Today we’re introducing two new features to help make working together even easier in Drive and the Docs editors.
After you add an email address to the sharing dialogue, you’ll see profile pictures for everyone you’ve added. This can come in handy when you need to confirm that you’re inviting the right contacts, especially if you work with people that have similar names.
We’re also making it easier to add people who you typically share with. Once you add two collaborators, you’ll see suggestions for related people who you frequently email or share files with: 
Release track:Rapid release and Scheduled release
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Sometimes Calendar events change―like an event being deleted or updated, the removal of a booked room, or a change to a list of invitees―and it’s not clear how those changes came about. Starting today, admins can use the new Calendar audit feature in Admin Reports to see details of specific user actions within Google Calendar.
You can see changes to primary calendars―like deleting or creating a new calendar―along with changes to events like description, time, name or guest list, and even changes to notifications and reminders.
To access the Calendar audit reports in Admin console, click on Reports > Audit > Calendar:
Calendar audit data is also available via the Reports API for Calendar activity.
Note: this feature is not available for Google Apps for Government customers
Release track:Rapid release and Scheduled release
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To make it easier to find and manage your apps, we’ve introduced a new Apps icon in the Admin console. The Apps icon is the one place to manage Google Apps, Additional Google services, and Google Marketplace apps. To check it out, simply login to admin.google.com, and click on the Apps icon:
Clicking on the Apps icon above takes you to the screen below:
Release track:Rapid release and Scheduled release
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New versions of the Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides apps for iOS are now available in the App Store. New features include:- Support for viewing and editing text in tables in the Docs app
- Ability to insert, move, resize and rotate text boxes, shapes and lines in the Slides app
- Enhanced support for iPhone 6/6+ (all apps)
- General fixes and performance improvements (all apps)
Release track:Rapid release and Scheduled release
For more information:G+ post
Get the Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides apps in the App Store
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The Apps Search lab feature, launched in 2010, extends Gmail search to include relevant results from one’s Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides content and displays them in a separate section below email search results when typing a query and hitting ‘Enter/Return.’ Currently, Google Apps admins have the option in the Admin console to enable this lab feature for everyone in their domain, or allow users to add it individually if they so desire.
Since 2010, Gmail search for consumers has been improved to automatically display results from Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides―plus Calendar and G+ content―in the instant results dropdown, which appears when entering a query in the search box:We’ll be implementing the instant results feature for Google Apps customers in late-2015 or early 2016*. With this improved experience on the horizon, we’ll be ending the Apps Search lab experiment, which is unstable and provides lower quality results. It will be removed from Gmail Labs and the Advanced Labs Management section in Admin console in early 2015. We will provide additional guidance on the specific date of the lab experiment removal, and the launch of the instant results feature, on the Google Apps Release calendar.
*This post was updated on September 14, 2015 to reflect a change in the rollout schedule for the instant results feature
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Posted by Lucia Fedorova, Tech Lead, Google Calendar API
(Cross-posted on the Google Developers Blog)
At Google we like to make 10x rather than 10% improvements. In this spirit, we are increasing the default quota for the Calendar API v3 by a factor of ten, to 1 million requests per day. That means your application can support ten times as many users without any need to apply for more quota.
And if you need even more free quota, you can apply for it in the developer console under APIs -> Calendar API -> Quota -> “Apply for higher quota.” We have also streamlined the process of quota handling to make sure you receive your quota as quickly as possible.
A few tips to work efficiently with your quota:- Use push notifications instead of polling.
- If you cannot avoid polling, make sure you only poll when necessary (for example poll very seldomly at night).
- Use incremental synchronization with sync tokens for all collections instead of repeatedly retrieving all the entries.
- Increase page size to retrieve more data at once by using the maxResults parameter.
- Update events when they change, avoid re-creating all the events on every sync.
- Use exponential backoff for error retries.
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We know some of you work with Office files regularly, so we’re adding conversion support in Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for 15 new Office file formats.
New formats supported include:- dot, dotx, dotm*, docm* conversions to Google Docs
- xlt, xltx, xltm*, xlsm* conversions to Google Sheets
- pot, potx, potm*, pptm*, pps, ppsx, ppsm* conversions to Google Slides
We’ve been listening to your feedback and along with the ability to bring in these new formats, we’ve also added better conversion support for charts, SmartArt, and merged table cells in your Office documents.
After the conversion, you can edit, collaborate on, and share your file online. When you convert a file, the original file will remain intact and accessible from Google Drive.
*Note: Macros will be removed from macro file formats upon conversion
Release track:Rapid release and Scheduled release
For more information:Help CenterDrive G+ Post
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