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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Educational institutions are now required to annually review and re-confirm access to Google Additional Services for users under 18. Admins will be prompted in Admin Console to review additional Google services that are turned on in your institutions...
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...
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?
You should all have received a Google Operations alert in Alert Center, which reads as follows.Dear Edu Administrator,Educational institutions are now required to annually review and re-confirm access to Google Additional Services for users under 18....
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...
I'm wanting to limit certain users to only be able to email within domain -- but also allow them to receive things like classroom notifications, docs shares, etc.I remember there used to be a list of require Google domains. Is there anything like tha...
Hey everybody. Here is a nice (creepy) website to add to your URL blocking method of choice for student devices:https://neal.fun/eyechat
Has anyone seen a change in the Insert-Video Youtube Video with Google Slides over the past day or week? We have seen it working fine this morning as building slides were prepared, then as of two hours ago it stopped working throwing up an error of:...
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...
Hi all,We are having a weird issue with Google Calendar. In the admin console, all OUs are set to have internal and external sharing options showing "only free/busy." However, when anyone attempts to "search for people" within GCalendar in an attempt...
Good afternoon!We finally made the transition from Zoom to Google Meet. I know it is possible to create multiple breakout rooms and assign guests to a room.Is it possible to create multiple breakout rooms and allow the guests to select which room th...
I'm currently on ChromeOS 129 (beta) and I'm missing the multiple calendar view in the quick settings panel. From everything I've read, it should be able to show multiple calendars now (not just my primary calendar). I was of the understanding that...
Hi everyone!We are having issues with one particular student Chromebook where the keyboard language is appearing in any text entry box. We have hard reset the Chromebook, updated the Chromebook, and powerwashed the Chromebook with a USB stick and thr...
Happy start of school all! Are we having fun yet? hehe Within the last hour, we have many chrome devices district wide that are unable to connect to our Wifi. I'm just trying to determine if this is a more global issue or something specific to us. We...
I'm coming back to this and we don't use any IMAP etc but does anyone know if this will affect email on copiers for scan to email we use google for mail relay or the GCPW sign in for our Windows computers?Access to all such less secure apps will be ...
(Note, I am not a superadmin in my domain, so I do not have access to these settings.)It used to be that to allow access to a Google for Education domain it could only be to another GFE domain and both domains had to mutually allowlist each other. "G...
We have been getting an number of reports over the last week or so about staff having this error. Is anyone else seeing this?
Hello fellow Google Admins. In case you are not aware there is a massive issue with the Read & Write extension and Google Docs. It's serious for us as this extension is auto installed on 20,000+ devices. Basically makes Google Docs unusable and ma...
Hi,We use a separate domain for our students, our staff domain is whitelisted and teachers have no problem creating classes. Our students cannot see an email icon for the teacher. They can see an email icon for other students in their class.This seem...
We use an extension based content filter on the chromebooks for the users. it works but we've found a flaw and was just asking around to see if there was any solution. Anyway we had some Kiosk apps various state testing ones etc. Well in them since t...
We've recently started using Cast Moderator in classrooms and conference rooms. In the Admin Console, we set a policy to require students to use a code every time they connect, to ensure that they can't cast without permission or physical presence in...
I'm familiar in the sense that a group would supersede the OU in which the user(s) are in. However, we have a specific configuration that we're looking to accomplish.student ou in adstudent ou in googlestudent ou in google authenticates to our sso pl...
