Google Workspace Updates

fredag 18 december 2020

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - December 18, 2020

New updates

Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are fully launched or in the process of rolling out (rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete), launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time (if not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete), and available to all Google Workspace and G Suite customers.

Set as away available on Android

You can now set your status to "away" in Chat in Gmail on Android. This was previously available on iOS and the web. | Available to Workspace Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus, as well as G Suite Basic, Business, Education, Enterprise for Education, and Nonprofits customers only. | Learn more.

Previous announcements

The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

Improved Google Meet experience on the Nest Hub Max

We’re making several updates to improve the experience of using Meet on the Nest Hub Max smart display, available in beta. | Learn more.

New endpoint details view in Meet Quality Tool

We’ve added a new drill-down view in Meet Quality Tool in the Admin console that shows additional details on connection endpoint level. | Learn more.

Additional language support for live captions in Google Meet

We’re expanding live captions in Google Meet to French, German, Portuguese and Spanish (Spain and Latin America) speakers. They were previously only available in English. | Learn more.

Turn Google Meet Quick access on or off from Google Calendar

Meeting organizers in G Suite for Education and Enterprise for Education domains can turn Quick access on or off for a meeting from the event in Google Calendar. | Learn more.

Adding more data sources and new OU controls to the security investigation tool

We’re enhancing the security investigation tool with new Google Chat, Google Meet, Google Groups, Google Voice, and Google Calendar logs and organizational unit (OU) filters so queries can be limited to specific OUs. | Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus and G Suite Enterprise for Education customers only. | Learn more.

onsdag 16 december 2020

Adding more data sources and new OU controls to the security investigation tool

Quick launch summary

The security investigation tool is a resource in the Google Workspace security center that can help you identify, triage, and take action on security and privacy issues in your domain. We’re now enhancing the tool with:

New Google Chat, Google Meet, Google Groups, Google Voice, and Google Calendar logs.
Organizational unit (OU) filters so queries can be limited to specific OUs.

We hope that this will help you understand important activity in your domain and take action from within the investigation tool.

Getting started

Admins: These enhancements will be available by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about the security investigation tool.
End users: No end user impact.

You can now use Chat, Meet, Groups, Voice, and Calendar logs as data sources in the security investigation tool.

You can now filter by OU in the security investigation tool

Rollout pace

Available now

Availability

Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Plus and G Suite Enterprise for Education customers
Not available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Standard, as well as G Suite Basic, Business, Education, and Nonprofits customers

Resources

tisdag 15 december 2020

Turn Google Meet Quick access on or off from Google Calendar

Update

This post has been updated to reflect a change in rollout pace. It is now an extended rollout (longer than 15 days for feature visibility), which we expect to complete in January 2021. We previously stated it would be a full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on December 15, 2020.

Quick launch summary

Meeting organizers in G Suite for Education and Enterprise for Education domains can now turn Quick access on or off for a meeting from the event in Google Calendar. The Quick access setting helps organizers control if participants must ask to join the video meeting. By adding controls to calendar events, organizers can configure the setting appropriately in advance of the meeting. Previously, the setting could only be controlled via the Host controls menu during the meeting.

As announced last week, the Quick access setting is now “sticky” for recurring meetings. That means that if you change the setting—either before the meeting via Google Calendar or during the meeting via in-call settings—it will be saved for any future meetings that use the same meeting code.

Control Quick access from the event in Google Calendar

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users: Quick access is turned ON by default for all meetings. It can be turned off or on for each meeting, and any changes will be saved for future meetings that use the same meeting code. Visit our Help Center to learn more about Quick access.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on December 15, 2020

Availability

Available to G Suite for Education and Enterprise for Education customers
Not available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus, as well as G Suite Basic, Business, and Nonprofits customers

Resources

Google Help: Control access to a video meeting with Quick access

tisdag 15 december 2020

Additional language support for live captions in Google Meet

Quick launch summary

We’re expanding live captions in Google Meet to French, German, Portuguese and Spanish (Spain and Latin America) speakers. They were previously only available in English. Live captions allow deaf and hard of hearing users, users with different primary languages, and users in noisy environments to participate more fully in meetings.

During a Meet call, each video call participant will be able to select the meeting’s spoken language when enabling captions.

Choose your captions language in Google Meet.

Captions setting will also be “sticky.” This means that if you turn them on or off during a meeting, they will be saved, along with the chosen language, for future meetings.

Non-English captions are currently available on the web to APAC and EMEA countries only, with rollout to North America and Latin America coming in early 2021. Additionally we’ll also expand support to iOS and Android mobile apps in early 2021.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users: This feature will be available by default in APAC and EMEA countries. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using captions in Meet.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on December 15, 2020

Availability

Available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus, as well as G Suite Basic, Business, Education, Enterprise for Education, and Nonprofits customers. Also available to users with personal Google Accounts.

Resources

Google Help: Use captions in a video call

måndag 14 december 2020

New endpoint details view in Meet Quality Tool

What’s changing

We’ve added a new drill-down view in Meet Quality Tool that shows additional details on connection endpoint level. By clicking an endpoint in the meeting timeline, admins can now also view:

User video mute/unmute activity
Network protocol changes (UDP, TCP)
Network connection type (wired, Wi-Fi, cellular connections)
For participants admitted after knocking, who admitted them
For participants who were ejected from the meeting, who ejected them
End-of-call quality rating (when submitted)

For still ongoing meetings, the timeline and drill-down are loaded with near-real-time values.

Who’s impacted

Admins

Why it’s important

A combination of many technical factors and activities affect the perceived quality of a meeting. This additional level of information about meetings helps admins become more effective in improving the meeting quality for their users.

Getting started

Admins: These new details are available by default when viewing any meeting in the Meet Quality Tool. You can click any connection endpoint in the timeline to bring up the endpoint details view.

Hovering over an event shows additional details and a timestamp for the event.

End users: This feature doesn’t impact end users.

Rollout pace

This feature is available now for all users.

Availability

Available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus, as well as G Suite Basic, Business, Education, Enterprise for Education, and Nonprofits customers