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Google Worskpace Heard My Prayers, Thanks a lot!

I've received the Google Workspace Updates email merge about the updated that I was looking forward to receiving. Now, Admins can now configure whether users can use temporary chats and delete their conversation history. Temporary chats allows users ...

anderson by New Contributor III
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Gopher for Chrome- Worth it?

I'm doing a lot of device and user cleanup this summer, and Gopher would really help me move faster and at scale. Does anyone have pricing or privacy info on this tool? Anecdotes welcome too. 

GCPW when Google is authenticated behind an SSO provider

Has anyone experienced or worked with this scenario:We have an SSO provider that apps authenticate to (SAML, etc.)Google authenticates (and password management) through this SSO providerHow would installing GCPW work (or not work, or difficulties) wh...

Microsoft and Google

HelloSo lots of us have to deal with 2 systems.  Microsoft and Google.   For the people who are mainly Google apps shops how do you handle authentication to Microsoft?   Do you have your users maintain 2 separate 2 factor/account configurations? Do y...

E8419 by New Contributor III
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Who has moved to Chrome devices for some or all staff

Just wonder who has decided to Move to Chrome devices for some or all of their district teachers. What issues have you had?  Have you moved any others to Chrome devices? Currently we have smartboards with smart software installed for teachers. What a...

Rick2025 by Contributor
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Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC)

HelloI am kind of curious to find out if other IT administrators have thought or have already enabled evice Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) for there schools? I know that this is not just about enabling it to work that you also have to setup rules f...

Resolved! Graduation banner in Gmail for staff..

This is a first for me. I know sometimes a personal gmail has ads in it's gmail inbox, but this is new to me. We're higher ed and so I'm curious where this banner message setting is set? We don't really use Classroom, and the user who brought this to...

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Googlebooks

There's a lot going on in this announcement!https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/google-unveils-googlebooks-a-new-line-of-ai-native-laptops/

Display assigned user on login screen

Using the AssetID field you can enable this Admin Console device setting to show custom information (student name/email address/etc) on the login screen.AssetID can also be updated directly using the GUIGAM command to bulk updategam csv devices.csv g...

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Request for the EDU Team - Youtube

I posted a few weeks ago about the issue we are having with Youtube. Hopefully someone from the EDU team sees this but we (admins) really need a more effective way of controlling Youtube. Right now (in my district) we're using a combination of Google...

kcalderw by Contributor
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Workspace Report: Chromebook Powerwash / Enroll / De-Enroll

This is one of those things that I feel should be “simple” but I’ve been banging my head against the wall here trying to get it sorted. And Gemini has been acting crazy giving me all sorts of wrong (mostly non-existent) solutions. I’m just trying to ...

Justin_W by Contributor II
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North America IT Admins Feedback Request

My name is Sheethal Shobowale, a UX researcher on the Google for Education team.  I am interested in talking with North America IT Admins working in K12 schools who have a role in decision making around access to Ed tech tools for students, particula...

Kristal by Community Manager
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ELP Admin Community Emilia Romagna v4.0!!!!!!!!!

Grandi novità per la community degli Amministratori di Google Workspace for Education! Abbiamo appena rilasciato la versione 4.0 del nostro portale ELP munity Emilia-Romagna. Abbiamo lavorato duramente per fornirvi uno strumento che semplifichi davv...

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GCDS Filter/Exception to OMIT a Single OU

I'm trying to find the correct way to get this working, and so far I'm not having any luck. Gemini was in full hallucination mode when I asked it. We've got GCDS setup and running on our Windows AD server now for several years.  No big issues.However...

Justin_W by Contributor II
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ระบบ Google Workspace for Education ถูกระงับการใช้งานโดยอัตโนมัติ

ในประเทศของฉัน มีหลายโรงเรียน ระบบ Google Workspace for Education ถูกระงับการใช้งานโดยอัตโนมัติ เหตุผลเพราะ ส่งอีเมลสแปม ฉันได้พยายามติดต่อ พาร์ทเนอร์แต่ก็ไม่สามารถช่วยกู้คืนระบบได้ และได้ติดต่อทาง Google Support ก็ไม่สามารถกู้คืนระบบให้เช่นกัน  ตอนน...

adisak by New Contributor
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Break Glass Account

We have a special "Break Glass" account for our MS Tennant I am wondering if any has created a similar account for Google Admin

mw_slocoe by New Contributor II
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