What’s changing In 2022, we introduced Access Approvals, which enables customers to control when Google support personnel can access specific data during support and general maintenance. Beginning today, we’re introducing additional options that p…
Improve search results with Personalization Boost and Click Boost for Cloud Search
What’s changing To help you find relevant documents faster, we’re introducing user personalization boost and click boost for the Cloud Search API. These boosts tailor search results based on the way users interact with search results: documents th…
Admins can install Chat apps for use in direct messages
What’s changingGoogle Chat apps integrate with productivity tools, enable you to collaborate with others, and can also help automate your work. Previously, to start using an app in Chat, users had to individually install apps as described here. St…
Add or remove client-side encryption from a Google Doc
What’s changing You can now choose to add client-side encryption to an existing document or remove it from an already encrypted document (File > Make a copy > Add/Remove additional encryption). This update gives you the flexibility to contro…
Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – March 17, 2023
New updates There are no new updates to share this week. Please see below for a recap of published announcements. Previous announcementsThe announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to th…
Improving your security with shorter Session Length defaults
What’s changing To further improve security for our customers, we are changing the default session length to 16 hours for existing Google Cloud customers. Note that this update refers to managing user connections to Google Cloud services (e.g. Goo…
Provide custom Google Meet background images for your users
What’s changing We’ve heard from our users that having backgrounds that match your brand guidelines are important for visual polish during critical meetings. Now, admins can now provide a set of images for the background replace feature in Google …
External label for Google Meet participants
What’s changing “External” labels will be available in Google Meet. Users will see a label in the top-left corner of their meeting screen indicating that participants who are external to the meeting host’s domain have joined the meeting. In the pe…
Managed Android devices must upgrade to Android Device Policy during March 2023
What’s changing In 2019, we announced that a new Android management client, Android Device Policy, would replace the legacy Google Apps Device Policy client. We’re now in the final stages of this upgrade. All devices with the Google Apps Devi…
Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – December 23, 2022
New updates There are no new updates to share this week. Please see below for a recap of published announcements. Previous announcementsThe announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to th…