by | Jan 19, 2024 | Noticias
What’s changing
Last November, we introduced starred on web, an additional shortcut in the redesigned Google Chat navigation panel that helps you stay on top of your most important messages. Today, we’re excited to announce this is now available on Android and iOS mobile devices.
Getting started
Rollout pace
Android:
iOS:
Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts
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by | Jan 22, 2024 | Noticias
What’s changing
We’re introducing a centralized location for reviewing and taking action on reported Google Chat content in the Admin console under Apps > Google Workspace > Moderation, alongside the email quarantine tool for Gmail. Here can be found an overarching view of active and resolved reports, as well as additional information and context about reported messages, allowing for more informed decisions to be made.
Super admins will have access to the moderation tool and can also assign users the new “Moderate Chat content report” privilege. The new privilege can be assigned to users in your organization who are best suited to review Chat content, helping to reduce the burden on super admins.
Who’s impacted
Admins and designated moderators
Why it’s important
Google Chat is key to accelerating productivity and collaboration — content reporting and moderation helps ensure that information exchanged across Chat is safe and appropriate. When a report is submitted by users, the moderation tool can be used to:
See all reports associated with the message (including those resolved in the past).Note that resolved reports will be removed from the Moderation tool after 180 days.Review the edit history of a message and conversation transcript, including up to five messages posted before the reported message.Conversation details provide information about the type of conversation (direct messages, group direct messages, or Spaces) with number of participants, space managers, guidelines, etc.
Using this information, combined with organization policies, admins and moderators can choose the best course of action, whether that be deleting a specific message or deleting an entire space before resolving the report. Additionally, moderators can add comments to the report for prosperity should the content require further auditing in the future.
The moderation tool can be accessed in the Admin console by selecting Apps > Google Workspace > Moderation.
Upon selecting a reported message, you’ll see a variety of information including conversation details and other reports for the message.
You can select “Show more” from the “Reported message” section to view up to five messages sent prior to the reported message.
Additional details
As part of this change, the moderation tool will also include a tab for managing quarantined Gmail messages. Visit our Help Center for more information regarding
setting up email quarantine and the
admin privileges required to manage quarantined messages. The Gmail tab is available to all Google Workspace customers.
Getting started
Rollout pace
Availability
Google Chat content reporting and moderation is available to Google Workspace Enterprise, Enterprise Plus, Education Standard and Education Plus customers
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by | Jan 29, 2024 | Noticias
What’s changing
We’re making changes to the terminology that refers to when a Meet hardware device is no longer supported:
‘End of Meet support date’ replaces Auto-Update Expiration (AUE) in the Meet hardware Help Center.The Admin console will show ‘end of Meet support’ instead of ‘EOL (end of life)’ in both device information and fleet overview pages.The field name for “end of life” in Admin console’s CSV downloads will change from “eolDate” to “endOfMeetSupportDate”
End of Meet support as indicated in the device information page
End of Meet support as indicated in the Google Meet hardware fleet overview
Additional details
The end of Meet support date for Intel 10th generation devices have been extended from June 2028 to June 2029 to reflect their continued availability.
Getting started
Admins: Visit the Help Center to learn more about the Google Meet hardware auto-update policy and end of Meet support.End users: There is no end user impact or action required.
Rollout pace
Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on Jan 29, 2024
Availability
This update impacts all Google Workspace customers with Meet hardware devices.
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by | Jan 23, 2024 | Noticias
What’s changing
We’ve expanded support for closed captioning to include the following additional languages:
-Afrikaans
-Albanian
-Amharic
-Armenian
-Australian English
-Basque
-Burmese
-Catalan
-English (India)
-English (Philippines)
-Estonian
-Farsi
-Filipino
-Galician
-Georgian
-Hungarian
-Javanese
-Latvian
-Macedonian
-Mongolian
-Nepali
-Norwegian
-Sinhala
-Slovak
-Slovenian
-Sundanese
-Tamil (India)
-Telugu (India)
-Urdu
-Uzbek
– Zulu
You’ll notice that the newly supported languages are denoted with a “beta” tag as we continue to optimize performance.
Getting started
Rollout pace
This update is available now for all users.
Availability
Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts
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by | Jan 25, 2024 | Noticias
What’s changing
We are making two improvements to the space creation flow in Google Chat: preventing duplicate space names and providing a method to configure spaces for specific use cases.
In order to prevent duplicate space names in Google Chat, you will no longer be able to create a space within your company’s domain if the space name already exists. Similar to the experience in Gmail and Google Groups, if a space name already exists, an error message will appear. The same will happen if a user tries to edit the name of a space to another name that already exists.
This feature will not immediately apply to space names created via Chat API. Starting June 3, 2024, spaces created via Chat API will also be subject to this error.
Starting this week, you will also notice an updated user interface when creating a new space in Chat. In addition to easily determining access settings, you can now designate the space for Collaboration (useful for discussing a topic or team project) or for
Announcements (helpful for facilitating one-way controlled communication such as company-wide updates).
After creating the space, an updated welcome page will appear with contextual options that provide users with next steps depending on the space type selected. For a Collaboration space, users get the options to add members, share files, assign tasks and create a welcome message that appears when a new member joins the space. You will also have the ability to toggle “History on” and will see contextual suggestions for eligible apps (based on popular apps in your domain) to explore in Marketplace and add into the space. For an Announcement space, users will get the option to add groups, manage space permissions and add guidelines on how to use the space.
Getting started
Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. End users: You will receive an error message when editing or
creating a space in Google Chat that has the name of a space that already exists. Existing spaces with the same name will not be impacted. Visit the Help Center to learn more about
the new space creation flow. Developers: Update apps created via Chat API to ensure they do not conflict with this new error code for duplicate space names by June 3, 2024.
Rollout pace
New space creation flow
Web:
Mobile:
This feature will be available on mobile by the end of Q1 2024
Availability
Available to all Google Workspace customers and Google Workspace Individual subscribers
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by | Jan 26, 2024 | Noticias
2 New updates
Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if 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.
Updated List / Grid toggle now available in Google Drive
To make the List / Grid toggle more visible in Google Drive, we’ve introduced a new split-button toggle with the updated
Google Material Design 3. This toggle is now available across all Drive web pages, making it easier for you to switch between viewing modes based on your preference. | The List / Grid toggle is now available to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. | Learn more about
viewing and reordering your files and folders.
Jump to where your collaborator is while editing in Google Sites
When working on content in Google Docs or Slides, you can go to wherever your collaborator is working within the document or presentation by clicking their avatar in the top right corner. This week, we’re excited to announce a similar feature in Google Sites. Now, when a Site editor clicks on a collaborator’s avatar, they will jump to the selected tile of the clicked collaborator. If the collaborator is on a different page, the site editor will be taken to that page. | Rolling out to
Rapid Release domains now; launch to
Scheduled Release domains planned for February 12, 2024. | Available to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. | Learn more about
following a collaborator on Google Sites.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.
Manage reported Google Chat content from the new moderation tool in the Admin console
We’re introducing a centralized location for reviewing and taking action on reported Google Chat content in the Admin console under Apps > Google Workspace > Moderation, alongside the email quarantine tool for Gmail. | Google Chat content reporting and moderation is available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Standard and Education Plus customers only. | Learn more about
reported Google Chat content. Closed caption support in Google Meet expands to an additional thirty-one languages
Improving space creation in Google Chat
We are making two improvements to the space creation flow in Google Chat: preventing duplicate space names and providing a method to configure spaces for specific use cases. | Learn more about
space creation in Google Chat.
Rapid Release Domains:
Scheduled Release Domains:
Rapid and Scheduled Release Domains:
For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).
by | Jan 16, 2024 | Noticias
What’s changing
You can now collaborate with others on client-side encrypted Google Docs to add, edit, reply, filter, or delete comments. You can also assign action items to yourself or others. This added functionality helps bring parity to unencrypted docs while also ensuring your data is behind encryption keys you control, including the identity provider used to access those keys.
This feature is available as an open beta, which means you can use it without enrolling in a specific beta program. While this feature is available for Google Docs initially, with support coming for Google Sheets and Slides in the future.
Additional details
Note that when sharing encrypted files, you can only assign “viewer” or “editor” permissions — the “comment only” permission is not supported.
Comments are saved each time the document is autosaved. If you restore the document to a previous version, the comments added to the document in that version are also restored.
Getting started
Rollout pace
Availability
Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus, Education Standard and Education Plus customers
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by | Jan 12, 2024 | Noticias
What’s changing
Last year, we improved the client-side security of Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, Drawings, Drive, and Calendar with
Trusted Types. This browser-based runtime feature limits the uses of
Document Object Model (DOM) APIs that are used by the apps listed above or third-party extensions. Trusted Types also reduce the possibility of Document Object Model Cross Site Scripting (
DOM XSS), which continues to be one of the most critical threats to web security.
DOM XSS occurs when a cyber attacker injects malicious code into a web page, which can then be executed by the victim’s browser. This can allow the cyber attacker to steal cookies, hijack sessions, and even take control of the victim’s computer.
To defend against this, we’re excited to announce the expansion of Trusted Types to Gmail. This will provide a defense against DOM XSS and further enhances our advanced data protection controls to keep users and data safe across more of the apps they use everyday.
Who’s impacted
Developers (relying on any Chrome extensions that modify DOM APIs.)
Additional details
This new enforcement mode will require third-party extensions to use
typed objects instead of strings when assigning values to DOM APIs. Once Trusted Types are fully enforced, the Trusted Types directive will be present in the Content Security Policy (CSP) header:
Content-Security-Policy: require-trusted-types-for ‘script’;report-uri https://mail.google.com/mail/cspreport
Getting started
Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. Developers: To make code Trusted Types compliant, signal to the browser that data being used within the context of these DOM APIs is trustworthy by creating a Trusted Type special object. There are several ways to be Trusted Types compliant, such as
removing the offending code, using a library (such as
safevalues or
DOMPurify), or
creating a Trusted Types policy. To ensure a seamless experience for users, we recommend employing these techniques before Trusted Types enforcement is rolled out. Failure to make code Trusted Types compliant may cause feature breakages for third-party extensions as their DOM manipulations will be blocked by the browser. End users: There is no end user setting for this feature.
Rollout pace
Availability
Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts
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by | Jan 12, 2024 | Noticias
4 New updates
Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if 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.
Version history limits for Apps Script projects
For all new scripts, you’ll be able to create and save up to 200 versions of your script. If needed, you can permanently delete a script version from the project history page. | This is available now to all Google Workspace customers. | Learn more using our
developer documentation on working with Apps Script versions.
Share a link to a specific time in a Google Drive video
We’re adding new functionality to the Drive sharing button that lets you share timestamped links to specific parts of a video. On web, simply navigate to
drive.google.com > find and open a video file > play the video (you can pause the playback before performing the following steps) > select the dropdown on the “Share” button in the top-right corner > select “Copy link to this time” > send the link. | Rolling out now to
Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains. | Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts. | Learn more about
copying a specific time in the video.
Introducing dropdown options on the sharing button in Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drawings We’re adding a new feature that ensures a seamless sharing experience across Workspace. In Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drawings, you will now see a dropdown on the Share button that surfaces quick actions, such as pending
access requests and the “Copy link” option. | Rolling out now to
Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains. | Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts.
Using functions in Connected Sheets for BigQuery
Today, Connected Sheets for BigQuery supports 23 Sheets functions, such as AVERAGE and XLOOKUP. However, all of these functions behave somewhat differently than their native counterparts. Thus, to help Connected Sheets users write better functions, we now display context-aware Help Center content in Sheets. The ‘formula help’ shows descriptions for Connected Sheets functions when writing a formula that would query BigQuery, and otherwise shows descriptions of native Sheets functions. | This is available now to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google Accounts. | Learn more about the
XLOOKUP function.
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.
Updates to metrics in Google Drive Apps Reports and Reports API
We’re making some updates to the Google Drive metrics in the Admin Console Apps reports and the Reports API. As a result of these improvements, admins who analyze metrics will have more reporting clarity and can better understand activity trends within their domain. | Learn more about
metrics in Drive Apps Reports and Reports API.
Easily share Google Drive files to Google Calendar meeting attendees
We’re introducing the option to share any file with all meeting participants on a Google Calendar invite via the sharing dialog within a file. | Learn more about
sharing Drive files to Calendar. Google Meet is now available on Logitech Android appliances
Google Meet is now supported on Logitech’s Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini Android-based appliances for collaboration rooms and spaces of just about any size. After initial setup, admins can easily enroll, manage, and monitor these devices using the Google admin console. Google Meet on Logitech Android-based devices is supported on CollabOS v1.11 as a video conferencing provider | Learn more about
Meet on Logitech Android appliances. Google Meet hardware devices from Poly now support interoperability with Cisco Webex and Zoom
We’re expanding the existing interoperability between Google Meet, Cisco Webex, and Zoom to include Android-based Meet hardware devices from Poly. Specifically, these devices include: Poly Studio X30, X50, X52, and X70. | Learn more about
support interoperability with Cisco Webex and Zoom.Extending Trusted Types to Gmail
We’re excited to announce the expansion of Trusted Types to Gmail. This will provide a defense against DOM XSS and further enhances our advanced data protection controls to keep users and data safe across more of the apps they use everyday. | Learn more about
Trusted Types.Rapid Release Domains:
Scheduled Release Domains:
Rapid and Scheduled Release Domains:
For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).
by | Jan 12, 2024 | Noticias
What’s changing
We’re expanding the existing interoperability between Google Meet,
Cisco Webex, and
Zoom to include Poly-Android based devices. Specifically, these devices include: Poly Studio X30, X50, X52, and X70.
Note that Webex and Zoom interoperability supports core video conferencing features. Some advanced features, such as polls, wired present, and dual-screen support may not be available when using Poly Meet hardware to join Webex or Zoom meetings.
End users:
When enabled by your admin, you can join a Webex or Zoom meeting from a Poly Android-based Google Meet hardware device by: Joining an ad-hoc call by tapping “Join or start a meeting” on your touch controller and selecting Webex or Zoom from the dropdown options. Joining a scheduled call by adding a room to an event with Webex or Zoom meeting details. Note: Calendar events that originate outside of Google Calendar must be duplicated and populated with room details manually.Visit the Help Center to
learn more about Google Meet interoperability.
Rollout pace
Availability
Available to all Google Workspace customers with Google Meet hardware subscriptions
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