Updates to storage management tools in the Admin console

What’s changing 

In April 2022, we announced a new set of tools for managing storage across your organization. These tools give our customers additional insights and control to manage storage usage across users, groups, and their entire organization. To further enhance this experience, we’re rolling out: 
  • A new Storage Admin role 
  • The ability to apply storage limits to shared drives (coming soon) 
  • A new column called Shared drive ID in the Manage Shared Drives page (coming soon) 

See below for more information. 


Who’s impacted

Admins 


Why it's important

Super admins can use the new “Storage Admin” role to delegate access to the storage management tools, which will allow these admins to view and manage their storage usage. The new Storage Admin role will be rolling out over the next several days. As an admin, you can delegate a new Storage Admin in the admin console by navigating here


In the coming months, admins will be able to apply a storage limit policy to shared drives within a company or an organizational unit. This new functionality will further help admins configure and manage storage settings that best fit the needs of their organization. In addition, admins will be able to uniquely identify a shared drive using the Shared drive ID. We’ll provide an update on the Workspace Updates Blog when this functionality becomes available. 


Applying storage limits to a shared drive



Storage information for shared drives



Getting started 

Rollout pace 

Storage Admin role 


Adding Shared Drive Storage Limits & Shared Drive ID 
  • We’ll share an update once this feature becomes available. 

Availability 

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

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