New updates
There are no new updates to share this week. Please see below for a recap of published announcements.
Previous announcements
The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.
Send voice messages in Google Chat
In continuing our efforts to improve the Google Chat experience and help ensure it’s a useful tool for seamless communication, especially when on the go, we’ve introduced voice messages on Chat mobile (with web support coming soon). | Available to Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus customers only. | Learn more about voice messages in Chat.
Workspace audit log exports in BigQuery now enriched with Drive label metadata
For admins who analyze audit logs in BigQuery, these events are now enriched with Drive labels metadata. Admins leverage Drive labels to apply descriptive metadata, such as file sensitivity, to Drive items. With the enrichment of label metadata on log events, admins can now focus their analysis on activity occurring on their most important files by filtering on label conditions. | Available to Enterprise Essentials Plus, Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus, Education Standard and Education Plus customers only. | Learn more about Drive label metadata.
Access and sort shared files within a space in Google Chat more easily
We’re enhancing the Files tab in Google Chat spaces to improve upon the file management experience and create a central place to manage all conversation-related artifacts. The updated tab will now be called Shared. | Learn more about Shared in Chat.
Launch Miro directly from Google Meet Series One Board 65 and Desk 27 devices
Users now have the ability to launch Miro from a Series One Board 65 or Desk 27, either in an active Meet call or directly from the device home screen. | Learn more about launching Miro from Google Meet.
Completed rollouts
The features below completed their rollouts to Rapid Release domains, Scheduled Release domains, or both. Please refer to the original blog posts for additional details.
Scheduled Release Domains:
Rapid and Scheduled Release Domains:
- New guide to help screen reader users transition from Gmail HTML view to Gmail Standard view (Basic HTML view is now fully disabled)
- Securely migrate existing encrypted messages to Gmail client-side encryption (CSE) (Web & Android)
- Workspace audit log exports in BigQuery now enriched with Drive label metadata
For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).