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Happy Tuesday Admins! We’re back with quite a bit of material to cover after skipping a week for the holiday in the U.S., so let’s dig in:
- Improvements in Google Meet will now automatically detect if you’re joining from a Virtual Desktop Interface and adjust for the best performance.
- Google Cloud Search customers can use the Cloud Search Query API to set Suggest Filters to enhance Cloud Search results.
- We’re excited to announce a requested feature: resize the pivot table editor side panel when creating or editing a pivot table in Google Sheets!
- Improvements to Gmail include better search results for Gmail on the web based on your recent Gmail search activity.
- If you are presenting or joining a Google Meet from a file, you can now easily share that file with meeting attendees through in-meeting chat.
The latest content and resources
- Check out the Office Hours recap with our Appsheet Community for new AppSheet databases, no-code Chat Apps, app templates, and FAQs.
- Learn how to protect sensitive information from unauthorized or accidental sharing by using confidential mode in Gmail.
- Watch our video on how to view edit history for cells in Google Sheets.
- It’s a holiday miracle: you can now print emojis from Google Sheets in PDFs! 🖨😎
- Pexip’s new Room Connector feature provides Google Meet interoperability for all your meeting room video conferencing systems!
- The wait is over: respond with custom emojis in Google Chat! 🤯
- Read how MullenLowe Group uses Google Workspace to collaborate more efficiently and securely when serving their clients in more than 90 offices and 65 countries.
- Watch this quick short on how Trust Rules give more control over how files are shared both within and outside your organization.
- See how the admin chatbot makes your domain verification easier with 3 simple steps.
- Even though Gmail blocks 99.9% of spam, phishing, and malware - please read which 5 scams to watch out for this holiday season.
- Watch this quick video on how to assign a task in Gmail.
- Want a more automated way to receive Workspace Updates than reading my articles? Here’s a step-by-step tutorial for using the IMPORTFEED function to import the Google Workspace Product Updates RSS feed.
- Read our approach to security for Workspace in the hybrid world: The future of work, powered by the future of security.
- See what our Chief Workspace Evangelist, Michael Brenzel, has to say about the 5 Challenges that Keep HR departments awake at night.
Just for Fun
- We have an amazing Coachella lineup this year.
- Check out how our partner Mitchell got his perfect holiday photo using Google Meet!
- Too many classes or projects to keep track of? The Assignment Tracker Template in Google Sheets will give you an A+ in organization.
- Use Google Keep for your holiday shopping.
- More fun: use Google Drive sharing capabilities to share your holiday recipes!
- How do you add 3 separate GWS “instances” under the same GWS account?
- Is there a way to assign PINs (inside of Google admin console) to students using Chromebooks that are managed by our school domain?
- We’d love to see you at our webinar on December 14th: Google Workspace for Frontline Workers.
This was a lot of updates to catch up on, so let us know what you like hearing about the most! See you next week for more.
