What’s changing Recently, we introduced the ability to create spaces in Google Chat that you can share with others in your organization to join via link. We’re now adding the ability for Admins to set the default for newly created spaces and enabl…
Add shared drives to specific organizational units
What’s changing For select Google Workspace editions, admins can now place shared drives into sub organizational units (OUs). Doing so enables admins to configure sharing policies, data regions, access management, and more at a granular level.&nbs…
Take action on multiple text selections in Google Docs
Quick summary In Google Docs, you can now make multiple text selections at once, and apply actions such as delete, copy, paste, or format to all selections. This will make formatting and editing documents faster by eliminating the need to make rep…
Add personal tasks from Google Chat
What’s changingIn Google Chat, you can now create personal tasks from individual or group messages. These will then be viewable by you in Google Tasks, the quick-access side panel, and Google Calendar if the task has a set date.Who’s impacted End …
Send group membership information in outbound SAML responses
Quick launch summary We’re adding the ability for admins to configure and send group membership information as part of SAML responses. Currently, you are able to configure SSO to send user attributes in the SAML response when a user logs in t…
New banners in Google Chat protect against malicious links
Quick summary In Google Chat, you’ll see banners warning against potential phishing and malware messages coming from users with personal Google Accounts. These warning banners, which are already available in Gmail and Google Drive, help protect us…
Export log data in near-real time to BigQuery
Quick summary Currently, you can export Google Workspace logs to Google BigQuery for customized and scalable reporting. Exports take place as a daily sync, returning log data that can be up to three days old. With this launch, exported log data st…
New and updated third-party DevOps integrations for Google Chat, including PagerDuty
What’s changingWe’re introducing and updating a variety of additional DevOps integrations, which will allow you to take action on common workflows directly in Google Chat: Apps such as Google Cloud Build, Asana, GitHub, Jenkins and more, have been…
Set up SSO profiles for multiple third-party identity providers with the Multi-IdP SSO beta launch
What’s changing For over a decade, we have given admins the ability to configure authentication through a third-party identity provider . In 2021, we expanded this capability by making it possible to choose between third-party identity provider or…