Try them out today, and see how much more you can do.
Please note that Android add-ons will the respect same administrative controls as web add-ons. For more information on enabling and deploying add-ons within your organization, check out the Help Center.
Launch Details Release track: Launching to both Rapid release and Scheduled release
Rollout pace: Gradual rollout (potentially longer than 3 days for feature visibility)
Group chat participants can now share a link to invite others to join the chat. This is particularly useful for onboarding new team members to a project, or to reach everyone in a mailing list. Rather than adding everyone at once, people can opt-in to the group chat.
Search for groups from your Google Hangouts contacts list
In order to make it easier to get to your group chats, you can also easily find your group conversations by searching for the group name or participant name.
Additional controls to manage group chat access
When team members leave a project, it may be necessary to remove them from group chats. Now, anyone who is directly invited to a chat will be able to remove others from the group chat, removing that person’s access to the chat history and notifying the group participants. Only by being directly invited back by someone already in the group, can the former member rejoin the chat.
Link sharing and removing from groups on Google Hangouts is now available on all platforms. Group search is already available on Android and will be coming to the web and iOS soon. Finally, we’re looking at additional ways to make group conversations even better in the future, so please stay tuned.
Launch Details Release track: Launching to both Rapid release and Scheduled release
Rollout pace: Gradual rollout (potentially longer than 3 days for feature visibility)
Designed to be simple and efficient, Training for Google Apps is a new interactive in-app learning experience to help users get quickly up and running with Google Apps. Built on the Google Cloud Platform, Training for Google Apps acts like a virtual coach inside of the Google Apps interface. Users have access to voice and text interactive modules that are searchable by topic within any of the Google Apps products, which includes Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Google+, and even Classroom.
Modules are available in Japanese, German, Chinese, English, French, and more.
How can Training for Google Apps help me?
Based on our customer studies, we’ve seen that organizations that deploy Training for Google Apps see an average of 35 percent higher adoption across Apps products. Here are a few examples of things you can quickly get your admins and end-users trained on:
Setting up your email signature
Recovering Deleted Email
Set Expiring Dates for Shared Documents
And hundreds more
Learn about key features right inside the app!
Whether it’s to master Google Apps, Google Classroom or the Google Apps Admin console, Training for Google Apps can help your entire organization.
Here’s how to get started
Training for Google Apps can be deployed quickly and easily to all your Chrome and ChromeOS users, all from the Google Apps Admin console. You can use Chrome Management (available to all Google Apps customers) to centrally manage installation of the extension. Please see our Help Center article for more information.
We look forward to hearing how you’ll use Training for Google Apps to help your users with the critical task of change management and application support.
Launch Details Release track: Launching to both Rapid release and Scheduled release
Rollout pace: Full rollout (1-3 days for feature visibility)
Impact: All end users (if deployed by Administrator) Action: Change management suggested/FYI (Resources provided below in the Help Center.)
Update (August 5th, 2016): Please note that this feature is only available when making copies in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides; the option does not appear in Google Drive. Launch Details Release track: Launching to Rapid release, with Scheduled release coming in two weeks Rollout pace: Gradual rollout (potentially longer than 3 days for feature visibility)
Impact: All end users
Action: Change management suggested/FYI
Note: all launches are applicable to all Google Apps editions unless otherwise noted
Delegated admins can download the app from the Google Play Store. Once downloaded, those admins will only have access to those features that correspond to their delegated responsibilities. For instance, an admin who does not have permission to manage Google Groups will not see the Groups option in their app.
If you've been pining for a way to update your users' email signatures with a different inspirational quote each day or enable "Out of Office" auto-replies when their calendars are marked as busy, then you're in luck. Today, we're extending the Gmail API with new endpoints for managing settings. These new endpoints cover the following features:
Filters
Forwarding addresses and auto-forwarding
IMAP and POP settings
Send-as aliases
Signatures
Vacation responder
With this update, we're equipping developers with some new tools that have never been available in any previous Google API. These include the ability to:
Retrieve and update signatures for send-as aliases
Configure forwarding to external addresses
Configure send-as aliases that send mail through external providers
Use HTML in vacation messages
Manipulate settings for gmail.com accounts
Over time we'll continue to expand the API with additional settings features such as support for managing mailbox delegates, so stay tuned for more announcements.
Get started now
Most of the settings endpoints are available for any Google Apps or Gmail account, but a few sensitive operations, such as modifying send-as aliases or forwarding, are restricted to service accounts with domain-wide authority. See the reference docs for more details and to get started.
What about the existing Email Settings API in the Admin SDK?
This update to the Gmail API effectively replaces the older Email Settings API, so we're also announcing its deprecation today and will turn it down fully on July 7, 2017. We've put together a migration guide to assist clients in porting their existing integrations over to their newer counterparts in the Gmail API. If you have any issues, check out the gmail-api tag on StackOverflow.
We look forward to seeing what you build with these new features in the Gmail API!
Note: all launches are applicable to all Google Apps editions unless otherwise noted
In the Google Cloud Community, connect with Googlers and other Google Workspace admins like yourself. Participate in product discussions, check out the Community Articles, and learn tips and tricks that will make your work and life easier. Be the first to know what's happening with Google Workspace.
On the “What’s new in Google Workspace?” Help Center page, learn about new products and features launching in Google Workspace, including smaller changes that haven’t been announced on the Google Workspace Updates blog.
