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What do you need to thrive in your leadership role?

If Google were to design a program to expand leadership for current leaders, what would be some areas of focus?  Would you please provide your thoughts by taking this 3 minute brief survey?  Thank you so much!!! Kristal

Kristal by Community Manager
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Captive Portal Issues

Hey all,When we powerwash Chromebooks we connect them to our Guest WiFi so they can get policies and move to our managed network. After the powerwash is complete we select our WiFi and the device sits on the "Getting the device ready..." screen for t...

Google Form ?

Is there any way of finding out who created or owns a Google form all we have is the URL. I tried using the gibbrish ID and searching the drive logs for that

Students adding a printer from home

We have OS settings turned off for students (for obvious reasons). Is there a way to allow them to add a home printer without opening up settings in general? Is there a way to whitelist the printer setting? We have the printer set to allow them to ad...

Google Cache ?

This is sort of a general? To which there be no answer but in the years since we've switched to google and all the apps we use that people tend to call with issues about the solution many many times is to clear the browser cache. I'll be our HD gets ...

Students Accessing Others' Work

The students can see each other's work but cannot edit it. Is there a setting in the Admin Console that would prevent this?   Thank you!

Metz49 by New Contributor II
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Resolved! Group Policy for Third Party Access

Is there a way to set third party app access by a group rather than an OU?  If not, has anyone found a work-around? I have an elite group of students that need access to a particular app, but the problem is they are in OUs that also designate specifi...

TBarnett by New Contributor
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Call for GEAG Participation - Panel on Cyber Security

Hey GEAG! It’s time to tap into our worldwide community for a panel event. The topic? Cybersecurity. Let’s gather a few of you Google Admins with different experiences and perspectives on the topic and share your thoughts about what the current strug...

chand by Admin Moderator
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OneDrive Integration into Chromebook Files App?

Hi, I've just updated to 129 on my Chromebook and looking through the new features advertised is "OneDrive directly from your files app....!" How do I enable it in my tennant, i've had it for a while on my personal Chromebook. Is it the "OneDrive" An...

JL by New Contributor
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Shared drive usage

We have over the years accumulated a large number of shared drives. We suspect many may not be used anymore but is there any way to tell? For example can I query drives to see if anyone has accessed any of the files in lets say a year? We're looking ...

Resolved! Managed Guest Session - Site Setting: Audio - Allow

 I just set up a Managed Guest Session for our SmartPass Digital Hall Pass Chromebook kiosks. I set desktop notifications for the site to always allow, but since the Sound Site Setting is Automatic instead of Allow, the audio notifications are hit or...

Docking station recommendations

Hello,Our school district has been transitioning to docking stations in preparation for Windows 11. We purchased Club3D docks through a vendor and they have begun to fail just a little over a year after purchase. I am wondering if anybody has any rec...

mgoller by New Contributor II
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Email sandbox feature

If an incoming email with an infected attachment is caught by the sandbox features, what happens to that message?I know the assumption is the message is blocked.But is the message rejected back to the sender?Does the intended recipient receive a mess...

Transfer Stand Alone Upgrade

Hello!I am struggling to enroll new devices.  We bought some chromebooks 311 without bundled education upgrade.I have a bunch of C302s I need to deprovision.Can I, and how can I, transfer the standalone education upgrade on the C302s to the 311s?Hopi...

Meghan by New Contributor III
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Students finding wireless password

I've been working on a re-work of our wireless networks with building in segmentation.  I created new SSIDs with new passwords and on the first day of them being live, I've been told that staff shared the staff wifi password to students despite every...

dhalvorsen by New Contributor II
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Document Tabs

I have seen a couple of videos that show we can now create document tabs in the paid EDU workspace. We are paying for the cadillac version and yet no Doc Tabs yet. Has anyone else got them yet? Does anyone know the rollout schedule? I can't seem to f...

atruger8 by New Contributor II
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Compliance rule to block ZIP file attachments

Looking for opinions here please...........I've had a longstanding attachment compliance rule in place for Gmail to send any messages with a ZIP file attachment to quarantine for review.I did this in the name of blocking email attachment viruses.I se...

Printing labels via Papercut

I'm at a loss on this one. We use Papercut mobility print on chromebooks. Apparently some time this summer now when people print the same labels from same app its not aligned right. Its cutting off a bit at the bottom of the label. There are no optio...

iPads unable to play video in Drive app

All,We're starting to get reports from our iPad users that video playback from the Drive app no longer works.Error says Unsupported File TypeiPad 9 with iOS 17.6.1Google Drive 4.2437.11602 .mov and .mp4 videosAnyone else seeing this? Suggestions?

tbrass by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Gemini Data Privacy Contradiction

Hi all!I came across what appears to be a contradiction in Google's data privacy policy regrarding Gemini and Workspace Edu.  During a webinar, Google stated Gemini's chatbot could be used by anyone on your edu domain, and they would be afforded free...

jpark by New Contributor III
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website to block

Hey everybody.  Here is a nice (creepy) website to add to your URL blocking method of choice for student devices:https://neal.fun/eyechat 

Reminder for the start of the school year - Admin Discord

I had posted this in our old admin board but since we switched over please let me know if this is not allowed and I will remove it. A few years ago some of us created a Discord channel for K12 Sysadmins. Over the summer we decided to expand that to T...

kcalderw by Contributor
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