More admin control over Apps Script projects with Google Cloud Console management
Thursday, May 16, 2019
- Gives IT admins additional controls: This feature helps make Apps Script projects more secure by providing additional control and visibility over these projects to IT administrators. Admins who have not yet defined organization policies can now do so to control Apps Script projects. Admins who have already defined organization policies are now assured that those policies will also be applied to Apps Script projects.
- Simplifies developer project management: Developers no longer need to visit the Cloud Console to enable Google APIs - simply enabling it in the Apps Script editor is now all that’s needed.
- Removes ‘risky’ label for end users: End users of internally-created Apps Script projects will no longer see those projects labeled “risky” when they visit the Google Security Checkup tool at myaccount.google.com.
- Admins: Check your organization policies which will apply to new Apps Script projects.
- Developers: No action needed.
- End users: No action needed.
Previously, these GCP Apps Script projects existed outside of the resource hierarchy. Now, new Apps Script projects will be parented by a new “apps-script” folder in the resource hierarchy, specifically at organization root > system-gsuite (new) > apps-script (new).
This means they will be governed by organization policies, which give you centralized and programmatic control over your organization's cloud resources. Policies that can be managed here include the ability to restrict domains that are allowed to be on the ACL for Cloud projects, specify restricted APIs that Cloud projects can access, and block GCP projects from creating new GCE instances.
- Apps Script information and resources
- Documentation: Introduction to the Organization Policy Service
- Documentation: Resource Hierarchy
- Rapid Release domains: This feature is already available.
- Scheduled Release domains: This feature is already available.
G Suite editions
- Available to all G Suite editions.
On/off by default?
- This feature will be ON by default.
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