With Single Sign-On (SSO), users can access all of their enterprise cloud applications—including the Admin console for admins—after signing in just once. Google supports the two most popular enterprise SSO standards, OpenID Connect and SAML, and there are many applications with pre-integrated SSO support in our third-party apps catalog already.

Building on other recent launches (February 27th, March 12th), we’re adding SAML integration for 23 additional applications:

• Adaptive Insights 
• Buildkite 
• Citrix ShareFile 
• CrashPlan 
• Fuze 
• HappyFox 
• Huddle 
• Image Relay 
• itsLearning 
• Jobvite 
• Klipfolio 
• Mimecast 
• Mozy Enterprise 
• Periscope Data 
• Pipedrive 
• Pritunl 
• Qubole 
• Runscope 
• Saba 
• Solium Shareworks 
• Spotinst 
• VictorOps 
• Zuora 

You can find our full list of pre-integrated applications, as well as instructions for installing them, in the Help Center.

Note that apart from the pre-integrated SAML applications, G Suite also supports installing “Custom SAML Applications,” which means that admins can install any third-party application that supports SAML. The advantage of a pre-integrated app is that the installation is much easier. You can learn more about installing Custom SAML Applications in this Help Center article.

Launch Details 
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

More Information 
Help Center: Using SAML to set up federated SSO

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To protect your organization’s data, we automatically sign any G Suite user out of Google services they’re using on the web (like Gmail and Drive) after two weeks. We’ve heard, however, that some organizations need different durations for different use cases. For instance, if users access work data outside their corporate network, a shorter session length may be warranted. In other cases, a longer session length may be appropriate, and not requiring users to continually enter their password makes for a much better experience.

That’s why we’re giving G Suite Business, Enterprise, and Education admins the ability to specify the duration of web sessions for Google services (e.g. four hours, seven days, or infinite). Unless a user logs out on their own beforehand, they’ll be automatically signed out at the end of that duration and prompted to re-enter their login credentials.


These settings apply to all desktop web sessions, as well as some mobile browser sessions. Native mobile apps, like Gmail for Android and iOS, aren’t impacted by these settings. These settings also only apply to domains where Google is responsible for the login (i.e. where Google is the Identity Provider), and not to domains that federate to another Identity Provider using SAML. Support for these domains will be added in the future.

For more information on specifying session duration for Google services, please see the Help Center. 

2-step verification (2SV) frequency

When a user logs into their G Suite account today, they’re given an option to “Remember this computer.” When this box is checked, they’re not prompted for their second factor—even if they log out of their Google session and log back in.


As part of this launch, we’re giving all admins the option to show their users this checkbox or have them presented with a 2SV challenge every time they enter their password.


When “Allow the user to trust the device at 2-step verification” is selected, the checkbox will be displayed. This is the default. When “Do not allow the user to trust the device at 2-step verification” is selected, the user will be forced to undergo a 2SV challenge every time they sign in. These settings can be found in the Admin console under Security > Basic settings > Go to advanced settings to enforce 2-step verification. They have no impact on users who aren’t enrolled in 2SV.

For more information on setting 2SV frequency, please see the Help Center.

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

Editions:
Session duration controls available to G Suite Business, Enterprise, and Education editions only; 2SV frequency controls 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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Help Center: Set up session length for Google services

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With Jamboard, it’s easy to enrich your team brainstorms with the power of G Suite. For example, you can grab images and content from the web and bring them straight into your “jam,” pull in work from Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, or add photos stored in Drive.

To make the Jamboard experience even more integrated with G Suite, the jam files you own will now appear in your Drive folder. This means you can easily open, copy, and share jam files from My Drive, and save jam files from Jamboard to My Drive.



With this launch you can:

• Share jam files directly from Drive.
• Open jam files from Drive in the Jamboard web and mobile applications.
• Search for jam files in Drive (by entering “type:jam” in the Drive search bar).

For more information on using Jamboard, check out the Help Center.

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

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

More Information
Help Center: Jamboard and Google Drive

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Google+ communities and collections help people connect around the things they’re interested in. To help you stay on top of these connections, we're adding more options for how often you're notified about new posts in the Google+ communities and collections to which you subscribe. Instead of getting all or no notifications, you can now opt to get "highlights" only.

When the highlights option is selected, we will send you a digest notification of the top posts from across all of your G+ communities and collections. This will help save you time and ensure you’re seeing the posts that matter most.



Learn more about Google+ settings in the Help Center.

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

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: Google+ settings

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We encourage all of our customers to use two-step verification for added protection when they log into their G Suite accounts. In particular, we recommend security keys, which are easy to use and better prevent some common attacks, like phishing.

Previously, we made it possible for admins in G Suite Enterprise domains to allow only security keys as their users' two-step verification factor. In addition, we gave them (and G Suite Business admins) tools to manage the deployment of security keys and to view usage reports. Because we believe security keys can be pivotal in the effort to protect any organization, we’re now bringing these management capabilities to all G Suite editions.

Going forward, all G Suite admins will be able to do the following in the Admin console:

• Restrict users’ two-step verification method to security keys only.
• Add and revoke security keys for users.
• View reports on security key usage.

For more information on enforcing and managing security key use in your domain, visit the Help Center.

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

Editions:
Available to all G Suite editions

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

Impact:
Admins only

Action:
Admin action suggested/FYI

More Information
Help Center: Add 2-Step Verification
Help Center: Use Security Key for 2-Step Verification
Help Center: View and revoke security key access to Google accounts


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Jamboard helps businesses collaborate more efficiently by bringing the power of the cloud into their team brainstorms. With this latest Jamboard release, we’re adding new features to help you customize that experience for the unique needs of your organization.

Automatic document closeout
Jams can now be automatically closed if left open on a Jamboard kiosk for longer than a period of time if/when configured by the admins. This feature is configurable in the settings page of the Jamboard Admin console under “Document Timeout.”

Custom backgrounds
Users can now select custom backgrounds for their jams. There’s a list of 7 unique background and patterns to choose from. Each background will be applied to the jam across all devices.



Custom screensaver messages
Admins can now create a custom message in the Jamboard Admin console settings page under “Screensaver Message.” This message will display as a ticker on the Jamboard screensaver.



Object connectors
You can now connect shapes on the Jamboard together by drawing lines between them.

Landscape support for mobile devices
Users can now interact with jams in landscape mode on both iOS and Android Jamboard mobile apps.

For a full list of new features and improvements from this month’s release, check out the What’s New in Jamboard page in the Help Center.

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

Editions:
Available to all G Suite Basic, Business, Enterprise, and Education customers

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

Impact:
All end users

Action:
Change management suggested/FYI

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Help Center


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Last year, we introduced a new resource for admins: What’s new in G Suite? Don’t forget to visit the page regularly for a list of the most recent launches across G Suite.

Feedback? Let us know.

(Cross-posted from The Keyword)

Security tools are only effective at stopping threats if they are deployed and managed at scale, but getting everyone in your organization to adopt these tools ultimately hinges on how easy they are to use. It’s for this reason that G Suite has always aimed to give IT admins simpler ways to manage access, control devices, ensure compliance and keep data secure.

Today we announced more than 20 updates to deepen and expand Google Cloud customers’ control over their security. Many of these features will be turned on by default for G Suite so that you can be sure the right protections are in place for your organization. And, even better, in most cases your users won’t have to do a thing. Here’s the breakdown.

1. Helping to protect your users and organization with new advanced anti-phishing capabilities

We're applying machine learning (ML) to billions of threat indicators and evolving our models to quickly identify what could be a phishing attack in the making. Information from these self-learning ML models helps us flag suspicious content. At the same time, updated phishing security controls can be configured to automatically switch on the latest Google-recommended defenses.

These new protections can:

• Automatically flag emails from untrusted senders that have encrypted attachments or embedded scripts.
• Warn against email that tries to spoof employee names or that comes from a domain that looks similar to your own domain.
• Offer enhanced protections against spear phishing attacks by flagging unauthenticated email.
• Scan images for phishing indicators and expand shortened URLs to uncover malicious links.

With the protections we have in place, more than 99.9% of Business Email Compromise (BEC) scenarios—or when someone impersonates an executive to get sensitive information—are either automatically moved to the spam folder or flagged with anomaly warnings to users.


For more details, G Suite admins should read our related post on the G Suite Updates blog.

2. Giving you more control over mobile devices with default-on mobile management

Securing endpoints like mobile devices is one of the best ways for businesses to keep data safe. More than 7 million devices are already managed with G Suite’s enterprise-grade mobile management solution. With new proactive security settings, basic device management for your mobile devices that access G Suite is automatically enabled.

This means employees don’t have to install profiles on iOS and Android devices. It also means admins get added security management controls to help them:

• See which devices access corporate data in a single dashboard.
• Enforce pass codes and erase confidential data with selective account wipe for Android and iOS.
• Automatically protect Android and iOS devices, with no user intervention or device profile required.

And you may have noticed we launched updates to Cloud Identity—a way for enterprises to manage users, apps and devices centrally. Cloud Identity includes user lifecycle management, account security, SSO, robust device and app management and unified reporting. Check it out.



3. Offering you more visibility and insights to stay ahead of potential threats

IT admins who operate in the cloud seek tools, visibility and assistive insights to stop threats or gaps in operations before they become security incidents. This is why we introduced the security center for G Suite earlier this year. The security center is a tool that brings together security analytics, actionable insights and best practice recommendations from Google to help you protect your organization, data and users.

Today, we’re introducing additions to the security center for G Suite including:

• New security charts to show OAuth activity and Business Email Compromise (BEC) scam threats that are specifically focused on phishing emails that may not have links.
• New mobile management charts to help IT admins examine activity analytics and show when devices have been hijacked, rooted or jailbroken, as well as when other suspicious device activity has been detected.
• Ways to reorganize the dashboard to focus on what is most important to your organization.
• Ways to analyze your organization’s security health and get custom advice on security key deployment and protection against phishing scams.

If you’re new to using the G Suite security center, check out these instructions to get started. Note that only admins with G Suite Enterprise licenses can access the security center.

4. Providing built-in protections and controls for Team Drives

Enterprises share and store an enormous amount of content, which means admins need more controls to keep this data protected. That’s why we’re enhancing Team Drives with new security controls to give you more ways to safeguard highly-sensitive content. Now, your data can be protected by Information Rights Management (IRM) controls so you can feel confident that your company’s ideas stay “yours.”



Specific updates include the ability to modify settings for Team Drives to:

• Limit file access privileges to Team Drives members, or only to users within your domain.
• Add IRM controls to prevent users from printing, downloading and copying files within Team Drives. 

These new security features for Team Drives will roll out over the next few weeks. Monitor the G Suite Updates blog and G Suite release calendar for more information when these features launch.

Get started

Phishing and mobile management controls are available now across all G Suite versions, and you’ll be able to use Team Drives controls in the coming weeks. If you’re a G Suite Enterprise customer, you can access the security center in the Admin console.



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We recently introduced several features for G Suite to help keep your data secure. As described in our earlier post, this includes basic mobile management that’s on by default. Keep reading for more information on this new setting configuration and how it’ll be rolled out to your organization.

If your users bring their Android and iOS devices to work, you have the option to turn on mobile device management for additional security.

If you’ve never enabled this option, we will automatically turn on basic mobile management for your domain by the end of the year. This means that any user who doesn’t currently have a passcode or screen lock on their device will be required to set one up before accessing their G Suite apps.

To control the timing of this change, you can do one of three things:

1. Turn on basic mobile management now, and enforce a passcode on your users' devices.
2. Turn on basic mobile management now, but don't enforce a passcode on your users' devices.
3. Enable and then disable mobile management. This will prevent basic mobile management from being turned on automatically.

If you do any of the above, passcodes and screen locks will not be automatically enforced at any point in the future.

A few important things to keep in mind:

• If your organization has previously enabled basic, advanced, or custom mobile management, your users won’t be impacted by this launch.
• This launch applies even if your organization uses a third-party Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) provider. It won’t impact the way your EMM works in any way.
• Mobile devices syncing via Google Sync won’t be impacted by this change and won’t have a passcode or screen lock enforced.
• Users who sync their mail via IMAP and who don’t use native G Suite apps (e.g. Gmail) won’t be impacted by this change, and their devices won’t have a passcode or screen lock enforced.

For more information on Google Mobile Management, please visit the Help Center.

Launch Details
Release track:
Launching to both Rapid Release and Scheduled Release by the end of 2018

Editions:
Available to all G Suite editions

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

Impact:
Admins and end users

Action:
Admin action suggested/FYI

More Information
Help Center: Turn on mobile device management
Help Center: Compare mobile management features
The Keyword: Helping G Suite customers stay secure with new proactive phishing protections and management controls


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We recently introduced several features for G Suite to help keep your data secure. As described in our earlier post, this includes advanced protections against phishing and malware attempts. Keep reading for more information on these new settings and how they’ll be rolled out to your organization.

Following this launch, you’ll notice the new settings below in the Admin console under Apps > G Suite > Gmail > Safety. Each can be enabled, disabled, or customized.

In the “Attachments” section:

• Protect against encrypted attachments from untrusted senders
• Protect against attachments with scripts from untrusted senders

In the “Links and external images” section:

• Identify links behind shortened URLs
• Scan linked images
• Show warning prompt for any click on links to untrusted domains

In the “Spoofing and authentication” section:

• Protect against domain spoofing based on similar domain names
• Protect against spoofing of employee names
• Protect against inbound emails spoofing your domain
• Protect against any unauthenticated emails

At launch time, the majority of these settings will be disabled for existing customers, because—depending on your domain configuration—they may cause false positives. To maximize security, the following settings will be automatically enabled for existing customers on April 4th, 2018:

• Identify links behind shortened URLs
• Scan linked images

If you don’t want these settings to be turned on automatically on April 4th, you’ll need to disable or customize them prior to that date.

For more information on these new settings, please visit the Help Center.

Note that G Suite Enterprise customers can view charts related to these settings in the G Suite security center, and the Security health page will warn them if these settings aren’t enabled.

Launch Details
Release track:
All settings launching to both Rapid Release and Scheduled Release on March 21st, 2018; “Identify links behind shortened URLs” and “Scan linked images” settings to be enabled automatically on April 4th, 2018, unless they’re disabled or customized prior to that date

Editions:
Available to all G Suite editions (note that only G Suite Enterprise customers can access the security center)

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

Impact:
Admins only

Action:
Admin action suggested/FYI

More Information
Help Center: Advanced phishing and malware protection
The Keyword: Helping G Suite customers stay secure with new proactive phishing protections and management controls

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Meet allows G Suite users to connect across any device, at any time. Users with iOS devices whose accounts aren’t Meet-enabled are still able to join meetings that they’re invited to, but aren’t able to create them. To ensure that these users understand why they are missing that functionality, we will start showing them the following message the first time they open the Meet app on their iOS device:





This message is already shown to users on the web. It will primarily reach non-G Suite users’ accounts, but admins may receive requests from their users who do not have Meet enabled for their domain and/or organizational unit.

Launch Details
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:
All end users

Action:
Change management suggested/FYI

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Help Center: Managing Hangouts Meet

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The new Google Sites provides a simple and elegant way to create websites. To help your site stand out, you can now customize your favicon—the icon which appears in a browser tab or bookmark list—to match your site. This can help your viewers more easily recognize your site, and help you reinforce your branding.



Use our Help Center to find out how to add a custom favicon in the new Google Sites.

Launch Details 
Release track:
Launching to Rapid Release, with Scheduled Release coming in 2 weeks.

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 or edit text & images


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Feedback? Let us know.

We can all use a little help organizing our email. Gmail makes it easy, offering web and iOS users various options for sorting their inboxes, including unread first, important first, starred first, and priority inbox. Because many of you rely on your phones for email, we’re now bringing these same options to the Gmail app for Android.

Going forward, if you’ve selected a specific inbox type for your Gmail account on the web, you’ll see that same email configuration in your Android app. For instance, if you’ve chosen to see unread emails at the top of your inbox and everything else below, you’ll see your emails sorted the same way in Gmail for Android.

You’ll also be able to change your inbox type directly from the Gmail app on your Android phone (under Settings > Inbox type). This inbox type will then be reflected across web and iOS as well.



We hope this helps you stay on top of your email—no matter where (and on what device) you read it.

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

Editions:
Available to all G Suite editions

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

Impact:
All end users

Action:
Change management suggested/FYI

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Help Center: Change your Gmail inbox layout


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Based on usage data and your feedback, we’re making some changes to the menus in the web versions of the Google Docs editors. These are similar to the changes we made in December, in January, and in February and will make it easier to find certain items.

Changes that affect the Google Docs and Google Slides menus: 

• In the Format menu, text formatting options (including bold, italic, font size, and more) will be moved to a new “Text” submenu.

Changes that only affect Google Slides menus: 

• The Table menu will be removed. Options to add or remove a table will be in the Insert menu. Options to format tables will be in the Format menu. 
• In the Slide menu, four options for moving slides will be moved to a new “Move” submenu. 
• In the Arrange menu, "Align horizontally" and "Align vertically" will be moved into a new "Align" submenu. 

Changes that only affect Google Docs menus and toolbars: 

• In the toolbar, text color and highlight color will be split into separate controls for each. 
• In the toolbar, a new option will be added to “Insert image” 
• The Table menu will be removed. Options to add or remove a table will be in the Insert menu. Options to format tables will be in the Format menu. 

Changes that affect all Docs editors menus (including Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets): 

• Items in the Insert menu will be reordered.

These changes will only affect the visual menu on the web version of these products. All options will still be available via keyboard shortcuts and the search box in the Help menu.

Launch Details 
Release track:
Launching to Rapid Release, with Scheduled Release coming in two weeks

Editions: 
Available to all G Suite editions

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

Impact: 
All end users

Action: 
Change management suggested/FYI

More Information
Help Center: Keyboard shortcuts for Google Docs 
Help Center: Keyboard shortcuts for Google Slides 
Help Center: Docs editors homepage

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G Suite makes it easier for users to collaborate efficiently and effectively. An important part of collaboration is deciding how and when to follow up with others. To help inform these decisions, we're introducing Activity dashboard in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. It’s a feature that lets users with edit access see who has viewed the file and when they viewed it.



For example, a user can check if a coworker has seen a file already and alert them that it’s been updated. Or an account manager can judge the best way to follow up with a partner, depending on whether that partner has viewed the materials they previously sent.

As of March 7th, G Suite administrators have access to new Admin console settings to control the Activity dashboard feature for their domain or the organizational units (OUs) within it. On March 21st, end users will begin to see Activity dashboard in Docs, Sheets, and Slides. See the “Release schedule” section below for more information.

Understand when user viewing data will be visible

A file’s Activity dashboard contains viewing data, which is information on who viewed the file and when they viewed it. The viewing data that’s shown in the dashboard depends on both your organization’s Admin console settings and a user’s individual settings:

• As an admin, you can determine whether viewing data from your organization’s users is shown in Activity dashboard. Specifically, you can choose to make viewing data for your organization’s users visible, not visible, or only visible within your organization. See the “Review and change your organization’s Activity dashboard settings” section below for more information.
• If you make viewing data visible for your organization, your users can still choose to exclude their individual viewing data from showing in Activity dashboard via their personal privacy settings. If an admin makes their organization’s viewing data not visible, your end users won’t be able to choose to share their viewing data. See the “End user controls for Activity dashboard” section below for more info.

Users with edit access to a file and who belong to the same domain as the file’s owner will be able to see that file’s Activity dashboard and any viewing data which is available in it.

Review and change your organization’s Activity dashboard settings

Admin controls for Activity dashboard are now available in the Admin console. There are three options:

• On: Activity dashboards show all user views, unless individual users hide their information.
• On - Only within your domain: Your users’ viewing information is only visible in Activity dashboards of files owned by users in your domain and to other users within your domain, unless individual users hide their information. Your users’ viewing data will not be visible in Activity dashboards of files owned by users in other domains.
• Off: Your users’ viewing data will not show up in Activity dashboard for any file. Your users may be able to see whether external users have viewed their files, depending on the Activity dashboard settings of those external users.

Find out how to change the setting for your organization in our Activity dashboard Help Center article for admins.

Note: Activity dashboard and its settings don’t affect the data collected in your G Suite Drive audit log.

End user controls for Activity dashboard

When Activity dashboard becomes available to your users, they’ll see a notification in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides that explains the feature and their control options. Activity dashboard will only show viewing data for a user after they see this notification. It will not display any activity from before they saw it.



All users will have access to privacy settings that allow them to control whether their views show up in Activity dashboard at any time. For more information and to change settings, users can see the Activity dashboard Help Center article for users.

Release schedule

Admin console settings are available now. Activity dashboard will start to become available to users in two weeks:

• If your domain is on the Rapid Release track, Activity dashboard will not be available to end users before March 21st. Due to a gradual rollout, all Rapid Release domains may not have access to the feature for up to two weeks after that. 
• If your domain is on the Scheduled Release track, Activity dashboard will not be available to end users before April 9th. Due to a gradual rollout, all domains may not have access to the feature for up to two weeks after that. 

Learn more about this feature in our Help Center article on how your users can use and control Activity dashboard, as well as our Activity dashboard Help Center article for G Suite admins.

Over time we’ll add features to Activity dashboard to provide more insights into activity on the file and to make it easier to communicate with collaborators directly from Activity dashboard.

Launch Details
Release track:

• Admin console settings are available today to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains. 
• User-facing feature will begin to roll out to Rapid Release domains in two weeks and to Scheduled Release domains in five weeks. 

Editions: 

• Activity dashboard access: Available to G Suite Business, Enterprise, Education, and Nonprofit editions only. Users will be able to see the Activity dashboard for a file if they have edit access to that file. 
• Activity dashboard viewing data visibility settings: All users have access to privacy settings for Activity dashboard, as data from users in all G Suite editions can appear in the dashboard. 

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

Impact: 
Admins and end users

Action: 
Admin action suggested/FYI

More Information
Help Center (admins): Let users see who viewed files 
Help Center (users): See who has viewed Google Docs, Sheets & Slides


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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.

We’ve heard continued positive feedback from admins, so we’re adding auto-provisioning support for four new applications:

• Kudos 
• 15Five 
• Rollbar 
• Honey 

Customers subscribed to G Suite Education, G Suite Business, and G Suite Enterprise editions can enable user auto-provisioning in all supported applications. Customers on G Suite Basic, G Suite Government, and G Suite Nonprofit can configure auto-provisioning for up to three applications from the supported list. For more information 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 Education, Business, and Enterprise customers can enable auto-provisioning for all supported applications 
• G Suite Basic, Government, and Nonprofit customers can enable auto-provisioning for up to three applications 

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

Impact: 
Admins only

Action: 
Admin action suggested/FYI

More Information 
Help Center: Automated user provisioning
Help Center: Using SAML to set up federated SSO

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G Suite is built for working collaboratively—teams create and share files all the time. When there can be hundreds or thousands of files, though, it can be tricky to find those files later. So we’re improving how you find files that have been shared with you in Google Drive.

The “Shared with Me” section shows the files that have been shared with you. We’re going to start intelligently organizing this section so you may also see people listed, along with files they’ve shared with you. Simply click on a document to quickly open it.


Searching for content by owner is the most popular way to search for content in Drive today. The new interface will use artificial intelligence to predict the people and files that you’re most likely to search for and make them more visible. We hope that this will help you find the files you’re looking for more quickly.

The predictions will improve as the system learns how it’s used. We’re also working on more features which will use artificial intelligence and machine learning to make it easier to find files and collaborate more efficiently in Drive. Look out for more over the next few months.


Launch Details 
Release track:
Launching to Rapid Release, with Scheduled Release coming in 2 weeks

Editions: 
Available to all G Suite editions

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

Impact: 
All end users

Action: 
Change management suggested/FYI

More Information 
Help Center: Find files shared with you


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