to Add or Edit a Box connection

3 steps to Add or Edit a Box connection

Suppose you want to move your organization’s data, such as email, calendar, contacts, folders, files, and permissions, to Google Workspace use the steps. Follow the steps given to Migrate the data to google workspace. You can migrate data from Box with Google Workspace Migrate. The box is a content management platform where different type of data is stored in the cloud platform. One can store the data in the cloud-based platform. You can migrate the data in the box platform to the Google Workspace. Here, steps are given to 3 steps to Add or Edit a Box connection.

Steps to migrate data from the box to GSuite

1. Set up a Box connection
2. Create & run a scan
3. Set up the target connection
4. Set up your migration
5. Run a migration

Supported editions for the data migration is Box Enterprise.

You should have a box administrator account with Full access and control rights over the entire box.com environment.

Permissions you need to migrate data: The ability to grant the Google Workspace Migrate platform API access rights to the box.com administrator account.

Add or edit a Box connection

How to set up a Box connection?

Setting up the box connection is the first step in migrating data. There are four steps involved in setting up a box connection.

1) Add or edit a Box Connection.

2) Create a sharding user list.

3) Create a scoped view.

4) Verify the box connection.

Steps to create your Box application

1. Go to the Box developer console and click Create New App.
2. You might need to sign in to your Box enterprise account first.
3. Click Custom App.
4. Click Server Authentication (with JWT) and in for App Name, enter a name.
5. Click Create App.
6. After it’s created, click View Your App.
7. You’re redirected to your app’s Configuration page.

Make the following changes on the app Configuration page:

1. For App Access Level, select App + Enterprise Access.
2. For Application Scopes, uncheck Manage Groups and Manage Enterprise properties.
3. You should have 3 application scopes checked—Read all files and folders stored in Box, Write all files and folders stored in Box, and Manage users.
4. For Advanced Features, check Make API calls using the as-user header.
5. Click Generate a Public/Private Key pair to add and Manage Public Keys.

(A JSON configuration file with your app settings, including the only copy of your private key, is automatically downloaded to your machine. Store this file securely as you need it to configure the Box connection in Google Workspace Migrate)

• To download this file, you might need to turn on 2-Step Verification on your Box enterprise account.
• For OAuth 2.0 Credentials (near the top of the page), copy the Client ID.
• Click save changes.

Steps to authorize your Box application

Authenticate the box enterprise account Source connection is added first to allow Google Workspace Migrate to read and transfer data from the box platform to google workspace.

1. Go to the Apps tab in the Box Admin Console.
2. Click Custom Apps Manager & Add App.
3. For Client ID, enter the client ID copied from the Configuration page, then click Next.
4. On the confirmation dialog, under for the following users, make sure it authorizes access for All Users.
5. Click Authorize.
6. A new app appears under Custom Applications.

How do we add a source connection for Box?

In the Google Workspace Migrate platform,

1. Click New > Connection.
2. For Name, enter a connection name.
3. For Type, select Box.
4. For Account, choose an option:
5. Select a Box enterprise admin account.
6. Click Add New Account and upload the JSON configuration file previously downloaded from your app’s configuration page on Box.
7. Doing so allows Google Workspace Migrate to access the Box APIs using the App configured above.
8. Click Create.

Edit a connection

1. In the Google Workspace Migrate platform, click Connections. You might have to click Menu > first.
2. Point to the connection and click More > Edit.
3. Enter your changes and click Save.

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