Instead of using a 2-Step Verification code to sign in to your G Suite account, you can tap a prompt that Google sends to your phone. This prompt is an easier and even more secure way of authenticating your account, and it respects mobile policies enforced on G Suite employee devices.

Until now, in order to receive Google prompts on a new device, you had to explicitly approve that phone when you first signed in with your G Suite account. With this launch, however, you can opt to get Google prompts on all of your devices automatically.


To get Google sign-in prompts on all of your phones, visit the 2-Step Verification page in My Account.

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: Sign in faster with 2-Step Verification phone prompts


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You can now manage your Jamboards, along with your users and other devices, all in one place. We’re moving Jamboard fleet management and administration into the Admin console under Device Management > Jamboards. This move creates a more consistent and intuitive resource management experience for G Suite admins.



This replaces the Jamboard Admin console, but all of its functionality to provision, deprovision, and see device health is still available and all of its settings will be preserved. We’ve also added new features like filtering for improved searching, pagination, and a refresh button.

Visit the Help Center for more information on viewing, modifying, and updating settings for your Jamboard in the Jamboard Admin console.

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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Help Center: Manage your Jamboards

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You can now show automated closed captions in real-time when presenting in Google Slides. This feature uses your computer’s microphone to detect your spoken presentation, and then transcribes what you say as captions on the slides you’re presenting. We hope that this will make your presentations more effective in more environments to a wider audience.

Captions created automatically from your audio 

If you turn captions on, Google Slides will use the audio from your microphone to automatically create captions of what you say. These captions will display in real time at the bottom of your screen to all audience members watching the presentation. This will work for local presentations and for presentations over video conferencing software, where captions will show on the shared screen.

The feature works in U.S. English on Chrome browsers. Captions are created from the presenter’s computer and its microphone, so captions may not work consistently if there are multiple presenters using different computers. You may want to let the audience know that captions are from Google Slides, not the video conferencing software, and that only the speaker's voice is captioned.

Helps improve accessibility and in environments where it’s hard to hear 

This feature can help make your presentation more effective for:

• Audience members who are deaf or hard of hearing 
• Non-native speakers and/or audience members who prefer written content 
• In venues with poor audio or in noisy ambient environments 

To find out how to turn on and use automated captions in Slides, visit our Help Center.

Launch Details 
Release track:
Launching to Rapid Release, with Scheduled Release coming 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: Present slides with captions 


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In August, we launched the option for G Suite admins to receive a security alert if we believed their users were being targeted by a government-backed attack. At the time, admins had to explicitly enable these alerts. We heard that many admins weren’t aware of this alert and so weren’t receiving this critical information. As a result, we’re going to turn these alerts ON for most admins starting October 10th, 2018.


You’ll still have the option to turn these alerts OFF by navigating to Reports > Manage alerts > Government-backed attack warning in the Admin console—or you can simply opt out any time you receive an alert email.

Note that if you previously enabled and then disabled these alerts, they will remain off. If you’d prefer not to receive these alerts after October 10th, simply turn them on and then off again in the Admin console prior to that date. We won’t override alert preferences that have been explicitly changed prior to October 10th.

Launch Details
Release track: 
Launching to both Rapid Release and Scheduled Release on October 10th, 2018

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
G Suite Updates blog: Control government-backed attack alerts in G Suite
Help Center: Fix or stop government-backed attack alerts


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We recently announced that we’re extending the Gmail API to bring G Suite developers new ways to manage the Gmail delegate settings of users in G Suite. These new features will allow G Suite admins to authorize apps that can then add, view, and delete Gmail delegates within their organizations.

Once set up, a Gmail delegate can read, send, and delete messages, as well as view and add contacts, on behalf of another user in their organization. For example, an admin can now use the Gmail API to grant an administrative assistant access to the Gmail of an executive they work with.

You can read more about these capabilities in our post on the G Suite blog.

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 and end users

Action:
Admin action suggested/FYI

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G Suite blog: New ways to manage delegate settings using the Gmail API
Google Developers Guide: Managing Delegates

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To make sure all attendees see the most up-to-date event information, we’re changing how Google Calendar communicates event updates to meeting attendees who don’t use Google Calendar. Specifically, users who don’t use Calendar will now always be sent an email when an event is created, updated or deleted in Google Calendar. Previously, some calendar systems would not update these details without an email, meaning event information was sometimes outdated. This feature has been widely requested by customers to help keep event details up to date for all users.

“Don’t send” option for Google Calendar users

When you create or change an event, Google Calendar asks if you want to notify attendees. This choice will only apply to Google Calendar attendees. Regardless of what notification choice you make, Google Calendar attendees’ events will be kept up to date.


We’ll also be making some changes to the Calendar API to support this feature. You can learn more about the new sendUpdates parameter in the Calendar API reference.

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

More Information
Help Center: Sending event invitations and updates
Google Developers: Calendar API

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G Suite admins in domains with Google Mobile Management enabled can already take actions to protect the data on their users’ mobile devices. For example, they can require devices to have screen locks and wipe devices when they’re lost or stolen. With this launch, we’re giving admins additional capabilities—they can now remotely reset the password on a company-owned Android device or lock the device entirely.


Reset device password

If a user forgets their device password, you may want to reset it for them.


Check out the Help Center for instructions on how to reset the password on a user’s device.

Lock device

If a user loses their device, you may want to lock it until it’s found. This will force users to enter the device’s password before using it.


Check out the Help Center for more info on locking user devices.

Please note that the reset password and lock functions can only be used in domains that have advanced mobile management enabled.

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

Editions:
Available to G Suite Business and Enterprise editions, as well as Cloud Identity Premium

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

Impact:
Admins only

Action:
Admin action suggested/FYI

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Help Center: Lock a device and reset its password


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As a G Suite admin, it’s important that you can easily view and obtain critical information about the mobile devices your organization manages. That’s why we’re making those details easier to find and utilize with our updated mobile device list in the Admin console.

Filter for key characteristics, take bulk actions, and more

This list, located at Device management > Mobile devices, is not only faster and easier to scan, it allows you to do the following:

• Filter by several categories (e.g. user name, last sync date, compromised devices, etc.), and save the URL to apply the same filters later.
• Search by keyword or serial number.
• Add and remove columns, and increase the number of rows shown per page.
• Download selected columns, export them to Google Sheets, and view the progress of that task.
• Take action on multiple devices at once and directly from the device details page.

The mobile device list now shows all assigned mobile devices (both company-owned and personal) in one view.


More details about individual devices

Depending on the type of mobile management (advanced or basic) you have enabled for your organization, you can take some of the following actions when you click on a specific mobile device in the list:

• Block, wipe, or delete the device or account.
• See all of the apps installed on that device, and identify those that may be harmful.
• Email the device’s user directly.
• Learn if a device isn’t compliant and why.

Visit the Help Center to learn more about the new and improved mobile devices list, and the ways it can help you manage mobile devices in your organization.

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

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Help Center: View and manage mobile devices


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The next release of the Google Device Policy app (version 3.04) won’t support mobile devices running iOS version 8.0 or lower. If your organization has advanced mobile device management (MDM) enabled, your users must upgrade to iOS version 9.0 or higher to access new MDM features or if they need to download the Device Policy app for the first time.

We’re planning to release version 3.04 of the Device Policy app as early as next week. Please encourage your users to upgrade their iOS devices as soon as possible to avoid any disruption to their work.

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Help Center: Minimum device requirements 

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