“Your account only lets you use Meet to join other people's meetings. To create your own meetings, use a G Suite account that's enabled for Meet."
This message is already shown to users on the web. It will primarily reach non-G Suite users’ accounts, but admins may receive requests from their users who do not have Meet enabled for their domain and/or organizational unit.
Launch Details Release track: Launching to both Rapid Release and Scheduled Release
Editions: Available to all G Suite editions Rollout pace: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility)
You can find our full list of pre-integrated applications, as well as instructions for installing them, in the Help Center.
Note that apart from the pre-integrated SAML applications, G Suite also supports installing “Custom SAML Applications,” which means that admins can install any third-party application that supports SAML. The advantage of a pre-integrated app is that the installation is much easier. You can learn more about installing Custom SAML Applications in this Help Center article.
Launch Details Release track: Launching to both Rapid Release and Scheduled Release Editions: Available to all G Suite editions
Rollout pace: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility)
Impact: Admins only Action: Admin action suggested/FYI
The Table menu will be removed. Options to add or remove a table will be in the Insert menu. Options to format tables will be in the Format menu.
In the Slide menu, four options for moving slides will be moved to a new “Move” submenu.
In the Arrange menu, "Align horizontally" and "Align vertically" will be moved into a new "Align" submenu.
Changes that only affect Google Docs menus and toolbars:
In the toolbar, text color and highlight color will be split into separate controls for each.
In the toolbar, a new option will be added to “Insert image”
The Table menu will be removed. Options to add or remove a table will be in the Insert menu. Options to format tables will be in the Format menu.
Changes that affect all Docs editors menus (including Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets):
Items in the Insert menu will be reordered.
These changes will only affect the visual menu on the web version of these products. All options will still be available via keyboard shortcuts and the search box in the Help menu.
Launch Details Release track: Launching to Rapid Release, with Scheduled Release coming in two weeks
Editions: Available to all G Suite editions
Rollout pace: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) Impact: All end users
For example, a user can check if a coworker has seen a file already and alert them that it’s been updated. Or an account manager can judge the best way to follow up with a partner, depending on whether that partner has viewed the materials they previously sent.
As of March 7th, G Suite administrators have access to new Admin console settings to control the Activity dashboard feature for their domain or the organizational units (OUs) within it. On March 21st, end users will begin to see Activity dashboard in Docs, Sheets, and Slides. See the “Release schedule” section below for more information.
Understand when user viewing data will be visible
A file’s Activity dashboard contains viewing data, which is information on who viewed the file and when they viewed it. The viewing data that’s shown in the dashboard depends on both your organization’s Admin console settings and a user’s individual settings:
As an admin, you can determine whether viewing data from your organization’s users is shown in Activity dashboard. Specifically, you can choose to make viewing data for your organization’s users visible, not visible, or only visible within your organization. See the “Review and change your organization’s Activity dashboard settings” section below for more information.
If you make viewing data visible for your organization, your users can still choose to exclude their individual viewing data from showing in Activity dashboard via their personal privacy settings. If an admin makes their organization’s viewing data not visible, your end users won’t be able to choose to share their viewing data. See the “End user controls for Activity dashboard” section below for more info.
Users with edit access to a file and who belong to the same domain as the file’s owner will be able to see that file’s Activity dashboard and any viewing data which is available in it.
Review and change your organization’s Activity dashboard settings
Admin controls for Activity dashboard are now available in the Admin console. There are three options:
On: Activity dashboards show all user views, unless individual users hide their information.
On - Only within your domain: Your users’ viewing information is only visible in Activity dashboards of files owned by users in your domain and to other users within your domain, unless individual users hide their information. Your users’ viewing data will not be visible in Activity dashboards of files owned by users in other domains.
Off: Your users’ viewing data will not show up in Activity dashboard for any file. Your users may be able to see whether external users have viewed their files, depending on the Activity dashboard settings of those external users.
When Activity dashboard becomes available to your users, they’ll see a notification in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides that explains the feature and their control options. Activity dashboard will only show viewing data for a user after they see this notification. It will not display any activity from before they saw it.
All users will have access to privacy settings that allow them to control whether their views show up in Activity dashboard at any time. For more information and to change settings, users can see the Activity dashboard Help Center article for users.
Release schedule
Admin console settings are available now. Activity dashboard will start to become available to users in two weeks:
If your domain is on the Rapid Release track, Activity dashboard will not be available to end users before March 21st. Due to a gradual rollout, all Rapid Release domains may not have access to the feature for up to two weeks after that.
If your domain is on the Scheduled Release track, Activity dashboard will not be available to end users before April 9th. Due to a gradual rollout, all domains may not have access to the feature for up to two weeks after that.
Over time we’ll add features to Activity dashboard to provide more insights into activity on the file and to make it easier to communicate with collaborators directly from Activity dashboard.
Admin console settings are available today to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains.
User-facing feature will begin to roll out to Rapid Release domains in two weeks and to Scheduled Release domains in five weeks.
Editions:
Activity dashboard access: Available to G Suite Business, Enterprise, Education, and Nonprofit editions only. Users will be able to see the Activity dashboard for a file if they have edit access to that file.
Activity dashboard viewing data visibility settings: All users have access to privacy settings for Activity dashboard, as data from users in all G Suite editions can appear in the dashboard.
Rollout pace: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility)
Customers subscribed to G Suite Education, G Suite Business, and G Suite Enterprise editions can enable user auto-provisioning in all supported applications. Customers on G Suite Basic, G Suite Government, and G Suite Nonprofit can configure auto-provisioning for up to three applications from the supported list. For more information on how to set up auto-provisioning, check out the Help Center.
Launch Details Release track: Launching to both Rapid Release and Scheduled Release
Editions:
G Suite Education, Business, and Enterprise customers can enable auto-provisioning for all supported applications
G Suite Basic, Government, and Nonprofit customers can enable auto-provisioning for up to three applications
Rollout pace: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) '
Searching for content by owner is the most popular way to search for content in Drive today. The new interface will use artificial intelligence to predict the people and files that you’re most likely to search for and make them more visible. We hope that this will help you find the files you’re looking for more quickly.
The predictions will improve as the system learns how it’s used. We’re also working on more features which will use artificial intelligence and machine learning to make it easier to find files and collaborate more efficiently in Drive. Look out for more over the next few months.
Launch Details Release track: Launching to Rapid Release, with Scheduled Release coming in 2 weeks
Editions: Available to all G Suite editions
Rollout pace: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility)
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