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Welcome to our monthly Community Roundup series! Check out our latest Google Workspace Community news, upcoming events, top contributors, and feature updates.
July 19th: Preparing for your Professional Workspace Administrator Certification
Take the next step in your career by earning the Professional Google Workspace Administrator Certification and distinguish yourself among your peers!
Get prepared for the exam by joining us on July 19th at 8AM PT to learn how the Professional Google Workspace Administrator certification helps validate Workspace expertise, elevate careers, and transform business. Hear from Jason Butler, Workspace Deployment Engineer and Pod Lead at SADA about how he prepared for the exam and how becoming Google certified has advanced his career.
Please complete this form to register for the event and ask your questions in advance. Once registered, you'll receive a calendar invite via email. Even if you can't make it live, register anyway and we'll send you a link to the recording.
July 13th: Google Workspace Admin 101 Resource Guide
Join the Google Workspace Customer Success team on July 13th at 9AM PT for a resource guide walkthrough to kickstart and accelerate your Workspace Admin learning journey.
With an always evolving toolkit of resources, get equipped with what resources exist and where to start. Topics the team will cover in this session include:
- How to tailor your learning journey and your team's
- How to best leverage support channels and find answers
- Where to find deployment guides, customer stories, product release updates, and more
Please complete this form to register for the event and ask your questions in advance. Once registered, you'll receive a calendar invite via email. Even if you can't make it live, register anyway and we'll send you a link to the recording.
Google Workspace Ask Me Anything: Cloud Identity
Have questions about Cloud Identity?
Then join us for our new Google Workspace Ask Me Anything series kicking off on July 26th, where you’ll have the chance to ask questions and receive answers live from Workspace experts. In this first session, @goldyarora, Google Workspace Specialist, will cover:
- What is Google Cloud Identity?
- How can it help your business?
- What are the latest Cloud Identity updates and new features?
Tuesday Tips roundup: Admin essentials
We hope you've been enjoying our new series of Tuesday Tips! June's theme was all about Admin Essentials, where we shared our top resources and best practices to help admins make the most of Google Workspace in their organizations. Here's a roundup of June's Tuesday Tips:
- Familiarize yourself with admin essentials
- Stay up-to-date on the latest in Google Workspace
- Enable your Google Workspace end users
- Learn from Google Workspace Community members
⭐ Bonus tip: Bookmark the posts above so you can quickly refer back to these resources at any time.
Next month's theme is frontline workers. What topics do you want us to focus on next? 🤔 Please let us know in the comments!
In the words of Kerry Washington, "Google Workspace has it handled"
Regardless of what type of business you have to get done, in the words of Kerry Washington, Google Workspace “has it handled.”
Check out the video below to see how she's using Google Workspace, plus everything we can handle for your business here.
How to improve developer agility and efficiency with Google Workspace
Our customers who build software say that they value Google Workspace for its ability to drive innovation and collaboration throughout the entire software development life cycle. Developers can:
- Hold standups and scrums in Google Chat, Meet, and Spaces
- Create and collaborate on requirements documentation in Google Docs and Sheets
- Build team presentations in Google Slides
- Manage their focus time and availability with Google Calendar
Learn more about how to improve developer agility and efficiency with Google Workspace here.
Google Workspace Admin FAQs: User management
Earlier this year, the Google Workspace Team hosted a series of “Meet the Expert” webinars designed to help Google Workspace admins make the most of your account and set your organization up for success.
This session focused on how to manage users for your Google Workspace account. The experts covered how to:
- Add a user to Google Workspace
- Manage users in the Admin Console
- View and restore a recently deleted user
- Add and update users in bulk
- Download user files to validate updates
- Transfer unmanaged users to Google Workspace
In case you missed it, no worries! We’ve documented all the questions and answers that were covered during the session for easy reference.
If you have any questions that are not addressed here, please comment directly below and our team (or someone from the Community) can help you out. Plus, follow @AskWorkspace on Twitter to receive timely support and quick self-help tips.
Attention aspiring app creators! Join us on July 26th for a live guided course on AppSheet essentials
Join the AppSheet team for a guided course taking you step-by-step through building an app in the AppSheet platform, plus the opportunity to ask questions and receive answers live.
During this course, you’ll gain experience with many fundamental skills used in the AppSheet platform. At the end of the course, you’ll have built an intermediate-level app and gained the AppSheet knowledge needed to create a wide range of useful apps to enhance your business.
Top five contributors in June
We love to see how many of you are eager to participate in the Community's discussions. Let’s take a quick look at who contributed the most by replies authored and topics published in the month of June. Please meet our top five contributors:
Thank you @icrew, @Jan-Carlos, @kim_nilsson, @JasonTM1, and @chris_barrow4!
Plus, our special shoutout for this month goes out to @Jan-Carlos for the most authored solutions this month. Thank you!
Are you ready to become our next top contributor? Learn all about how to contribute to the Community here.
Top three conversations in June
Here are our most popular discussions in the Google Cloud Community over the past month:
- Mac Spotlight not indexing Google Drive files in desktop
- 👋 Introduce Yourself!
- No cost option waiting list
Looking for more topics and discussions? Visit our Google Workspace forums and join the conversation or start something new.
Community feature updates in June
The Community team continues to work hard to improve the Community based on your valuable feedback. Below is an overview of the recent updates to our Community features. Let us know what you think of these updates with a comment below! We’d love to hear from you.
Notification bell
We are thrilled to announce the immediate availability of the Notification Bell! With the Notification Bell, we hope to provide you with quicker access to your latest notifications without having to go to the notifications page every time.
The Notification Bell can be found directly to the left of your profile picture on the top right corner of the screen. As you navigate through the Community, you’ll be alerted to any new notifications via the red circle and number over the bell icon as shown in the image below.
For more details on the Notification Bell, please review the announcement post.
New gallery view for the Workspace Community blog
We've updated the format of the Workspace Community blog so you can see up to nine articles on a page in a gallery view, whereas previously you could only see three articles until you had to click to load the next page.
Have a topic you want our experts to cover in a Community blog? Let us know in the comments!
Help text for preference options
Within “My Settings>Preferences>Preference Options,” added a hover over icon that provides help text to explain the impact of enabling or adjusting the various options.
Solution accepted notifications
When there were multiple replies on a topic and only one was marked as a solution, each user that had a reply was getting a notification that their reply was marked as a solution. This has been fixed so only the person who commented with the accepted solution receives that notification.
For more information, see the June Release Notes post here.
We hope you enjoy our new feature updates and thank you to all our Community members who continue to make this space an engaging and informative place to be. If you have any feedback, please feel free to add your thoughts to the Community Feedback forum here or add a comment directly to this post.
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Thanks everyone. Until next time!
The Google Cloud Community Team
