We launched the Admin SDK in May as a new way for developers to build customized administrative tools for organizations that use Google Apps. A top priority for most administrators is keeping their users safe. Today, we're adding new security management features to the Directory API to help administrators manage:

• Access granted by domain users to third-party applications
• Application specific passwords created by users
• Backup verification codes for users using 2-step verification.

As an example, FlashPanel, a popular tool used by Google Apps administrators, is using these new features to allow domain admins to review installed applications and manage or revoke access to them. The Apps Explorer in FlashPanel allows admins to see which are the most installed apps in his domain or use a filter to review applications by type of permissions (Drive, GMail, etc). It also allows admins to review the number of users who have granted access to a particular application.

The screenshot below shows an example of FlashPanel’s customized view of third-party application installs.

In FlashPanel’s integration, admins have the power to whitelist or blacklist apps, as shown below.

The Directory API now also provides the ability to manage admin notifications that are delivered to the Admin Console. Currently, admins receive notifications for events that affect their domains such as users approaching their storage limits or monthly bills that are due. Now you can use the API to list notifications, update their read status, or pull them into custom tools.

If you are interested in using these new endpoints, please refer to the Directory API documentation.

Ajay Guwalani   Ajay Guwalani is Product Manager on Google Apps Admin APIs. His current focus is to build next generation admin APIs to make enterprise developers and admins happy.

The APIs for three of Apps Script's advanced services — Analytics, BigQuery, and Prediction — will undergo breaking changes on Monday, November 18. If you don't update your code to the new syntax before then, you'll receive error messages such as Required parameter is missing.

Advanced services allow you to easily connect to certain public Google APIs from Apps Script. We're working to expand and improve our advanced services, and as a side effect some methods and parameters that were incorrectly listed as optional are now required.

On November 18, these services will switch to use the new method signatures shown in the tables below. To learn how new arguments should be structured, refer to the documentation for the underlying API. For example, the documentation for the BigQuery service's Jobs.query() method shows the valid properties for the resource object in the "Request body" section of the page.

.deleteUploadData(
    accountId, 
    webPropertyId, 
    customDataSourceId, 
    optionalArgs)

.deleteUploadData(
    resource, 
    accountId, 
    webPropertyId, 
    customDataSourceId)

.insert(
    resource, 
    optionalArgs)

.insert(
    resource, 
    projectId)

.update(
    resource,
    optionalArgs)

.update(
    resource, 
    projectId,
    datasetId)

.insert(
    resource, 
    mediaData,
    optionalArgs)

.insert(
    resource, 
    projectId, 
    mediaData)

.query(
    projectId,
    query)

.query(
    resource,
    projectId)

.insertAll(
    projectId,
    datasetId, 
    tableId,
    optionalArgs)

.insertAll(
    resource,
    projectId, 
    datasetId, 
    tableId)

.insert(
    resource,
    optionalArgs)

.insert(
    resource, 
    projectId,
    datasetId)

.update(
    resource, 
    optionalArgs)

.update(
    resource, 
    projectId,
    datasetId,
    tableId)

.predict(
    project, 
    hostedModelName, 
    optionalArgs)

.predict(
    resource,
    project, 
    hostedModelName)

.insert(
    project, 
    optionalArgs)

.insert(
    resource,
    project)

.predict(
    project, 
    id, 
    optionalArgs)

.predict(
    resource, 
    project, 
    id)

.update(
    project, 
    id, 
    optionalArgs)

.update(
    resource, 
    project, 
    id)

If you want to prepare your code ahead of time, you can add a try/catch around your existing code that retries with the new method signature if the old one fails. For example, the following sample applies this approach to the BigQuery service's Jobs.query() method:

  var result;
  try {
    result = BigQuery.Jobs.query(projectId, query, {
      timeoutMs: 10000
    });
  } catch (e) {
    // Refer to the BigQuery documentation for the structure of the 
    // resource object.
    var resource = {
      query: query,
      timeoutMs: 1000
    };
    result = BigQuery.Jobs.query(resource, projectId);
  }

We apologize for inconvenience and look forward to sharing exciting news about advanced services in the coming weeks.

Eric Koleda profile Eric is a Developer Programs Engineer based in NYC on the Google Apps Script team. He's previously worked with the AdWords API and enterprise content management software.