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What’s changingWe’re combining the Admin console settings for Hangouts Chat and classic Hangouts. This will make it easier to manage your policies and make sure they’re configured appropriately. The new settings will be located at Admin console > Apps > G Suite > Hangouts Chat.

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Who’s impactedAdmins only
Why you’d use itThese Admin console settings help you dictate how your organization uses G Suite messaging products. For example, you can set policies for chat history, external user chats, and third-party integrations (bots). With this update, you only need to go to one place to control all the chat settings for your organization. This can help to simplify deployment and ensure policies are set up as desired.
How to get started

Additional detailsNote, we will not be making any changes to your effective settings—only the location and presentation of the settings will change. Clicking “Chat Settings” from the classic Hangouts page in the Admin console will redirect you to the Hangouts Chat settings page. From there, you'll find all of the settings that control chatting across both classic Hangouts and Hangouts Chat.

The specific policies affected by this change, along with details of the impact of the change, are shown in the Help Center. The new policies can be customized for each organizational unit (OU).

Additional details on the function of the settings and what products they apply to are provided in the Admin console interface:

The new combined settings in the Admin console 

Helpful links

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G Suite editions

  • Available to all G Suite editions.

On/off by default?

  • These changes will take place automatically for all domains once rollout is complete.

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Quick launch summary We’re making some updates to the My Devices page. Users can go to the page to see the devices they’ve used to log in to G Suite and then manage those devices. It includes detailed device information, an option to log out of the device, and an option to wipe the device. You may notice:

  • A new URL, as the page is now found at mydevices.google.com, rather than google.com/apps/mydevices. Soon, we’ll start to redirect users from the old site to the new site. 
  • The page now includes both mobile and desktop devices. The old page only showed mobile devices. 
  • Detailed device information. This is the same as the previous site. 
  • Options to manage device access and wipe the device if desired. This is the same as the previous site. 


The new My Devices page at mydevices.google.com 


The old My Devices page at google.com/apps/mydevices 
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Available to all G Suite editions

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This feature will be ON by default.

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Quick launch summaryWe’re adding a setting in the Admin console so you, as an admin, can control whether Working Hours is enabled for users in your domain.

If you’d like to disable Working Hours, navigate to Admin console > Apps > G Suite > Settings for Calendar > Sharing Settings. There, under “Working Hours” you’ll see the new checkbox: “Allow users to set working hours.”

AvailabilityRollout details


G Suite editions

  • Available to all G Suite editions

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  • This setting will be ON by default and can be enabled at the organizational unit level.

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Quick launch summaryWe’ve added right-to-left language support in new Google Sites for the following languages:
  • Arabic
  • Farsi
  • Hebrew
  • Urdu
When a site editor has their language set to one of the above, the site editing experience will adjust to place the editing sidebars and menus on the left-hand side of the screen.



Similarly, once a site is published, site viewers who have their default language set to one of the above will see navigation elements like menus reversed to match the right-to-left language.

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  • Available to all G Suite editions

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Quick launch summaryEarlier this year, we announced the ability to add audio to Google Slides presentations. This feature is fully available to Rapid release domains now. It’s currently rolling out to Scheduled release domains and should be fully available to all users by the end of November.

AvailabilityRollout details


G Suite editions

  • Available to all G Suite editions. 


On/off by default? 

  • This feature will be ON by default.


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What’s changingWe’re adding support for migrating Microsoft Exchange In-Place Archives to the G Suite Migrate beta. Admins can use this new functionality to migrate the content of their user’s Exchange In-Place Archives to G Suite. Additionally, admins can:

  • Make migrated archive mail only visible in Google Vault (not Gmail).
  • Make attachments of archived mail uploaded to Google Drive only visible in Google Vault. If you turn on this setting, large email attachments will be visible in Vault (not Drive).
  • Choose how to apply labels to archive folders in Gmail.

Who’s impactedAdmins only

Why it’s importantPreviously, it wasn’t possible to migrate archived email from Exchange to Gmail. This feature makes it easy for admins to migrate both active and archived email to G Suite.

How to get started
Helpful linksAvailability
Rollout details
G Suite editions
  • Available to G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise, G Suite Enterprise for Education, and Drive for Enterprise
  • Not available to G Suite Basic, G Suite for Education, and G Suite for Nonprofits

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Quick launch summarySite editors can now insert collapsible text boxes into a new Google Site, which site viewers can click to expand. Collapsible text boxes can help condense large blocks of text, like content on FAQ or Help Center pages, allowing site viewers to quickly navigate to the most relevant information.


To learn more about using collapsible text boxes in Google Sites, visit our Help Center.

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Quick launch summary You can learn how to organize information and analyze data using the Getting Started with Google Sheets course now available on Coursera. This course is ideal for users who are new to Sheets, such as new employees being onboarded to G Suite, or students looking to sharpen their analytical skills. 

This course is free for all users, or you can pay an additional fee for access to additional content, projects, quizzes and a course certificate. The Getting Started with Google Sheets course will be available in most countries, see here for more information about availability.

Visit the Coursera website to access the Getting Started with Google Sheets course. To find other learning opportunities, visit the Coursera Google Cloud Learning Site.

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Quick launch summaryYou can now set group membership deletion limits in Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS). By adding these limits, you can prevent accidental removal of memberships from groups, as those errors can inadvertently cause users to lose access to things like Drive files and Google Cloud Platform resources.

Limits are not required and can be anywhere from 0-100% or any number greater than 0. Once a limit is set, if a sync attempts to delete more than that percentage or amount of members in any group, the sync will abort.



Please make sure you are using the most up-to-date version of GCDS to access this feature.
AvailabilityRollout details
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  • Available to all G Suite editions
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  • This feature will be OFF by default and can be enabled at the GCDS group level.
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Check out the latest "What's New in G Suite" launch recap (pdf) for a roundup of all G Suite launches from October 2019.

Archive and translated versions (coming soon for October issue)

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