Shared drives can now have up to 100 levels of nested folders and 500,000 items 

Prior to this month, a folder in a shared drive could have up to 20 levels of nested folders and could contain a maximum of 400,000 items. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve increased the nested folder limit to 100 levels and the maximum number of items to 500,000. | Rollout to Rapid and Scheduled Release domains is complete. | Available to Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts. | Learn more about shared drive limits in Google Drive. 

eSignature is now available for select Google Workspace customers 

As previously announced, starting July 15, 2024, we will begin rolling out eSignature for Google Docs to end users on select Google Workspace editions. eSignature offers a variety of features to help you streamline requesting and capturing signatures, helping you stay organized and keep your work moving along. Specifically, you can: 

Request eSignatures, including signatures from more than one user and from non-Gmail users. View the status of pending signatures and find completed contracts. Keep contract templates to initiate multiple eSignature requests. View an audit trail of completed contracts.Use custom text fields to request additional information from signers, such as job titles, email addresses and more. Sign contracts from both mobile devices and PCs. Rollout to Rapid and Scheduled Release domains starts July 15, 2024 at a gradual pace (up to 15 days for feature visibility). | Available to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus, and Education Plus customers. | Learn more about sending signature requests & sign documents with eSignature.

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Following our recent announcement of the appointment slots feature in Google Calendar being replaced by appointment schedules in July 2024, we’re updating appointment schedules by adding new features to enhance the overall experience. 

First, we’re adding the option to designate a custom weekly recurrence when creating an appointment schedule in Calendar. This will allow users to make the schedule repeat on more flexible recurrences, such as bi-weekly. 

Second, bookers (and co-hosts) can now add other guests or rooms to booked events. This feature is only available if the user creating the appointment schedule selects the “Guests can invite others” option during setup or edit of the schedule. 

Lastly, the appointment schedule creator can now add Google Groups as co-hosts during the setup process so users can more easily host appointments with others. 

Admins: There is no admin control for these features. End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about creating an appointment schedule and customizing your appointment availability.

Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 9, 2024 Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 23, 2024 

The custom recurrence option & allowing guests to invite others on Appointment Schedules are available for Google Workspace: 

Business Starter, Standard, Plus Enterprise Standard, Plus Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, the Teaching & Learning Upgrade Nonprofits Workspace Individual Subscribers Google One Premium users Users with personal Google accounts 

Adding groups as co-hosts on Appointment Schedules is available for Google Workspace: 

Business Standard, Plus Enterprise Standard, Plus Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, the Teaching & Learning Upgrade Nonprofits 

Access Management is now also generally available in the European Union — these controls allow customers to select the physical location from which Google support teams can access organizational data during support activities. Customers can now restrict support personnel to EU Google staff in EU locations. If necessary, non-EU Google staff may access data through virtual desktops that are located in EU locations.

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We know that compliance and data controls are paramount for our customers, both in understanding Google Workspace’s policies and configuring compliance-relevant features according to the needs of their business sector and geographical region. To help our customers navigate these complexities, we’ve centralized some of these relevant features and information into a single location in the admin console: Data.

We’re pleased to announce several new enhancements to Google Workspace data regions: 

For the first time, admins will be able to specify not only the region (EU or US) where their data is stored, but also the region in which it is processed, with granular controls to allow administrators to easily refine the region and level of compliance needed as appropriate for their organizational groups. Workspace customers have the flexibility to select multiple geographies to suit their needs, versus being restricted to one region mandated by billing address.