As a G Suite admin, it can be difficult to stay on top of the various new products and features we launch on a regular (often daily!) basis. Reading the G Suite Updates blog is a great start, but the blog doesn’t provide a quick snapshot and doesn’t cover some smaller feature changes. To help you better track the breadth of G Suite launches, including those that aren’t announced on the G Suite Updates blog, we’ve created a new resource: What’s new in G Suite?

This Help Center article includes a list of new G Suite products and features, all of which are added soon after they’re made available to customers on both the Rapid and Scheduled Release tracks. Sort the list by product or week of release, or search for a particular term to find related launches. Click on the “Learn more” links for additional details.

We hope this new resource will make it easier for you to track G Suite launches and communicate them to your organizations. We’d love to hear your thoughts as we continue to iterate and improve, so please use this form to provide any feedback.

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With Project Fi, we aim to provide a wireless service that helps you get a high-quality connection wherever you are—at home, on the go, or even abroad. We’ve designed the service to intelligently shift between networks so you’re always connected to the best available signal, whether that's Wi-Fi or one of our three 4G LTE partner networks.

While Project Fi had been available to users with @gmail.com addresses, starting today we’re making G Suite compatible with Project Fi, allowing users (currently US only) to sign up with their G Suite accounts (e.g. you@yourdomain.com). Project Fi is off by default, so G Suite admins will need to enable Project Fi in the Admin console.

Note: Project Fi limits group plans to six users; it is not designed for large enterprises.

Check out the Help Center for more information.

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Release track: 
Launching to both Rapid release and Scheduled release

Editions: 
Available to all G Suite editions in the US only

Rollout pace: 
Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility)

Impact: 
Admins only

Action:
Admin action suggested/FYI

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Posted by Zack Ontiveros, Product Manager, Google Cloud Identity

As an IT administrator, you want to be confident that your users are secure when accessing online services. Millions of G Suite customers already rely on Google Cloud's identity services to secure their online identities with tools like single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and mobile device management. However, many G Suite organizations have users who do not require G Suite but still need a secure, online identity.

Introducing Cloud Identity support in G Suite
Today we are happy to announce the availability of a new free Cloud Identity license for G Suite customers, which enables your non-G Suite users to get access to Google Cloud's identity services. Using Cloud Identity, you can easily create a unified sign-on for all your users across all enterprise cloud apps, set basic mobile device policies, and enforce multi-factor authentication with security keys.

Once you enable Cloud Identity in your Google Admin console, you will be able to create Cloud Identity users in all the ways you create G Suite users; the only difference is that you will not assign these users a G Suite license.



Try it today
To start using Cloud Identity, head to the Billing page in the Google Admin console. Here you will see a new Cloud Identity card under the "Enable Products" section. Once you enable the Cloud Identity subscription, you will be able to start creating free users without G Suite. For more information, check out our Getting Started Guide for G Suite admins.

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Release track:
Launching to both Rapid Release and Scheduled Release
Note: If your domain has been provisioned or you have a billing relationship with a GSuite reseller, an onboarding flow is planned so that your reseller can add Cloud Identity subscriptions to your G Suite domain. This feature will launch in the coming weeks.

Editions:
Available to G Suite Basic, Business, and Enterprise edition domains

Rollout pace:
Gradual rollout (up to 7 days for feature visibility)

Impact:
Admins only

Action:
Admin action suggested/FYI

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When auto-provisioning is enabled for a supported third-party application, any users created, modified, or deleted in G Suite are automatically added, edited, or deleted in the third-party application as well. This feature is highly popular with admins, as it removes the overhead of managing users across multiple third-party SaaS applications.

Today we’re adding auto-provisioning support for six new applications: Asana, Dialpad, Freshdesk, Lucidchart, RingCentral, and Smartsheet. We previously launched auto-provisioning support for Box Enterprise, Salesforce Sandbox, Salesforce, Slack, and Workplace by Facebook, bringing the total number of supporting applications to 11.

G Suite Business, Education, and Enterprise customers can enable auto-provisioning for all eight supported applications. G Suite Basic, Government, and Nonprofit customers can configure auto-provisioning for up to three applications from the supported list. For specific details on how to set up auto-provisioning, check out the Help Center.

Launch Details
Release track:
Launching to both Rapid Release and Scheduled Release

Editions:

• G Suite Basic, Government, and Nonprofit customers can enable auto-provisioning for up to three applications
• G Suite Education, Business, and Enterprise customers can enable auto-provisioning for all supported applications

Rollout pace:
Gradual rollout (potentially longer than 3 days for feature visibility)

Impact:
Admins only

Action:
Admin action suggested/FYI

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Help Center: Automated user provisioning (instructions for Smartsheet, Dialpad, and RIngcentral to be added soon)
Help Center: Using SAML to set up federated SSO


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When we launched Team Drives in March, we gave G Suite admins the ability to restrict the creation of Team Drives until January 1st, 2018. Since then, we’ve heard that some of you need longer-term control of this setting. In response to that feedback, we’re now removing the date restriction and allowing you to indefinitely prevent users in your organization from creating Team Drives.

As a best practice, we recommend allowing your users to create Team Drives and produce the workspaces they need for their projects. We suggest restricting Team Drives creation only when needed to aid in the initial deployment of the feature.

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Release track:
Launching to both Rapid release and Scheduled release

Editions:
Available to G Suite Business, Education, Nonprofit, and Enterprise editions only

Rollout pace:
Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility)

Impact:
Admins only

Action:
Admin action suggested/FYI

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Help Center: Manage your Team Drive users and activity

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Through Gmail compliance and routing settings, Gmail administrators can now choose to notify internal senders when their messages get quarantined, depending on your compliance rule.
Below is an example of the email that users will receive when their emails get quarantined:



To enable the feature: In the Admin console where you setup and configure policies to quarantine messages, there is now a checkbox at the bottom to "Notify sender when mail is quarantined (onward delivery only)". This feature is default off for existing rules, but when you create a new rule, the default is on.


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Release track:
Launching to both Rapid release and Scheduled release
Editions:
Available to all G Suite editions
Rollout pace:
Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility)
Impact:
Admins only
Action:
Admin action suggested/FYI
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Update (July 12th, 2017): Backup and Sync is now available to users in domains on the Rapid and Scheduled Release tracks. Please reference our post on The Keyword, as well the post and Help Center articles below, for more information.

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In the coming weeks, we will launch Backup and Sync from Google, a tool intended to help everyday users back up files and photos from their computers, so they’re safe and accessible from anywhere. Backup and Sync is the latest version of Google Drive for Mac/PC, which is now integrated with the Google Photos desktop uploader. As such, it will respect any current Drive for Mac/PC settings in the Admin console.


Backup and Sync is primarily intended for consumer users. We recommend that our G Suite customers continue to use Drive for Mac/PC until our new enterprise-focused solution, Drive File Stream (currently in EAP), is made generally available to all G Suite Basic, Business, Enterprise, Education, and Nonprofit domains later this year. Drive File Stream will allow users to access huge corporate data sets without taking up the equivalent space on their hard drives.

With that in mind, we will not automatically upgrade G Suite users from Drive for Mac/PC to Backup and Sync at this time. If you currently allow your users to install Drive for Mac/PC on their own computers, they will be able to download and upgrade to Backup and Sync when it launches. If you don’t currently allow Google Drive for Mac/PC in your organization, your users won’t be able to use Backup and Sync with their G Suite accounts.

For more details, check out the resources below following the launch. If you’re interested in trying Drive File Stream, sign up for the Early Adopter Program (EAP) today.

Launch Details
Release track:
Launching to both Rapid Release and Scheduled Release on July 12th

Editions:
Available to all G Suite editions

Rollout pace:
Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility)

Impact:
All end users

Action:
Change management suggested/FYI

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Help Center: Install Google Drive for Mac/PC
Help Center: Back up and sync files with Google Drive
Help Center: Delete and restore files in Google Drive
Help Center: Fix problems syncing to your computer
Help Center: Stop syncing Google Drive files with Backup and Sync 



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Check out the latest "What's New in G Suite" launch recap [pdf] for a roundup of all G Suite launches from May 2017.

Archive & Translated Versions (coming soon for May issue)


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Today we announced that Google will soon begin using a different Certificate Authority (CA). We expect this change to have no impact on the vast majority of G Suite customers, as the CA is already trusted by systems and browsers for typical desktop and mobile platforms, including Android, Chrome OS, Windows, macOS and iOS.

This change, which will roll out gradually across Google services over the coming months, may affect customers who operate systems with custom certificate trust stores if they’re not kept up to date.

Check out today’s post on the Google Cloud Platform blog for more details and recommended actions.

Launch Details
Release track:
Launching to both Rapid release and Scheduled release no earlier than June 12, 2017. Monitor the G Suite Release Calendar for any changes to this date.

Editions:
Applicable to all G Suite editions, though no impact is expected on the vast majority of G Suite customers

Rollout pace:
Extended rollout (longer than 15 days for feature visibility)

Impact:
Admins only

Action:
Admin action suggested/FYI

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Google Cloud Platform blog post


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Sorting through rows and rows of data in a spreadsheet can be overwhelming. That’s why today, we’re rolling out new features in Sheets that make it even easier for you to visualize and share your data, and find insights your teams can act on.

Ask and you shall receive → Sheets can build charts for you

Explore in Sheets, powered by machine intelligence, helps teams gain insights from data, instantly. Simply ask questions—in words, not formulas—to quickly analyze your data. For example, you can ask “what is the distribution of products sold?” or “what are average sales on Sundays?” and Explore will help you find the answers.

Now, we’re using the same powerful technology in Explore to make visualizing data even more effortless. If you don’t see the chart you need, just ask. Instead of manually building charts, ask Explore to do it by typing in “histogram of 2017 customer ratings” or “bar chart for ice cream sales.” Less time spent building charts means more time acting on new insights.



Instantly sync your data from Sheets → Docs or Slides

Whether you’re preparing a client presentation or sharing sales forecasts, keeping data up-to-date can be time-consuming, especially if you need to update charts or tables in multiple sources. This is why we made it easier to programmatically update charts in Docs and Slides last year.

Now, we’re making it simple to keep tables updated, too. Just copy and paste data from Sheets to Docs or Slides and tap the “update” button to sync your data.



Even more Sheets updates

We’re constantly looking for ways to improve our customers’ experience in Sheets. Based on your feedback, we’re rolling out more updates today to help teams get work done faster:

• Keyboard shortcuts: Change default shortcuts in your browser to the same spreadsheet shortcuts you’re already used to. For example, delete a row quickly by using “Ctrl+-.”
• Upgraded printing experience: Preview Sheet data in today’s new print interface. Adjust margins, select scale and alignment options or repeat frozen rows and columns before you print your work.
• Powerful new chart editing experience: Create and edit charts in a new, improved sidebar. Choose from custom colors in charts or add additional trendlines to model data. You can also create more chart types, like 3D charts. This is now also available for iPhones and iPads.
• More spreadsheet functions: We added new functions to help you find insights, bringing the total function count in Sheets to more than 400. Try “SORTN,” a function unique to Sheets, which can show you the top three orders or best-performing months in a sales record spreadsheet. Sheets also supports statistical functions like “GAMMADIST,” “F.TEST” and “CHISQ.INV.RT.”
• Increased support for charts in the Sheets API: Use the API to programmatically generate most charts with support for dozens of new operations.

These new features in Sheets are rolling out starting today. Learn how Sheets can help you find valuable insights.

One last thing—so that we can focus our efforts on the improvements to charts outlined above, we’re also deprecating one of the lesser-used chart types: the Motion chart. Beginning in July 2017, you will no longer be able to insert or create Motion charts, and, in September 2017, you will no longer be able to edit them.

No earlier than December 2017, any Motion charts still in Sheets will become static images and no longer update when their corresponding data changes.

We recommend trying Bubble charts instead.

Launch Details
Release track:

• All mobile and API features launching to both Rapid release and Scheduled release on June 1st, 2017
• All web features launching to Rapid release on June 1st, 2017, with Scheduled release coming on June 20th, 2017

Editions:
Available to all G Suite editions

Rollout pace:
Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility)

Impact:
All end users

Action:
Change management suggested/FYI

More Information
Help Center: Add a chart or graph to a spreadsheet
Help Center: Chart types
Help Center: Add a chart or table to Google Docs or Slides



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