Google Workspace Changes

Backup and Sync users should begin transitioning to Drive for desktop

Now, we want to provide a more detailed timeline for this transition

A new experience for Google Contacts which will help Google Workspace users learn more about their colleagues.

Introducing a new experience for Google Contacts which will help Google Workspace users learn more about their colleagues. Within Contacts or the Contacts sidebar, you can view more detailed information about others, including their management chain, department, and title, A history of your Workspace relationship, including email conversations and meetings.

You can now enable audit logging for Google Cloud Search APIs for improved tracking of usage data.

With deeper tracking, it's now possible to build richer analytics on top of Cloud Search usage to make data driven decisions and improve your user’s search experience.

Enhanced content classification and DLP with Drive labels beta.

Drive labels enable admins to configure custom labels for a domain, and then enable users to apply these labels to files in Drive. Automated classification can help organizations automatically add Drive labels to content based on administrator-defined rules and predefined content detectors.

Workspace admins can monitor and analyze their organizations’ Keep activity with audit logs and a new API for Keep.

Workspace admins can monitor and analyze their organizations’ Keep activity, starting today, admins will see audit logs for user activity in Google Keep in the Admin console. The API will allow admins and admin-enabled apps to manage Keep access controls for an organization, enabling support for cases such as enterprise data protection.

Gmail exports in Vault now include a new CSV metadata file

Now when you create Gmail exports in Google Vault, you will get a new CSV-formatted file of the export metadata in addition to the XML file you currently receive.

Cloud Search now supports Optical Character Recognition (OCR) based text extraction for PDFs that contain images.

This makes PDFs with images containing text, such as scanned documents, easily searchable by users and improving discoverability of such PDFs.

Restrict Google Drive for desktop to company owned devices, now generally available

You can now restrict the use of Google Drive for desktop to company owned devices. This functionality was previously available in beta.

We’re adding the ability to boost Google Cloud Search results using the Cloud Search Query API for third party data sources.

By providing a wide range of contextual attributes, users will see more tailored results based on inputs such as location, department, and job role.

Apply context-aware access policies to mobile and desktop applications

Admins can now assign existing or new context-aware access levels to Google desktop and mobile applications.

Google Vault now supports Google Sites

You can use Google Vault to set retention policies for Google Sites, perform searches of Google Sites data, and export Google Sites content.

We’re introducing support for Virtual Private Cloud Service Controls (VPC-SC) for Google Cloud Search.

You can use these controls to define a service perimeter around Google Cloud Search resources and create policies to grant access based on contextual attributes.

Changes to Google Drive search operators may alter your Google Vault search results

We’ve updated Google Drive Search operators to enable better results when searching for files in Google Vault.

Updates on how to sync Google Drive content to your computer

In the coming months, we’ll make some changes to the solutions we offer to access Google Drive files and keep them in sync on your desktop.

Additional language support for live captions in Google Meet

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.