With Google Drive, you can access and edit your files across the many devices and platforms you work on. The new Files app for iOS 11 brings together files and documents stored on your iOS device and in the cloud across various apps and services. Today, we’re announcing full integration of the Drive application with the Files app on devices running iOS 11.


With the latest version of the Drive app installed, you can easily access and manage documents and photos stored in Drive just by opening up the Files app on your iOS device. If you have Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides apps installed as well, tapping on any Google document, spreadsheet, or presentation in the Files app will open the app of the associated Google editor. You can also take advantage of new iOS 11 features like dragging and dropping files between apps and folders in the Files App.

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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: How to use Google Drive on iPhone and iPad

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In June, 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.

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As we continue to add new features to the overall Jamboard experience, we’ve been working to make the Jamboard app more functional and easier to use on your mobile phone. The latest jamboard release allows you to present your jams to a meeting directly from your phone, so you can share ideas with remote colleagues even if you don’t have a board nearby.

To present a jam to a meeting from your phone, simply tap the overflow menu in the upper right corner when viewing your jams, and select “Present to meeting.” Enter the meeting ID, tap “Join,” and then “Present”:

While presenting, tap the laser pointer icon in the header and use your finger to highlight key areas of your jam:

Swipe left or right to present different jams to the meeting:

We’ve also made jams easier to create and share on the go, enhanced the experience to join a live jam session on a nearby board, and improved the overall mobile UI.

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

*G Suite for Education customers will need to satisfy certain requirements in order to purchase Jamboard devices. See the Help Center FAQ for more information.

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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To create professional-looking spreadsheets, it’s often critical that you can append them with certain information—for instance, your company’s name, a confidentiality notice, and any other important details. With this launch, we’re making it easier to do just that. Going forward, you can customize the headers and footers in your Google Sheets documents with the text of your choosing. In addition, you can select from many more pre-defined options (for date, time, etc.) and move those options around within your header and footer. Simply choose “EDIT CUSTOM FIELDS” from the Print settings menu to get started.


As a bonus, we’re also introducing saved print settings with this launch. Just modify your settings once, and they’ll be retained the next time you—or a collaborator—opens that same spreadsheet.

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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Posted by Dave Oleson, Product Manager, Data Studio 

Last year, we unveiled a new data visualization and reporting platform for businesses—Data Studio.

Data Studio lets you connect to all your data and turn it into beautiful, informative reports that are fully customizable, easy to understand and easy to share.

Making it easy to share data within your organization — or with the world
One of the fundamental ideas behind Data Studio is that data should be easily accessible to anyone in an organization. We believe that as more people have access to data, better decisions will be made. With multiple data connectors in Data Studio―including CloudSQL, BigQuery, Google Sheets, and many other Google services―you can easily create dashboards from many different types of data and share them with everyone in your organization. And you can mix and match data sources within a single report.

Data Studio also offers integration with a wide variety of non-Google data sources, including a connector to SQL databases that will let you access first-party data.

Data Studio is more than just sharing reports with other people—it’s true collaboration. We used the same infrastructure as Google Docs, so you can edit reports together, in real time. This is useful as you combine data from multiple teams and need others to add analysis and context to the report.

Visualization tools to style your reports and data
In addition to new sharing and collaboration tools, Data Studio gives you many flexible ways to present your data. Sure, there’s the usual assortment of bar charts, pie charts, and time series. But we’ve also included some new visualizations—like bullet charts—that help you communicate your progress towards a business goal.
Another advanced feature is the ability to create a heatmap using tabular data. This visualization makes it easy to instantly identify outliers within a table of data.

Data Studio also has an array of other features to help you customize how you present your data. There are a number of stylistic tools that let you design your reports to represent your specific brand. There are also interactive data controls, like a date picker and dynamic filters, that enable report editors to make reports interactive for viewers.

Getting started
These are just a few of the tools that you can use to help others in your organization understand data. For more information, check out our Help Center and Community Forum.

Though not an official G Suite service, Data Studio is currently available globally for free. We hope it helps you share more data and make better business decisions.

Additional Information

• How Data Studio works
• Google Data Studio Terms of Service

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(Cross-posted from The Keyword, with some additional details)

As a go-to presentation tool, Google Slides already comes equipped with real-time collaboration features. Starting today, we’re introducing new robust features to help you and your team win that pitch, nail that client presentation and get buy-in for new ideas—all while saving valuable time.

Here’s a look at the latest updates in Slides, including new G Suite integrations, partner applications and customization options.

Capture ideas in Keep, bring them to life in Slides
We built Keep to help you easily capture and organize ideas. Today, you can use a new drag-and-drop integration between Keep and Slides to transform these ideas into action. Simply select notes from Keep (or sort with #labels) and drag them into Slides. When you add a note from Keep into your presentation, Slides will automatically add a title and description for you.


The Office of Information Technology for the State of Colorado uses the new Keep and Slides integration to keep track of population numbers at different agencies and report them to their team. Instead of digging through emails and Docs to track down figures, the team saves statistics to Keep and drags them into Slides to present.

If you’re new to Keep, download here.

Skip manual updates, use linked Slides
Whether you’re trying to prepare several client presentations or make sure data is up to date, repeatedly copying slides from one presentation to another is a major time-sink. Now, you can link and sync slides from multiple presentations with a click. This way, you can maintain a single source of truth and easily update linked slides to match the source, like for quarterly business reviews or company presentations.


Sriram Iyer, Senior Director of Product Management at Salesforce Sales Cloud, is excited to use the new slide embedding feature to streamline his teams workflows. Says Iyer, “At Salesforce, we use Google Slides for customer-facing and internal presentations. The linked slides feature will help us easily keep presentations up-to-date.”

You asked, we updated
Our customers also asked for additional features in Slides. We listened to those requests and now you can:

• Insert Diagrams, or ready-to-use visualizations. This is great for when you need to effectively share timelines, processes or hierarchies.
• Select Grid view to view all your slides at once as thumbnails. This helps you easily reorder or change formats of multiple slides.
• Tailor presentations to different audiences with the Skip slide feature. You can now choose to skip select slides without fully deleting then when you present from your phone or laptop.

Try these feature upgrades and create better presentations.

Try new add-ons, shape up your Slides
We’re constantly improving Slides to provide you with robust tools to share ideas. Today, we’re bringing add-ons to Slides. To kick it off, we’re introducing seven integrations—designed to bring expertise from companies like Adobe and Shutterstock—right in Slides.

Use these new, rich integrations to help you build more powerful presentations, whether you want to add full-bleed images, use advanced image editing tools or include diagrams you created in programs outside of G Suite.

Search for and add images from Adobe Stock, right in Slides.
You can use the Adobe Stock add-on to build visually-stunning presentations in Slides. Teams can seamlessly search, preview and purchase Adobe Stock images—without leaving Slides. Through the add-on, teams can also use Adobe Stock Visual Search to find relevant stock images with an uploaded image (versus a text search).

Use the Shutterstock Editor add-on to add and customize photos within Slides.
With the Shutterstock add-on, teams can browse Shutterstock’s entire library of royalty-free images, and sign into Shutterstock to license content, directly in Slides. Select an image, then apply customization options like filters, text, logos and more.

Teams can benefit from even more powerful capabilities in Slides with additional add-ons from Balsamiq, Lucidchart, Pear Deck, Noun Project and Unsplash. Tap “Add-ons” in the Slides menu bar to get started.

In addition, starting today, you can pair add-ons with templates in Slides—just like you can in Docs and Sheets. Keep in mind that add-ons will only work if they’re enabled for your domain, and templates paired with add-ons will abide by the same Admin console settings as all other templates. These templates will be available in English only.

Customize Slides, automate workflows with Apps Script
Apps Script, the same technology that powers add-ons, can transform the way you work. Apps Script for Slides lets your teams programmatically create and modify Slides, and customize the menus, dialog boxes and sidebars in the user interface.

So, what’s the big deal? Apps Script provides amazing possibilities for improving your team’s workflows. Sales teams can use Apps Script to automatically pull in information from Sheets’ databases to create customized client pitch decks and templates. Marketing teams can host internal assets in a customized sidebar in Slides for easy access to logos and files they use most often.

To learn more about how you can automate your workflows using Apps Script, check out this post.

Present with confidence using Slides.

NOTE: All of the features above are launching on the web only, with the exception of the Skip slide feature, which is available on Android and iOS devices as well.

Launch Details
Release track:
All web features launching to Rapid Release, with Scheduled Release coming in two weeks*; all mobile features launching to both Rapid Release and Scheduled Release

*The Balsamiq template will appear immediately in the Slides template gallery, but the add-on functionality associated with it will launch only to domains on the Rapid Release track. Domains on the Scheduled Release track will see add-on functionality in two 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: Use Google Keep in a document or presentation
Help Center: Link a chart, table, or slides to Google Docs or Slides
Help Center: Insert and arrange text, shapes, diagrams, and lines
Help Center: Add, delete, & organize slides
Help Center: Use add-ons & Apps Script
Help Center: Create a file from a template


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Managing the ownership of a former employee’s calendar events and ensuring that calendar resources don’t remain booked by their stale events are challenging tasks for admins. When an employee leaves an organization, you can either delete their account or suspend it for a certain amount of time before deleting it.

Today, we’re introducing a new set of tools to better assist admins with managing former employees’ calendar events, which will help you streamline your company’s employee exit workflows.

When you delete a user, you can choose to transfer their future events to a new owner and optionally, release the resources that these events occupy. This ensures continuity of the scheduled events with an active employee who can continue managing them. You can change ownership of an employee’s events via the user deletion flow, by navigating to Apps > G Suite > Calendar > Manage User Data, or via the Data Transfer API.


If you choose not to transfer events upon user deletion, it is recommended that you opt in to have Calendar automatically cancel future events for all deleted employees, 21 days after the deletion. This will ensure that no unmanaged future events remain in the calendars of guests and resources. To opt in for automatic cancellation, navigate to Apps > G Suite > Calendar > Manage User Data.

At any other time (e.g. after a user’s suspension), you can manually initiate event transfer, event cancellation or resource release of future events, by navigating to Apps > G Suite > Calendar > Manage User Data.


Please note, this service is available to Super Admins and to admins who have the Data Transfer privilege.

For more information, please visit 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:
Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility)

Impact:
Admins only

Action:
Admin action suggested/FYI

More Information
Help Center: Manage Calendar events for suspended or deleted accounts

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Single-Sign-On (SSO) enables users to access their enterprise cloud applications—including administrators signing in to the Admin console—by signing in one time for all services. Google supports the two most popular Enterprise SSO standards, OpenID Connect and SAML. There are over 800 applications with pre-integrated SSO support in our third party apps catalog already, and we are constantly adding more.

Today, we’re adding SAML integration for ten additional applications: BambooHR, ClearSlide, Domo, Egnyte, Federated Directory, HipChat Server, Samanage, SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication, UserTesting, and Workfront.

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 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 (potentially longer than 3 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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Gmail’s Hosted S/MIME solution currently requires certificates to be from certain trusted root Certificate Authorities (CAs) that meet very specific guidelines; however, a popular request from our enterprise customers has been allowing you to upload, from within the Admin Console, additional root certificates that you want Hosted S/MIME to trust. Today we’re making this possible for Gmail administrators using Hosted S/MIME.

Accepting additional Root Certificates

Google has a set of requirements for acceptable S/MIME encrypted messages which follow strict security guidelines; however, you may have noticed that recipients that don’t meet these requirements appear as not “trusted” and can’t be sent those messages. Once this new admin console control is available, you will be able to upload additional root certificates to ensure the email you want to have trusted by Gmail servers are designated as such for your users. For details on how to get started, see our Help Center article.

Please note: While accepting additional root certificates will remove the ‘not trusted’ indicator in Gmail, we recommend evaluating current certificate best practices as outlined here.

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

Editions:
Available for G Suite Enterprise customers only

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

Impact:
Admins only

Action:
Admin action suggested/FYI

More Information
Help Center: Enable hosted S/MIME for enhanced message security
Help Center: S/MIME certificate profile requirements
Help Center: CA certificates trusted by Gmail for S/MIME

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Starting today, in situations where a user is sent a link to a file in a Team Drive that they don’t have access to, we’ll only send the Request Access notification to the creator of the file, or a limited group of individuals who had relevant interaction with the Team Drive. We will no longer always send it to all members of the Team Drive.

This change not only helps to ensure that the members of your Team Drives aren’t receiving unnecessary emails, it also prevents unwanted oversharing of Team Drive content.

Please Note: We are continuing to add signals and improve the quality of our Request Access notifications so the members of your Team Drives can quickly gain access to content.

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

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

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

Impact:
All end users

Action:
Change management suggested/FYI

More Information on how to use Team Drives
Help Center: Share files with Team Drives

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