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Last July, we announced that you could automatically provision users for third-party applications like Salesforce, Slack, and Workplace by Facebook. 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. Based on the great feedback from administrators who have used this feature, we’ve decided to add auto-user provisioning support to more applications.

Following this launch, we will add two more supported applications to automated third-party user provisioning: Box Enterprise and Salesforce Sandbox. Customers subscribed to G Suite Business and G Suite Enterprise editions can enable user provisioning in all supported applications. Customers on G Suite Basic 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.

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Release track:
Launching to both Rapid release and Scheduled release

Editions:
Up to three applications can be auto-provisioned with G Suite Basic, Government, and Nonprofit editions
No restrictions for G Suite Education, Business, and Enterprise editions

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
Help Center: Using SAML to set up federated SSO


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(Cross-posted from The Keyword blog)

By Sharon Stovezky, Product Manager, Calendar

Whether you’re jumping from meeting to meeting or on your way to meet a customer—your calendar needs to work for you...anywhere, anytime.

That’s why today, we’re bringing Google Calendar to the iPad.

With the new app, you’ll get all the Calendar features you know and love, now optimized for iPad. Use Calendar’s machine intelligence-powered features to:

  • Find a time and book a room. Get everyone together faster for meetings. With smart scheduling, Calendar suggests meeting times and available rooms based on your team’s  availability and room preferences.
  • Set Goals and achieve them. Add a goal and Calendar will intelligently schedule time for it so you can stick to it.

Plus, you can search your Calendar easily from the iPad home screen with Spotlight Search.

Download the Calendar app for iPad today. Stay tuned for more updates, like a Today View Widget to easily see your upcoming events in the Notification Center and on the lock screen (coming soon!).

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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Security Keys are a two-step verification (2SV) method for signing into G Suite accounts that helps keep users secure from phishing attempts. Starting today, if your users have multiple Security Keys, they can rename those Security Keys to make them easier to manage. This was a common request from power users, and we’re happy to make it available. To take advantage of this feature, users who have already added Security Keys can visit their Two-Step Verification settings.


To learn more about all of G Suite’s security offerings, come read our recently updated G Suite Security & Privacy page here.


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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Capitalizing a large portion of text or an especially long title can be a pain. Doing the opposite—converting capital letters to lowercase—is equally a waste of time. With this launch, we’re making those tasks quick and easy in Google Docs on the web.

Starting today, simply choose “Capitalization” from the Format menu in Docs, and select one of the following:

  • lowercase, to make all the letters in your selection lowercase.
  • UPPERCASE, to capitalize all the letters in your selection.
  • Title Case, to capitalize the first letter of each word in your selection.



It’s that easy. Like other recent launches in Docs, this feature allows you to spend less time formatting and more time on the things that matter, like strategizing, collaborating, and developing new ideas.

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

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: Edit and format a document


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Today, we’re providing G Suite Super Admins additional control over how they grant access to the Calendar Settings section of Admin console, with the addition of ‘Calendar’ and ‘Calendar Resources’ administrator privileges.

Super admins can delegate the management of certain Admin console sections, by assigning system or custom administrator roles to their users. With this update, you can now delegate the administration of the Calendar Resources section (useful for facility managers) or the Calendar Settings section as a whole, simply by assigning the new ‘Calendar Resources’ or ‘Calendar‘ privileges to delegate admins.


Assigning these privileges will grant access to the respective sections of the Admin Console App, and through the Directory API. It will not allow management of resource calendars or user calendars through the Google Calendar App or Calendar API.

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: 
Admins only

Action:
Admin action suggested/FYI

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If you were at Google Cloud Next this year, you may have heard that Gmail and Google Hangouts are getting several improvements designed for businesses, such as Gmail Add-ons and the evolution of Hangouts: Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat. To make the most of these opportunities, we’re announcing several updates to Hangouts, Gmail and Google+ that make things much simpler for both enterprise administrators and users.
  • Streamlining the messaging experience for Android: At Google Cloud Next, we announced that we’ve evolved Hangouts to focus on two new experiences that help bring teams together and keep work moving forward: Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat. We’ve been working hard to streamline the classic Hangouts product for enterprise users, and, as part of this effort, will be removing carrier SMS functionality in the classic Hangouts app for Android, starting on May 22. For administrators: If your domain is affected by this change, you can expect to receive an email notification with additional details in the coming days.
    • Upgrading SMS with Android Messages: We want to provide a consistent and easy-to-use SMS experience for Android users, right out of the box. So we’re focused on making Android Messages the primary place to access SMS and are working with carriers and device manufacturers to include Android Messages natively in Android devices. Over time, we’re working with partners to upgrade SMS to RCS—the next standard in carrier messaging that will bring features like read receipts, group chat, hi-res photo sharing and more.
    • Hangouts on Android users: In the next few weeks, you’ll see a notification in the classic Hangouts app to switch to another SMS app already on your phone for SMS, or to download Android Messages if one isn’t available. Choosing a new messaging app will not impact your SMS message history, and all your messages will be accessible in whichever new app you choose. Note: This change does not impact Google Voice users who may continue to use Hangouts for their Google Voice SMS.  Project Fi users who wish to use Hangouts as their SMS app will also not be impacted by this change, and can consult the Project Fi forum for more detail.


  • Fully transitioning Google Talk to Hangouts: Google Talk launched in 2005 as a simple chat experience between Gmail users. In 2013, we began replacing Google Talk with Hangouts, while still giving users the option to continue using Google Talk. Hangouts offers advanced improvements over Google Talk such as group video calling and integration with other Google products. With the introduction of Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat, which add further improvements in meetings and team collaboration, it is now time to say goodbye to Google Talk.
    • Talk users within Gmail will receive a prompt in the next few weeks, inviting them to switch to Hangouts. After June 26, users will be automatically transitioned to Hangouts, unless contractual commitments apply. For users that preferred the Google Talk look, there is a Dense Roster setting in Hangouts that provides a similar experience.
    • Third-party XMPP clients will continue to work with Hangouts for 1-on-1 chats. XMPP federation with third-party services providers will no longer be supported starting June 26.
    • The legacy Google Talk Android app was replaced in the Play Store in 2013 and will now stop functioning. Android users are encouraged to install Hangouts now.
    • For G Suite administrators: If your domain is affected by this change, you will have already received an email notification about this change.
  • Retiring several Gmail Labs: Gmail Labs serve as a great testing ground for experimental features. Successful labs graduate, and low usage labs often retire. With the announcement of Gmail Add-ons, enterprises will soon gain the ability to add modern integrations in Gmail, which in some cases will replace or improve the functionality provided by some labs. So in the coming weeks, we will retire the following Labs: Authentication Icon, Google Voice Player, Picasa previews, Pictures in chat, Quick Links, Quote Selected Text, Smartlabels, and Yelp previews. (Expected: No earlier than April 24, 2017)
  • Retiring Google+ functionality in Gmail: As part of our continued effort to focus Google+ around shared interests, we’re retiring two legacy Google+ features in Gmail: the ability to email Google+ profiles and the use of Google+ Circles. (Expected: No earlier than April 24, 2017)
    We realize these updates may be an inconvenience, so we aimed to minimize disruption and help you navigate the changes where possible. These updates will help us focus and prioritize features that will improve the entire G Suite user experience for everyone. To monitor the retirement dates for these features, subscribe to the G Suite What’s New Calendar.

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    Today, we’re rolling out a quality of life improvement to Gmail desktop users that makes previewing video attachments in Gmail much smoother and quicker. Previously, in order to view a video attachment in Gmail, you would have to download it to your computer and open it with a media player. Starting today, when opening an email with video attachments, you will see a thumbnail of the video and have the ability to stream it, right from inside Gmail.

    This feature uses the same Google infrastructure that powers YouTube, Google Drive, and other video streaming apps, so video is delivered at optimal quality and availability. If you have apps that would also benefit from integrating video streaming, check out Google Cloud Platform Media Solutions.

    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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    Last fall, we announced efforts with Salesforce to build tighter integrations with G Suite apps, and as of last week, businesses can now use Edit Opportunities in Google Sheets to save time. Sales reps can simply export a Salesforce Opportunity List View to Sheets to bulk edit data, and the changes are synced automatically to Salesforce, no upload required.

    This integration supports business logic and validation rules and even lets sales reps use Explore in Sheets to help answer natural language questions.

    Launch Details
    Note: This is a Salesforce launch, available to all Sales Cloud customers with Lightning Experience who also use Google Sheets.

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    We’ve made the Google Drive plug-in for Microsoft Office more secure and easier to use. In particular, the plug-in authentication flow has been updated as part of Google’s effort to modernize OAuth interactions in native applications. The new authentication flow requires users to authenticate via the default browser on their system, and not through embedded browsers known as “web-views.”

    This week, we’ll begin automatically updating all plug-ins. If you previously disabled Google Update or installed the Google Drive plug-in in an environment that does not allow for automatic updates, please download and deploy the latest plug-in version (1.7.17.0).

    You must upgrade to version 1.7.17.0 before April 20, 2017. Starting on that date, you will not be able to sign in to older versions of the plug-in.

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

    Editions:
    Available to all G Suite editions

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

    Impact:
    Admins and end users

    Action:
    Admin action may be required

    More Information
    Admin Help Center: Install the Drive plug-in for Microsoft Office
    User Help Center: Save, edit, & share Microsoft Office files


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    You can already reliably and safely share photos and files on the go with Gmail. Now you can share money, too. Whether you’re splitting a dinner bill or planning a group trip, you now have a fee-free way to work out the details and settle up without ever leaving the Gmail app on Android, just like you can already do on the web. Plus, you can exchange money with anyone—not just people with Gmail addresses. Learn more about the new feature in our blog post here: Send and request money in your Gmail app on Android.

    For Administrators:

    • This feature is currently available in the US only using Gmail on the web or Android.
    • If you do not want your users sending money from their Google accounts, you can disable Google Payments from the Admin console. Learn more


    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: Send & receive money with Gmail
    Help Center: Control who can access Google services
    The Keyword: Gmail


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