What’s changing

Beginning today, Admins can choose from several options when exporting their organization’s data (also known as ‘takeout’). Specifically, they will be able to:

  • Export data from all or multiple services, such as Gmail, Chat, or Drive.
  • Export Drive data based on existing Drive labels
  • Export data from within a specific date range
  • Export data from selected shared drives

What’s changing

Beginning today, Admins can choose from several options when exporting their organization’s data (also known as ‘takeout’). Specifically, they will be able to:

  • Export data from all or multiple services, such as Gmail, Chat, or Drive.
  • Export Drive data based on existing Drive labels
  • Export data from within a specific date range
  • Export data from selected shared drives


Exporting data for specific services

Exporting data based on specific Shared Drives

Exporting data based on specific or custom date range

Exporting data based on specific Drive labels







This update is available in open beta, which means no additional sign-up is required.


Who’s impacted

Admins

Why it’s important

In 2022, we introduced the ability for admins to export user generated content by organizational unit (OU) or group, and prior to that update, data export was limited to a customer’s full set of user generated content. With this update, we continue to give our customers more flexibility and specificity over the data they export, which is important as business and compliance needs evolve.

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What’s changing 

Who’s impacted 

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Getting started 

What’s changing 

Last year, we launched enterprise-grade data protection in the Gemini app for Education Standard and Education Plus customers. As a core service with enterprise-grade data protection, the Gemini app: 
Today, we’re expanding these protections to help more education institutions provide AI tools to their communities with the confidence that their data is private, safe and secure through the following updates: 
NotebookLM and the Gemini app are now Core Services with enterprise-grade data protection for all education customers

Who’s impacted 

Why you’d use it 

Gemini is an AI assistant for education that allows educators to chat with the Gemini app to brainstorm ideas, answer questions quickly, summarize content and more. In addition, students can use the Gemini app to learn more confidently with in-the-moment assistance, practice materials, and real-time feedback. 

NotebookLM is an AI-powered thinking partner that helps you understand anything. It accelerates learning and knowledge sharing, with AI grounded on the documents that matters most to you. Educators and students 18+ can add their lesson plans, education standards, lecture notes and/or course readings to get real-time summaries, guided lesson plans, discussion questions, quizzes and more. They can also generate audio overviews to take learning on the go and make content more accessible, digestible and engaging. 

With NotebookLM Plus, you can allow users to chat with your Notebooks without access to see or edit sources, customize the style and tone of notebook responses, create shared notebooks with usage analytics, and you get 5x more Audio Overviews, queries, notebooks, and sources per notebook. 

Additional details 

Workspace for Education users already had added data protection in the Gemini app and NotebookLM, meaning their data is not human reviewed or used to train AI models. These enterprise-grade data protections build on that to give school administrators peace of mind. 

The Gemini app is available in more than 40 languages and over 230 countries and territories. Teen users get a unique Gemini app experience, which we created after consulting with child development and learning science experts. This included conducting learning focused red teaming, an industry standard testing process to find vulnerabilities in generative AI, and testing with youth advisory panels to ensure we’re bringing this technology to students responsibly. 

NotebookLM and NotebookLM Plus are available in 180+ regions where Gemini API is available and currently supports 35+ languages. For Audio Overviews, while you can upload sources from all supported languages, the spoken audio is currently only available in English. Users can only upload sources from Workspace that they have permission to access. Furthermore, they can control who has access to their notebooks and set more granular permissions within each. Notebooks can only be shared within your organization. 

Getting started 

  • Admins: 
    • New customers: Access to the Gemini app and NotebookLM is OFF by default for Primary and Secondary (K12) customers, and ON by default for Higher Education customers. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning the Gemini app on or off for users.
    • Existing customers: Your existing settings for the Gemini app and NotebookLM (on or off) will not change as part of this launch. Learn more about the available admin controls and our commitment to you in the Privacy Hub. 
  • End users: 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

This update impacts: 
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
  • Customers with a Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on 

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What’s changing 

In addition to the new NotebookLM features announced a few weeks ago, we’re excited to introduce additional updates that improve upon the NotebookLM user experience as it relates to sources. Starting today, you can: 
  • Use the new “Discover sources” functionality to find related sources from the web based on the topic you’re interested in. You can then add these sources to your notebooks, expanding your research and building more comprehensive notebooks. 
  • Use multimodal PDFs as sources with NotebookLM’s enhanced capability to understand all the content within PDFs, which includes text, images and graphs. 

Who’s impacted 

Admins and end users (18+) 

Additional details 

NotebookLM and NotebookLM Plus are available in 180+ regions where Gemini API is available and currently supports 35+ languages. For Audio Overviews, while you can upload sources from all supported languages, the spoken audio is currently only available in English. 

Your uploads, queries and the model's responses are not used to train models and are not reviewed by human reviewers or otherwise used for product improvement without permission. Your data remains your data and any files uploaded, queries and responses are not shared outside your organization’s trust boundary. 

Users can only upload sources from Workspace that they have permission to access. Furthermore, they can control who has access to their notebooks and set more granular permissions within each. 

Getting started 

Rollout pace 

Availability 

These features are available to NotebookLM and NotebookLM Plus users. 

NotebookLM is available as a core service for Google Workspace: 

  • Business Starter 
  • Frontline Starter and Standard 
  • Essentials Starter, Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus 
  • Nonprofits 
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard and Plus 

NotebookLM Plus is available as a core service for Google Workspace: 
  • Business Standard and Plus 
  • Enterprise Standard and Plus 

NotebookLM Plus is available as a core service for Google Workspace for Education customers with these add-ons: 
  • Gemini Education 
  • Gemini Education Premium 

Anyone who previously purchased these add-ons will also receive NotebookLM Plus as a core service: 
  • Gemini Business* 
  • Gemini Enterprise* 
*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.


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What’s changing

Workspace apps (formerly known as Workspace Extensions) for the Gemini app will soon transition from open beta to general availability. We know that switching between apps to complete tasks can be tedious and time consuming, so with Gemini now able to connect across your apps, like Gmail, Docs, Calendar, and Drive, it can provide more context to your prompts and help you be more productive. 

What’s changing

Workspace apps (formerly known as Workspace Extensions) for the Gemini app will soon transition from open beta to general availability. We know that switching between apps to complete tasks can be tedious and time consuming, so with Gemini now able to connect across your apps, like Gmail, Docs, Calendar, and Drive, it can provide more context to your prompts and help you be more productive. 


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As part of this transition, we will turn the Workspace apps admin setting ON by default. We expect general availability to begin rolling out by the end of April 2025. Starting today, admins can decide whether access is ON or OFF when the feature becomes generally available using the new “Allow access to Workspace apps after Beta (upcoming general availability)” setting.

Providing the admin setting ahead of general availability provides admins time to review their configuration ahead of the launch:

  • No action is required if you want Workspace apps to remain “ON” for users with the Gemini app enabled.
  • If you do not want your users to access Workspace apps in the Gemini app or have custom settings at the user, group, or organizational unit (OU) levels, please configure the “Allow access to Workspace apps after Beta (upcoming general availability)” setting as soon as possible.

Additional details

  • Workspace apps are only available to users 18+.
  • Google Workspace apps honors access control settings for files within Drive, meaning users can only access files that they own or have been shared with them (excluding files shared via Shared Drive).
  • Your use of Gemini with Workspace apps is governed by your organization’s Workspace agreement, including the Cloud Data Processing Addendum. Your chats and uploaded files in Gemini app won’t be reviewed by human reviewers or otherwise used to train generative AI models without your permission. Refer here for more detail.
  • The beta setting, “Allow access to Workspace apps in Beta (current phase)”, will be removed from the admin console once the feature becomes generally available.
  • Workspace apps are not available to Google Workspace users accessing Gemini as an additional Google service.
  • This update does not impact your current Gemini app service setting.

Getting started

  • Admins: Review and update the Workspace apps setting before the general availability expected to begin at the end of April. Visit the Help Center for more information on turning Workspace apps in Gemini on or off.
  • End users: If enabled by your admin, connecting Google Workspace allows users 18 and older to summarize, get quick answers, and find information from apps and services like Gmail, Docs, and Drive directly in Gemini. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Google Workspace apps.

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Availability

Available for Google Workspace:
  • Business Starter, Standard, Plus
  • Enterprise Starter, Standard, Plus
  • Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus
  • Frontline Starter and Standard
  • Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus
  • Nonprofits
Available for Google Workspace customers with these add-ons:
  • Gemini Business*
  • Gemini Enterprise*
  • Gemini Education
  • Gemini Education Premium

*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details.

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What’s changing

If you’re joining a meeting from a Logitech Rally Bar, Rally Bar Mini, and Rally Bar Huddle device, you can now take advantage of the devices built-in continuous framing. When enabled, the camera will continuously adjust to optimally frame those in the meeting room, including participants coming and leaving the room. 

What’s changing

If you’re joining a meeting from a Logitech Rally Bar, Rally Bar Mini, and Rally Bar Huddle device, you can now take advantage of the devices built-in continuous framing. When enabled, the camera will continuously adjust to optimally frame those in the meeting room, including participants coming and leaving the room. 


The feature can be selected and used by meeting participants directly from the touch controller.


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  • Available to all Google Workspace customers with Logitech Rally Bar and Logitech Rally Bar Mini camera systems. 

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