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There are some "problems" with the way that Tufts manages departmental storage and Box handles file sharing. One of the chief issues is that Departmental shares are managed by people but unlike people the departmental share does not turn-over. In box, all content is owned by a single user and then shared out to groups, but ultimately is owned by a single user.In order to adopt Q drives, it becomes necessary to
Q Drives, however, do represent a rather large administrative burden both for the end users and technical staff. This is exacerbated by any requests that involve "nested" permissions (major folder is restricted by security group A and a subfolder is restricted by security group "B" with "block inheritence" enabled.)
It is strongly recommended to avoid nested permissions and instead provide opportunities to encourage point to point or subset document sharing to occur using tools with self-service permissions – such as Box.com