Google Workspace Changes

Send group membership information in outbound SAML responses

We’re adding the ability for admins to configure and send group membership information as part of SAML responses.

Add personal tasks from Google Chat

In Google Chat, you can now create personal tasks from individual or group messages. These will then be viewable by you in Google Tasks, the quick-access side panel, and Google Calendar if the task has a set date.

Set up SSO profiles for multiple third-party identity providers with the Multi-IdP SSO beta launch

You can further customize authentication by setting up single sign-on (SSO) profiles for multiple identity providers and then configuring authentication for each group or OU.

We’re improving search rankings in Cloud Search by taking into account document popularity.

This means documents that have been clicked on by a large number of users will be prioritized in the overall search rankings.

We’re now adding several new features to the IDE to help achieve functional parity with the legacy IDE experience: Script Properties, Add-on Testing, Time Zone Setting, Rhino Debugging.

We’re now adding several new features to the IDE to help achieve functional parity with the legacy IDE experience. These features are: Script Properties, Add-on Testing, Time Zone Setting, Rhino Debugging.

New AppSheet and Apps Script connector which allows you to extend custom, no-code apps to integrate and automate workflows across Google Workspace.

We’re introducing a new AppSheet and Apps Script connector which allows you to extend custom, no-code apps to integrate and automate workflows across Google Workspace.

The new emoji reactions feature provides a less formal alternative to comments to express your opinions about document content.

Giving and receiving feedback is a key collaborative workflow in Google Docs. The new emoji reactions feature provides a less formal alternative to comments to express your opinions about document content.

Improved announcements for braille comments and highlights in Google Docs

Improved how comments and highlighted text are announced with braille support enabled in Google Docs. This change makes it easier for users of assistive technology, including screen readers and refreshable braille displays, to interact with comments in documents and identify text with background colors.

You can now use People Search in Google Cloud Search to find people within your organization with a simple search query.

You can search for a person based on any profile attribute such as name, email, location or roles. You can also search for a person based on custom fields or a combination of attributes.

New intelligent content-based detection and additional regional security detectors for data loss prevention.

Admins can use data loss prevention to create and apply rules to control what content your users can share in Google Drive files outside your organization, helping to prevent unintended exposure of sensitive information. These additional detectors, along with intelligent based scanning, help to further secure your environment and sensitive data.

We're introducing document previews for Cloud Search, allowing users to preview search results before opening the file.

With this capability, you can be more confident about the link you are clicking on by getting a sneak peek into the document and avoid clicking on non-relevant results.

Classic Hangouts will be upgraded to Google Chat beginning March 22, 2022.

Beginning March 22, 2022, the “Chat preferred” setting will be turned on for any customers who haven’t already done so, making Google Chat the default chat application. This means that when users visit classic Hangouts in Gmail on the web or the classic Hangouts mobile apps, they’ll be directed to Chat. Hangouts.google.com will continue to work.

Automated classification with Google Workspace DLP and labels-driven sharing restrictions are now generally available.

Automated classification with Google Workspace DLP and labels-driven sharing restrictions are now generally available. A new Admin console setting can now automatically apply up to 5 labels to all new files your users create, or to all newly created files owned by specific parts of your organization.

Automated classification of Google Drive files using DLP rules.

Automated classification is now generally available, enabling organizations to automatically add Drive labels to content based on administrator-defined DLP rules and predefined content detectors. This allows admins to configure rules that warn users or block external sharing, downloads, and printing for files labeled as confidential or internal.

Automated classification with Google Workspace DLP and labels-driven sharing restrictions are now generally available.

A new Admin console setting can now automatically apply up to 5 labels to all new files your users create, or to all newly created files owned by specific parts of your organization. Automated classification can help organizations automatically add Drive labels to content based on administrator-defined DLP rules and predefined content detectors.