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Quick launch summary
We’ve added dial-in phone numbers for eight additional countries to Google Meet:
  • Chile
  • Guatemala
  • Hong Kong
  • Israel
  • Japan
  • Mexico
  • Peru
  • Trinidad & Tobago
Check out the Help Center for a full list of available countries.

Getting started
  • Admins: This feature will be ON by default for eligible countries. Admins can determine if they’d like to disable telephony at the OU level. Visit the Help Center to learn more about Meet settings for your organization.
  • End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. 

Rollout pace
  • This feature is available now for all users.

Availability
  • Available to Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus, as well as G Suite Basic, Business, Enterprise for Education, and Nonprofits customers
  • Not available to G Suite for Education customers

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Quick launch summary 
You can now mark conversations as favorites in new Google Groups. To mark an item as a favorite, simply click the star icon. You can access starred conversations from the left-hand navigation menu, making them quick and easy to find. When you star an item, it appears as a favorite in your account only. It doesn't appear as a favorite for anyone else. 

This feature was available in classic Groups, but until now it was not available in new Groups. Learn more about new Groups and the transition from classic Groups. 

Getting started 
  • Admins: This feature will be ON by default. There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about how to mark groups and posts as favorites. 



Rollout pace 

Availability 
  • Available to Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus, as well as G Suite Basic, Business, Education, Enterprise for Education, and Nonprofits customers, and users with personal Google Accounts 

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Quick launch summary 
You can now mention another user in Google Docs within the document itself. Previously, this was only possible within a comment. 

When another user is mentioned, you can hover over their name for information about them and suggested actions like adding that person to Contacts or reaching out via email. This is the same information you see today when hovering over a user's name in other Google Workspace apps, such as Gmail or Calendar. 

[Read more about this feature and other new features in the Google Workspace announcement]
Additional details 
In the future, mentioning someone in a document will send them a notification. Stay tuned to the Workspace Updates blog for information on when this will become available.

Additionally, if you mention a user who does not have access to the doc, you’ll receive a prompt with sharing suggestions. You can share the document at that time or decline and use the regular Docs sharing function when the time is right. 

Getting started 
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: This feature is available for all Google Workspace end users. When typing in Docs, press “@” — this will trigger a dropdown menu where you can search for the user you want to mention. 
Rollout pace 
Availability 
  • Available to Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus, as well as G Suite Basic, Business, Education, Enterprise for Education, and Nonprofits customers, and users with personal Google Accounts 
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UpdateOctober 14, 2020: We previously stated that primary domain admins would receive more information from Google by Friday, October 16. Please note that this only applies to customers who bill directly through Google; customers who purchased G Suite from a reseller should reach out to their reseller for more information. 


What’s changing
We’re excited to announce that G Suite is now Google Workspace: everything you need to get anything done, all in one place. Google Workspace features:
  • a deeply integrated user experience that helps teams collaborate more effectively, frontline workers stay connected, and businesses power new digital customer experiences
  • a new brand identity that reflects our ambitious product vision and the way our products work together
  • new ways to get started with solutions tailored to the unique needs of our broad range of customers


As part of this, we're evolving our offerings to better serve the diverse purchasing needs of our large and expanding customer base.
  • For smaller businesses, we’re introducing tailored offerings that make it easy and cost-effective to get started with Google Workspace— including best-in-class collaboration and productivity tools, security protections, and administrative controls.
  • For larger enterprises, we’re introducing a set of offerings with additional productivity features, enterprise-grade administrative controls, and our most advanced security and compliance capabilities, available at both the team and organization level.
Who’s impacted
Admins and end users


Why it’s important
Basic, Business, and Enterprise customers
As an existing G Suite Basic, Business, or Enterprise customer, you can rest assured we’ll give you the time and support needed to transition to one of these new offerings. If you purchased G Suite directly from Google, please look for an email to the primary administrator in your domain arriving no later than Friday, October 16. This email will outline the specific impact to your organization and who to contact for more info.


Education and Nonprofit customers
We are also bringing Google Workspace to our education and nonprofit customers in the coming months. Education customers can continue to access our tools via G Suite for Education, including Classroom, Assignments, Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Meet. G Suite for Nonprofits will continue to be available to eligible organizations through the Google for Nonprofits program.


Essentials customers
G Suite Essentials will now be called Google Workspace Essentials. There are no additional changes to Essentials at this time.


Additional details
The productivity apps you know and love in G Suite aren’t going away—Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, Chat, and all the others will continue to be the foundation of the Google Workspace experience. In the future, we’ll continue to evolve our products to be more flexible, more helpful, and simpler.



Getting started
Admins: Primary domain administrators who purchased G Suite directly from Google will receive an email no later than Friday, October 16. This email will outline the specific impact to your organization and who to contact for more info.

End users: End users will see the new Google Workspace name and icons reflected across our products and properties over the course of the next several weeks.


Rollout pace
  • Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: G Suite is now Google Workspace. You’ll see the new name and icons reflected across our products and properties over the course of the next several weeks.
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Quick launch summary 
You can now create and view tasks in Google Calendar on Android and iOS. Previously, you could only do this in Calendar on the web. Adding tasks to your calendar keeps to-do’s visible and allocates time for you to accomplish them, helping you accomplish what’s important. 

Tasks added to your calendar will automatically sync across desktop and mobile. Visit the Help Center to learn more about getting started with Tasks.



Getting started 
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. 
  • End users: This feature will be available by default. To add a task to your calendar, select the Create button in the bottom right corner and select “Task” from the pop-up menu. Visit the Help Center to learn more about adding Tasks to Calendar on mobile. 
Rollout pace 
Availability 
  • Available to all G Suite customers and all users with personal Google Accounts 
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Quick launch summary
Beginning October 8, we’re making the following changes to the history on/off setting in Google Chat:
  • We're moving the history on/off setting from the compose box to the conversation settings
  • We’ve updated the look and feel of the setting to make it easier to visually tell if you have history set to on or off
Turn history on for a specific conversation

Getting started 
  • Admins: As before, you can control whether or not to keep chat history on for your users. You can set the default and also let users change the history setting for each conversation.
  • End users: If chat history is enabled for your organization, it can be enabled or disabled per conversation in Chat in Gmail or Google Chat. Next to the conversation name, click the arrow and select “Turn on history” or “Turn off history”.
Turn on history in conversation options

Rollout pace

Availability
  • Available to all G Suite customers

 

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What’s changing
Starting October 8, we’re launching two highly-requested features in Google Meet to help you connect and engage with people on your video calls: Q&A and polls.

Allow participants to ask questions while not disrupting the flow of the meeting


Use polls to quickly capture feedback from participants on a call
Who’s impacted
End users

Why you’d use it

Q&A
Q&A in Meet offers an easy way to better engage audiences and help them get their questions answered, both at work and in school. Educators can use Q&A as a structured way for students to ask questions on class content and get answers from teachers. Businesses can use Q&A to help make meetings more inclusive, giving everyone the opportunity to ask questions— including those who may be soft-spoken, joining from a noisy environment, or need more time to process their thoughts. Participants can submit and upvote their favorite questions without disrupting the flow of the call.

Polls
Polls are a great way to quickly gauge the pulse of your audience. You can use polls to identify topics that need more discussion or test understanding of the meeting content. This means business users can easily get real-time feedback from their colleagues, teachers can quiz remote students to ensure they’re absorbing the material, and sales teams can make their sales presentations to prospective customers more engaging and interactive.

Polls in Meet ensure that presenters can get the feedback they need and audience members can make themselves heard, leading to an all-around more engaging, productive, and enjoyable meeting experience.


Additional details

Q&A
With Meet’s new Q&A experience, meeting hosts and moderators can easily turn on question submission. Participants can ask questions and interact with other participants’ questions by upvoting. Moderators can then choose to answer the most highly ranked or most relevant questions on the call. When the meeting ends, hosts will automatically receive an email containing an export of all submitted questions, so they can follow up on unanswered questions.

Note that for G Suite Enterprise for Education domains, question submission is disabled by default. For all others, question submission will be open by default.

Polls
With polls in Meet, moderators can set up multiple questions, viewable to only them, and launch the poll when it’s timely during the call.

Once a poll is closed, meeting hosts will receive a report with the tally of the results to make it easy to refer back and take action. The moderator can then share the results of the poll so that participants can see a summarized bar chart. Moderators also automatically will receive an email containing an export of the poll data in Google Sheets.


Getting started
  • Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
  • End users: These features will be available by default for meetings created by customers of eligible G Suite editions. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Q&A and polls on or off in your video calls.
Rollout pace
Availability
  • Available to G Suite Essentials, G Suite Business, G Suite Enterprise, and G Suite Enterprise for Education customers
  • Not available to G Suite Basic, G Suite for Education, and G Suite for Nonprofits customers 
Resources
Google Meet Help Center
Education Help Center
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What’s changing 
Dynamic groups let you create a group with membership that is automatically kept up to date with a membership query. Dynamic groups can be based on one or many user attributes, including addresses, locations, organizations, and relations. You can manage dynamic groups in the Cloud Identity Groups API and the Admin console. 

Dynamic groups is currently available as an open beta, which means you can use it without enrolling in a specific beta program. 


Who’s impacted 
Admins and developers with group create and user read privileges. 


Why you’d use it 
Dynamic groups work the same as other Google Groups with the added benefit that their memberships are automatically kept up-to-date. This means you can use them for the same functions, including for distribution lists, access-control list (ACL) management, and more. By automating membership management you can increase security, reduce errors, and alleviate user frustration while minimizing the burden on admins. 

Here are some examples of how you can use dynamic groups. You can create groups of: 
  • All users based in your New York office, which you can then use for email communications related to that office location. 
  • All engineers, which you can then use to provide access to specific tools. 


Additional details 
At launch, you won’t be able to manage policies such as context-aware access policies using dynamic groups. Once available, you will be able to create a dynamic group which you could then use to manage specific context-aware access policies. We are working on adding this functionality in the future, and will announce it on the G Suite Updates blog when it’s available. 


Getting started 


Rollout pace 
  • This feature is available now for all eligible users. 
Availability 
  • Available to G Suite Enterprise, G Suite Enterprise for Education, and Cloud Identity Premium customers 
  • Not available to G Suite Essentials, G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite for Education, G Suite for Nonprofits, and Cloud Identity Free customers 
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What’s changing 
We’re adding the ability to set expirations for group memberships using the Cloud Identity Groups API. This enables admins to set an amount of time that users are members of a group. Once the specified time has passed, users will be removed from the group automatically. 

Membership expiry is currently available as an open beta, which means you can use it without enrolling in a specific beta program. 


Who’s impacted 
Admins and developers 


Why it’s important 
Groups are a powerful way to manage permissions and access control in your organization.In many cases,, there’s a known amount of time that a user should be a member of a group. This can make managing membership time consuming, and increases the possibility that a user has overly-broad access. 

Automatic membership expiration can help reduce the administrative overhead for managing groups, and can help ensure group membership is limited to the members that need access. This can help: 
  • Increase security by ensuring users do not have long lived membership in groups, and that your group memberships don’t become too expansive. 
  • Manage security groups by using group membership with our recent launch of security groups. 
  • Reduce admin time and administration costs by automating some group management tasks 
Getting started 
Rollout pace 
  • This feature is available now for all users. 
Availability 
  • Available to G Suite Enterprise, G Suite Enterprise for Education, and Cloud Identity Premium customers 
  • Not available to G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite for Education, G Suite for Nonprofits, G Suite Essentials, and Cloud Identity Free customers 
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What’s changing 
We’re launching Sheets Smart Cleanup, two features that will make it easier to prepare and analyze data in Sheets: 
  • Cleanup suggestions, which helps ensure your data is accurate by identifying and suggesting fixes for common data errors. 
  • Column stats, which provides automated insights about the values within a column, so you can identify outliers and quickly get a sense of what your data looks like. 

We previously announced that Sheets Smart Cleanup was coming soon. See more details below. 


Who’s impacted 
End users 


Why it’s important 
These features assist in the identification of possible cleanup actions, and help you be more confident that your data isn’t distorted by simple errors. It will also enable quicker analysis by generating intelligent views that can help surface insights, which you can then choose to look into more closely. 


Additional details 
Cleanup suggestions 
Before analyzing and making decisions based on data in your sheets, it’s important to clean up your data by rectifying errors and improving data consistency. Cleanup suggestions will help you do this by surfacing intelligent suggestions in the side panel. These suggestions may include removing extra spaces, removing duplicate rows, adding number formatting, identifying anomalies, fixing inconsistent data, and more. This can help make data cleanup faster and more accurate. 



Column stats 
Column stats can help you quickly get a sense for your data by automatically generating visualizations and key stats that provide insight into the data in a specific column. These insights can include count and distribution charts, frequency tables, and summary statistics. This can help you quickly catch potential outliers and confidently move on to deeper analysis. 


Getting started 
  • Admins: There is no admin control for these features. 
  • End users: 
    • Cleanup suggestions: When you are in Sheets, go to Data > Cleanup suggestions. When you import data into Sheets, you may see a proactive notification as well. Visit our Help Center to learn more about cleanup suggestions. 
    • Column stats: When you are in Sheets, go to Data > Column stats. Visit our Help Center to learn more about column stats. 
Rollout pace 
Availability 
  • Available to all G Suite customers and users with personal Google Accounts 
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