by | Oct 15, 2024 | News
What's changing
Earlier this year, we launched Google Drive inventory reporting in beta — beginning today, this feature is generally available. Compared to APIs, exporting inventory reports to BigQuery empowers admins to understand their data more deeply, providing insights into how their data is classified, accessed, and used. Understanding these metrics can help admins to identify security risks, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, and more. For more information, please reference our
original announcement.
Alongside general availability, we’re pleased to announce new functionality:
When generated, inventory reports will follow the
data regions settings established by admins. Within reports, you can now view the email address of the file creator, what organizational unit the file owner belongs to, and inherited permissions for shared drive items. For greater admin visibility into inventory reporting related actions, audit events are now captured for configuration updates, configuration deletion & creation, as well as completed and failed reports.
Getting started
Admins: Visit the Help Centre to learn more about
Drive inventory reportingEnd users: There is no end user impact or action required.
Rollout pace
Availability
Available* for Google Workspace:
Enterprise Standard and PlusEducation Standard and PlusEnterprise Essentials PlusCloud Identity Premium
*Note that this availability refers to the ability to generate a report. All end users will be included in the report and are not limited to any specific Google Workspace edition.
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by | Oct 15, 2024 | News
What's changing
In March 2024, we launched an
open beta for the ability to migrate your users’ email data from Google Workspace, Gmail, or IMAP enabled mail servers to another Google Workspace account. This includes the ability to run delta migrations, to smartly bring over newly generated or modified emails from the source without duplicating previously migrated content.
Beginning today, this data migration experience is now generally available, helping admins migrate email data in a more secure, reliable, and efficient manner.
Admin console > Data > Data Import & Export > Data Migration
Additional details
Getting started
Rollout pace
Available now.
Availability
Available to Google Workspace:Business Starter, Standard, and PlusEnterprise Standard and PlusEducation Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, and the Teaching and Learning UpgradeEssentials Starter, Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials PlusNonprofits
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by | Oct 16, 2024 | News
What's changing
You can now use Gemini in the side panel of Google Docs, Google Sheets, Gmail, and Google Drive in seven additional languages:
GermanItalianJapaneseKoreanPortugueseSpanishFrench
The additional languages are available in alpha for Workspace customers with a Gemini Business, Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Education, and Gemini Education Premium add-on. Admins can use our Help Center to learn more about turning access to Gemini for Google Workspace Alpha features on for your users.
With Gemini in the side panel of your Workspace apps, you can get help summarizing, analyzing, and generating content by utilizing insights gathered from your emails, documents, and more—all without switching applications or tabs. For more information, please refer to our original announcements for Gemini in the side panel of Docs, Sheets, and Driveas well as Gmail respectively.
Rollout pace
Availability
Available for Google Workspace customers with a:
Gemini Business and Enterprise add-onGemini Education and Education Premium add-on
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by | Oct 7, 2024 | News
What's changing
To add to the list of
question types that users can respond to in Google Forms and enable the collection of feedback in a more engaging way, we’re introducing a rating question type.
This new question type enables you to customize rating questions by setting a rating scale level and include rating icons, such as stars or hearts, to offer a more intuitive way to gather opinions from an audience.
With this update, you’ll be able to analyze responses to these questions (e.g. average rating of responses and visual distributions of ratings) using the summary tab of the responses section.
Getting started
Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.End users: Go to “create a new form” at
forms.google.com or an existing form and add a new “Rating” question from the dropdown of different question types. Add the scale for the rating question, such as 1-5, and choose between the different icons supported: stars, hearts and thumbs up. Visit the Help Center to learn more about
asking responders to provide a rating on a scale. Rollout pace
Availability
Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts
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by | Oct 14, 2024 | News
What's changing
Earlier this year, we introduced a new migration solution from Google Workspace partner
CloudFuze that enables customers to import data from Slack into Google Chat. Today, we’re announcing an additional solution from CloudFuze that enables companies using
Workplace for Meta to migrate their data to Google Chat.
This functionality is particularly useful following
Meta’s announcement that Workplace will be available in read-only mode starting in September 2025 and fully unavailable in June 2026.
With this integration, you can move existing communities, groups, individual members, and admins into Chat spaces. In addition, all of the community posts, attachments, reactions, and more will be moved into Chat with the original historical timestamps to ensure that your knowledge repository is available for users in Chat.
Who's impacted
Admins and developers
Why you'd use it
This CloudFuze solution imports your team collaboration data and knowledge repository from Meta Workplace into Google Chat.
Getting started
Admins, end users and developers: Visit the
CloudFuze resource page to learn how to get started with migrating Meta Workplace data into Google Chat.
Rollout pace
Availability
Available to all Google Workspace customers. Note that a separate CloudFuze licensing is required to enable data migrations.
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