Admins will now be able to see events that include both their organization and another external organization or user (Copy, Move, ACL Change, etc.) in their Drive audit logs. 

For example, if you have an external guest user on some of your organization’s documents and the guest makes a copy of the document in their organization, that Copy event will now show in your audit logs. This can help you see new audit log events related to potential exfiltration that you could not see before.

You can now embed linked response charts from Google Forms into a Google Doc, Google Slides presentation, or a Google Drawing. When new form responses are received, anyone with the proper permissions can refresh an embedded chart by simply clicking the "Update" button. This eliminates the need to re-copy the chart from the form. 

This feature is useful for sharing real-time responses to polls or surveys and for incorporating Forms responses data into presentations or reports. 

Embedding a form chart

We're introducing several improvements for Spaces in Google Chat to help you better organize people, topics, and projects. 

These improvements include: 

• Manager role so certain users have greater control over the management of a space. 
• Space descriptions so users can set context for their spaces. 
• Space guidelines to ensure safe and effective communication environments. 

Who’s impacted 

End users 

Why it’s important 

The Manager role provides tools to promote healthy conversations and control the availability of the space within an organization. Space creators will be managers by default and can assign other members in the space this role as well. 

 Space managers will have a badge next to their name on the member list

Managers can also add a description for spaces. This field can be used to describe the purpose of the space, such as ’a place to discuss all things asteroids,’ which is helpful context for members of the space.

You can add a space description when creating a space or by selecting “View space details” for an existing space on both web and mobile. Space descriptions can be viewed when a user is in the “Browse Spaces” view or by selecting “View space details.”

Adding a space description

Additionally, Managers can describe space guidelines that establish rules and expectations for members to create a safer community experience. 

Space guidelines

We hope this feature makes it easier to share the purpose and guidelines for a particular space, making it easier for your collaborators to navigate quickly to the appropriate space. 

Getting started 

• Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.Visit the Help Center to learn more about optimizing Chat spaces for your organization 
• End users: There is no end user setting for this feature. 

Rollout pace 

Space Roles: 

Mobile: 

• Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on February 28, 2022, with anticipated completion by March 14, 2022 

Web: 

• Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on March 8, 2022 

Space Descriptions and Guidelines: 

• We anticipate rollout for the descriptions and guidelines features to begin later this month. We’ll share an update on the Workspace Updates Blog when rollout begins. 

Availability 

• Available to all Google Workspace customers, as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers 
• Available to users with personal Google Accounts 

Resources 

• Google Workspace Admin Help: Optimize Chat spaces for your organization 
• Google Help:About spaces and group conversations 
• Google Workspace Updates Blog: Google Chat ‘Rooms’ are now ‘Spaces’ 

Roadmap 

This feature was listed as an upcoming release.

We’re adding 40+ content detectors, which expand the type of content that data loss prevention (DLP) in Drive can scan and detect. 

New intelligent, machine learning based detectors for content inspection of documents, such as: 

• SEC filings 
• Legal briefs and court orders 
• Tax documents 
• Contracts 
• Patents 
• Resumes 
• Finance Forms 
• Source codes, system logs, and more. 

These machine based learning detectors are pre-trained to automatically detect sensitive content, requiring no additional work on the part of the admin. 

Additionally, we’ve added over forty new parameters for regional security, such as: 

• Auth token 
• API Keys 
• Belgium ID 
• Global VIN
• Germany TIN 
• India GST and more.

Visit the Help Center for a complete list of pre-defined detectors for DLP data loss prevention in Google Drive. 

Unless otherwise indicated, the features below are fully launched or in the process of rolling out (rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete), launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time (if not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete), and available to all Google Workspace and G Suite customers.

Google Workspace Migrate, previously announced in beta in 2019, is now generally available for select Google Workspace Editions. This first-party, on-premise product helps admins assess and plan migration projects, and confidently migrate their users and large amounts of critical content directly into Google Workspace.