Tag Archives: Admin Console

Assignments audit data now available in the Admin console

Quick summary 

Google Workspace for Education admins can now view Assignments data in their audit logs. Using this data, admins can find and act on Assignments related events such as who removed a student from a video call, when assignment files were created or submitted, and more. 



Getting started 

  • Admins: Audit logs can be found in the Admin console under Reporting > Audit > Investigation > Admin log events. Visit the Help Center to learn more about Admin log events. 
  • End users: There is no end user impact 



Rollout pace 


Availability 


  • Available to Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Education Plus, Education Standard, and the Teaching and Learning upgrade. 
  • Not available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers. 

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Migrate unmanaged accounts to your domain using new “UserInvitation” API functionality

What’s changing 

We’re introducing new API functionality which allows you to automate the process of finding conflicting accounts and inviting them to join your organization. 


Who’s impacted 

Admins, end users, and developers 


Why you’d use it 

When employees create a Google account using one of your organization’s domains to access Google services, this is known as an unmanaged account. Unmanaged accounts are not ideal for managing users and keeping their work data secure. 


Additionally, should an admin try to create a managed account with the same name, this conflict will prevent a managed account from being created. Using the UserInvitation API functionality, you can send a request to convert their personal account to a Google Workspace account. 


While the same action can be manually performed with the Transfer Tool, the API allows conflicting accounts to be identified and remediated programmatically, using logic that best suits your needs.


Getting started 

  • Admins and Developers: 
  • End users: 
    • If you accept the request from your admin to transfer their account, your admin will be granted access to their data and the ability to manage your account. 
    • If you don’t accept the invitation, you will have to rename your account. Your administrator can create a new, managed account for you. 

Rollout pace 


Availability 

  • Available to Google Workspace Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise, Cloud Identity Premium and Cloud Identity Free customers 
  • Not available to Google Workspace Essentials,, Enterprise Essentials, Education Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Plus, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers 

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Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – July 22, 2022

New updates

Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are fully launched or in the process of rolling out (rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete), launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time (if not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete), and available to all Google Workspace and G Suite customers. 


Rollout improvements for future Google Chat launches 
Going forward, all major user-facing feature changes and improvements to Google Chat will follow a rollout schedule in which accounts under Rapid Release will see new features first, followed by accounts under the default setting of Scheduled Release, at least 1 week later. We hope this change makes it easier for you to plan for new Google Chat updates. As a reminder, Admins can choose which release track they want their accounts to follow. | Learn more. 

Series One Desk 27 now in production 
In September 2021, we announced Series One Desk 27, a premium all-in-one touchscreen Google Meet collaboration device. These devices are now in production and will be available for shipping soon. Contact Avocor for more information on ordering the Series One devices. | Learn more. 


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.


Making Google Chat active user metrics more detailed in the Admin console 
We’ve rolled out a new method for calculating active users in Google Chat across your organization that ensures greater accuracy for detecting a user's reading and sending actions in Chat. This will provide admins more accurate reporting. | Learn more. 

Control access to experimental Google Workspace apps with a new admin setting 
Admins can use the new Experimental Apps Control setting to grant or deny their users access to emerging or experimental Google applications and whether those applications can access core service data. | Learn more. 

Building larger spaces in Google Chat 
We've increased the amount of members you can add to a space in Google Chat from 400 to 8,000. | Learn more. 

Stay on top of changes to document content with edit notifications 
In Google Docs, you can now choose to receive email notifications for document changes on a per file basis. Edit notification emails detail what changes were made, when the changes were made, and who made them. | Learn more.

Allow Google Meet participants to ask questions or respond to polls anonymously 
In Google Meet, meeting participants will now have the option to ask questions or participate in polls anonymously. | Q&A is available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Teaching and Learning Upgrade, Education Plus and Nonprofits, as well as legacy G Suite Business customers only. | Polls are available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Teaching and Learning Upgrade, Education Plus and Nonprofits, as well as legacy G Suite Business customers and Google Workspace Individual users only. | Learn more. 

Delete Chat spaces and their content, now generally available 
You can now delete a named space in Google Chat. With this capability, a space manager can delete a space, which completely removes all owned contents of the space, space tasks, and files and attachments not saved elsewhere. | Learn more. 

Prevent spam by adding invitations from known senders only to your calendar 
You can now select an option to display events on your calendar only if they come from a sender you know to help keep your Calendar free from spam. | Learn more. 

Live stream Google Meet events via YouTube 
Google Workspace users can live stream meetings publicly via YouTube. |Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, Teaching and Learning Upgrade customers only and Google One Premium plan members in select countries. | Learn more. 

Easily access your most used emojis in Google Chat 
In the Google Chat emoji picker, your most frequently used emojis can be found under the new “Frequently Used” section | Learn more. 

Programmatically manage and apply Drive Labels using new API functionality 
Developers can now programmatically manage labels at scale via Drive APIs. In addition to supporting the ability to read Drive Label taxonomies, new functionality in the Drive API can be used to apply labels, set fields on files, and find files by label metadata. | Available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, Education Standard, and Nonprofits customers only. | Learn more. 

For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).

Live stream Google Meet events via YouTube

What’s changing

Once enabled by an Admin, Google Workspace users can live stream meetings publicly via YouTube. 



You can initiate a live stream in Meet by navigating to Activities panel > Live Streaming and selecting your channel from the list.




Who’s impacted

Admins and end users


Why you’d use it

Live streaming is useful in situations where you want to present information to large audiences outside of your organization, giving them the opportunity to pause and replay as needed, or view the presentation at a later time.


Additional Details

To initiate a YouTube live stream through Meet you should have your YouTube channel approved for live streaming in advance. Note that it can take up to 24 hours to get your channel approved for live streaming — Visit the Help Center to learn more about live streaming Google Meet events. 


Getting started


Rollout pace


Availability

  • Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, Teaching and Learning Upgrade customers
  • Available to Google Workspace Individual users
  • Available to Google One Premium plan members in select countries
  • Available to users with personal Google Accounts
  • Not available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Education Standard, Education Fundamentals, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers

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Control access to experimental Google Workspace apps with a new admin setting

What’s changing 

Admins can use the new Experimental Apps Control setting to grant or deny their users access to emerging or experimental Google applications and whether those applications can access core service data. 




Who’s impacted 

Admins and end users 


Why it’s important 

Oftentimes, experimental Google apps do not have individual on/off switches. With the addition of the Experimental Apps Control, admins can now better control selected services their users can access. Furthermore, they can specify whether these applications should have access to core service data. 


Getting started 

  • Admins: 
    • This feature will be ON by default for existing Google Workspace customers and OFF by default for Google Workspace for Education primary and secondary schools (K-12). 
    • This feature can be enabled or disabled at the domain, OU, or group level at Apps > Additional Google services > Settings for Workspace Experiments. 
    • Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Experimental Apps Controls. 
  • End users: There is no end user action required. If enabled by your admin, you will be able to access experimental Google apps using your Google Workspace account. 


Rollout pace 


Availability 

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers 

Resources 

Making Google Chat active user metrics more detailed in the Admin console

Quick summary 

We’re making changes to how we calculate active users in Google Chat across your organization. Specifically, this new method ensures greater accuracy for detecting a user's reading and sending actions in Chat, which will provide admins more accurate reporting. 




As such, you will notice an increase in the “Active users” for Google Chat metrics Apps reports chart and exported reports. We hope this change helps you better analyze Chat usage across your organization. 

Getting started

Rollout pace 


Availability 

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Business and Basic customers

Resources 

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – July 15, 2022

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.


Allow collaborators to analyze data in Connected Sheets with delegated access 
Admins can now allow their users to delegate access to BigQuery when using Connected Sheets. This enables end users with access to BigQuery data to delegate their credentials to collaborators to allow them to refresh or edit analysis as needed. | Available to Google Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Standard, Education Plus customers only. | Learn more. 

Sync Apple DEP and Google Mobile Device Management servers on demand 
Admins can now trigger an on demand sync between Apple DEP and Google Mobile Device Management (MDM) servers for company owned devices. | Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, and Cloud Identity Premium customers only. | Learn more.

Add data loss prevention to Google Chat, now available as an open beta 
Admins can now establish data loss prevention (DLP) rules for Google Chat that can help protect sensitive data from getting to unauthorized users. | Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Education Plus, and the Teaching & Learning upgrade customers only and Cloud Identity Premium users who are licensed for Workspace editions with Drive audit log. | Learn more. 

Better sharing options for appointment schedules 
We’ve made it easier to share appointment schedules on web through a new Share button. This update allows appointment hosts to copy a short link to all appointment schedules or a specific booking page, and add HTML to embed a booking page on their website. | Available to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Education Plus, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Nonprofits customers only. | Learn more. 

Use Miro within Google Meet for an immersive and collaborative whiteboard experience 
You can now leverage Miro, a third party online whiteboarding app, for ideating and problem solving as a group in Google Meet. | Learn more. 

Trust rules for Google Drive are now available in open beta 
The closed beta we announced in 2021 for trust rules in Google Drive that gives admins more control over how files can be shared, both within and outside of their organization, is now available as an open beta. | Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Standard, Education Plus, and Education Standard customers only. | Learn more. 


For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).

Trust rules for Google Drive are now available in open beta

What’s changing 

In 2021 we announced a closed beta for trust rules in Google Drive, which gives admins more control over how files can be shared, both within and outside of their organization. Beginning today, this feature will be available as an open beta for specific Google Workspace customers, which means you can use it without enrolling in a specific beta program. See below for more information regarding availability. 


With trust rules, admins can enforce policies that limit internal and external sharing. Specific rules can even be set for organizational units and groups, allowing a more granular approach than enforcing blanket policies on every user. 


Trust rules can be turned on in the Admin console — once enabled, it will replace “Sharing options” within the Google Drive portion of the Admin console. Your existing Drive sharing settings will automatically become trust rules – note that this will not change your existing sharing settings or security configurations. 


See below for more information and availability. 


Who’s impacted 

Admins and end users 


Why it’s important 

Previously, admins were only given broad control over sharing settings for Drive, which meant choosing between options such as: no external sharing or only sharing with trusted domains. 


By enabling the trust rules beta, admins now have more control over how files can be shared, both within and outside of their organization. For example, admins can limit what their frontline workers should have access to versus other parts of their organization. 


Getting started 

  • Admins: Eligible Admins can enable this feature in the Admin console by going to Rules > Turn on trust rules. Visit the Help Center to learn more about trust rules. 


  • End users: Your Admin’s trust rules will determine who you can share and collaborate with on Drive files. 

Rollout pace 


Availability 

  • Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Standard, Education Plus, and Education Standard Customers 
  • Not available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Education Fundamentals, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers 

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Use Miro within Google Meet for an immersive and collaborative whiteboard experience

What’s changing 

You can now leverage Miro, a third party online whiteboarding app, for ideating and problem solving as a group in Google Meet. With this integration in Google Meet, you can seamlessly collaborate on a Miro board together during a call with powerful tools and templates, such as brainstorming with digital sticky notes and planning agile workflows, for more aligned and innovative teamwork. Visit the Cloud Blog for more information on the Google Meet and Miro integration.




This integration is available when using Google Meet on Chrome or Microsoft Edge at this time. 


Who’s impacted 

Admins and end users 


Why you’d use it 

You now have Miro’s vast offering of drawing tools, templates, comments, and other helpful features directly accessible from Google Meet. This integration will make it easier to foster collaboration and participation from all meeting participants, regardless of location, in real-time or asynchronously. 

Getting started 


Rollout pace 


Availability 

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers 
  • Available to users with personal Google Accounts 
  • Not available to users with a Google Family Link Account or users under the age of 18. 

Resources 

Add data loss prevention to Google Chat, now available as an open beta

What’s changing

For select Google Workspace editions, admins can establish data loss prevention (DLP) rules for Google Chat that can help protect sensitive data from getting to unauthorized users. This feature is now available as an open beta, which means admins can use it without enrolling in a specific beta program.


Data loss prevention rules for Chat in the Admin console



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Who’s impacted

Admins and end users


Why it’s important

Data leaks, whether accidental or malicious, are a top concern for our customers. Data protection rules for Chat help admins and security experts build a stronger framework around sensitive data to prevent personal  or proprietary information from ending up in the wrong hands.


Admins can selectively apply data protection rules to: 
  • Messages in groups, spaces, and/or direct messages
  • Messages between internal and/or external participants
  • Message text and/or attachments


Once DLP rules are applied, messages and files in relevant conversations will automatically be scanned for sensitive information. Users will be notified about potential data loss, preventing it from leaving the organization accidentally or on purpose. Admins can configure the action to be taken in response to sensitive data being detected, such as: block from sending, warn before sending, and log for audit in the future.


Admins can configure these options to best fit the needs of their organization. If admins opt to log these events, they can be accessed in the Security Investigation Tool. This allows admins to do a comprehensive investigation and identify the reason for each incident and make adjustments to data protection policies as necessary.


Getting started

  • Admins: 
    • This feature will be OFF by default and can be enabled at the domain, OU, or group level. You can create DLP rules in the Admin console under Security > Data Protection.
      • Note: You can modify existing DLP rules for Drive and Chrome to also apply to Chat.
    • Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning data loss prevention in Chat on for your organization.

Rollout pace


Availability

  • Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Education Plus, and the Teaching & Learning upgrade customers.
  • DLP rules for Drive are also available for Cloud Identity Premium users who are licensed for Workspace editions with Drive audit log. Visit the Help Center for more information.
  • Not available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers


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