Connect to Box.com – ShareGate Desktop

Command

Connect-Box

Description

The command to connect to a Box drive to import files from.

For admin connection, the ShareGate Desktop application must be authorized on your Box enterprise. See here for more informations.

Note: You will get prompted with a popup to authorize ShareGate Desktop to complete the connection.

Examples

Connect to a Box.com Drive using a Box.com user account email

Connect-Box -Email user@box.com

Connect to a Box drive using a Box administrator account to perform a migration for any user account

Connect-Box -Email user@box.com -Admin

Syntax

Connect-Box
-Email <String>

Connect-Box
-Email <String>
-Admin <SwitchParameter>

Parameters

-Admin <SwitchParameter>

Use administrator authentication.

Required?	True
Default value	None
Accept pipeline input?	False
Accept wildcard characters?	False
Parameter set name	Admin
Aliases	None

-Email <String>

Specifies the user email address.

Required?	True
Default value	None
Accept pipeline input?	False
Accept wildcard characters?	False
Parameter set name	(All)
Aliases	None

Comments

5 comments

Jaydeep Misra October 04, 2019 16:30

Can you please explain how to automatically connect to box without manual click. When i ran below command, i have to manually click and authorize. Can this be skipped through power shell. That would help as i would be able to create .ps1 file and schedule those task scheduler.

after below command this screen appears-

$box = Connect-Box -email abc@email.com -admin

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Alex October 07, 2019 13:58

Hello Jaydeep,

If you want to avoid the manual prompt, you need to follow the link under Description, which guides you to Connect ShareGate to Box article. That will explain how to grant access and no longer see that prompt.

Thanks!

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Alex Harter November 05, 2019 17:36

We are having the same problem. Opened up ticket with Box and they are saying its a ShareGate OAuth2 issue. We registered ShareGate Desktop with the client ID (jj7eh2t0p7r5vh8gqzrtgb4tl8jen7pj) in Box, but still get the logon prompt in our powershell script.

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Alex November 05, 2019 17:54

Hello Alex,

If you are having the same issue as Jaydeep, but the solution we offered is not fixing it, it will be best to open a ticket with our Support team.

I will go ahead and do that for you.

Thanks!

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Alex November 14, 2019 20:16

Hello everyone!

We looked at this more in depth and it seems there was a misunderstanding on our end. The prompt is part of the default behavior by Box.com. There is no solution to stop seeing it. The good news is that once you manually authorize, everything else should run smoothly, as it should!

We updated the article to reflect this. Thanks for your comments!

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