A new tool for Workspace admins (i.e. your boss or superior, depending on your work structure) will now allow them to view your bandwidth quality and usage during Meet calls within the organization. This means that all of those times when your call dropped and you swore up and down that your internet sucked can […]
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Google Workspace Admins can now monitor Drive files changed by external users
The Google Workspace Updates blog has announced that starting March 2nd, Admins will now be able to see events in their Google Drive logs that involve their organization and other external organizations or users. This change will allow Admins to monitor when files that are shared with users that are not in their organization, are […]
Continue ReadingMake sure that you don’t fall for this official-looking Google Forms phishing scam
Over the past few days, we’ve noticed an uptick in the number of fake emails in our inbox, but specifically from individuals attempting to impersonate Google. While this is nothing new, and people have been creating phishing scams for years now, one favorite method hackers have taken to like water is to abuse Google’s official […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Spaces will now let you set descriptions and guidelines and assign manager roles
Google Chat has continued to improve as it prepares to accept more users from the Hangouts migration, and with it, the Spaces feature is now adding new features to help users organize people, topics, and projects. Included in this update is a new “Manager” role, which will let you give additional users greater permissions over […]
Continue ReadingHow to autocomplete a series or a list of numbers, dates, and formulas in Google Sheets
Google Sheets has come a long way over the years. At launch, it lacked many features that statisticians and spreadsheet users came to expect based on decades of Microsoft Excel use. While it’s not even close to Microsoft’s offering, even today, depending on who you ask or how fancy they need to get with it, […]
Continue ReadingGoogle celebrates the adoption of Smart Canvas features, announces more to come
Building off of their announcement back in May of last year which introduced Smart Canvas – a new product experience that delivers the next evolution of collaboration for Google Workspace – Google posted today on The Keyword a summary of all the Smart Canvas features released to date. Additionally, Google boasted of the welcomed adoption […]
Continue ReadingWorkspace: Classic Hangouts migration to Google Chat enters final phase
Google has been warning that the migration from Classic Hangouts to Google Chat was impending and inevitable for Google Workspace customers for some time now. We last reported this back in July when Google warned that it was switching Workspace users from “Chat and classic Hangouts” to “Chat preferred” unless the organization opted out. Google […]
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