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Digital Signage/Slides

Greetings all,Our front office wants to have some digital signage playing on a small TV. I know Chrome Sign Builder is being depreciated in Jan 2025 so for the moment I'm not looking at that.The first thing I tried was publishing a Google Slide to th...

MattDPenn by Contributor II
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Resolved! Gmail>Compliance>Append footer setting

I have a few questions about this setting.  If enabled, does it get added to EVERY outgoing email message?  Even REPLIES to incoming messages?  Or is it really only for newly created outbound messages?Also, I had an administrator ask me an interestin...

Dynamic Groups?

I'm trying to see if its possible with the dynamic groups settings to have it populate for example a group that is this criteria Members of Google Group A AND lets say building location. I was looking tom see if I can type a CEL query but cannot find...

wi-fi toggle in chromeOS

Oh how I wish Google would allow us to administratively disable a student's ability to turn OFF the wi-fi toggle on their chromebooks.

Email Groups - Would love someone to hold my hand...

I'm not sure why, but every time I've dabbled in the world of Google Groups/Email groups/Groups for Workspace etc etc, I've always felt like Google made it waay more complicated than it need be.  And as such, I'm never fully convinced I've got it set...

Justin_W by Contributor II
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Unused Gemini for Workspace EDU Licenses?

I have one user in my domain (me) who has a subscription to the BUSINESS edition of Gemini for Google Workspace. I purchased a license this winter to test out Google's AI offerings ahead of their eventual announcement of Gemini for EDU (happened yest...

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Jrsowash by Contributor
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Resolved! Report of users who opened a specific email

Is there an easy way to get a nice layout (as easy as email address, and status of opening the email) for us to generate/pull to indicate who opened an email?We'll be sending an email to employees in regards to cyber security training, and need to re...

Server Host Location - Canada

Hello! I am new to the admin side of Google and my school is considering roll out for next school year. I will be tasked with the admin of our Google workspace, but I have more experience from the teacher side. Can someone help with a school concern ...

joshhart by New Contributor
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Google Operations (email 202405-20 19:37 (CEST / UTC+2))

I may not have been the only who received this email.I only had a single affected user in my list.If you have many users, you may perhaps use gam to help your users out. Key detailsCreated May 20, 2024, 07:37 PMTitle‪Important information about Googl...

admin training?

I have a friend who is looking to become a Google Admin.  Does anyone have suggestions for training options?   Not sure it matters but we are in the US.  Thanks! 

GAM question

When we get some spam messages, I use GAM to remove them from teacher/staff email inboxes. I'm doing this by running the following command: gam all users delete messages query rfc822msgid:%id% doit (there's a prompt to enter the messageID). I can see...

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kcalderw by Contributor
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Issue Joining GEAGH

My colleague has been attempting to join this community.After applying and 3 or so correspondences explaining their role and intended hub they are being continually told that they are unable to join (another community name).Something may be wrong wit...

Compliance rule that doesn't capture internal senders

I have a compliance rule that quarantines any message that comes from  drive-shares-dm-noreply@google.com in an attempt to capture phishing messages before they get to recipients. We'd like to alter this rule to that internal sharing is not quarantin...

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Resolved! GAM assistance please

Hello all!Can anyone refresh me on the proper GAM command line syntax for suspending (or deleting) user accounts using a CSV file of email addresses as the source?Many thanks!

ddelboccio by Contributor III
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Resolved! Shared Docs Between Specific students

Okay, so please don't crucify me, lol. I know in many peopes opinion (including mine) this is mostly a discipline issue that should be resolved by admin. Never the less, despite that, I am asking this amazing and very awesome community, if there is a...

Issues with printing emojis in Google Docs

So we are having a "fun"/headache document a teacher made as a template for our students. When we try to print this document on paper it shows the orange and green emojis for the actual headers but these don't show up in the Table of contents when pr...

Resolved! Chromebook Repair Screen?

Greetings everyone,This morning I encountered a student's chromebook that had gone to a OS "Chromebook Repair" screen of some sort that looked like was designed for testing components. I didn't have a chance to play around with it as I wanted to get ...

MattDPenn by Contributor II
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Restrict sensitive financial sheet - see body

---Before anyone chimes in, I know this is most likely a human-related fix, not a technological one, but I must ask because I was told to find out ---We're a Google Edu Fundamentals workspaceSo Administration will be sending a highly confidential fin...

Resolved! Tablas en documentos de Google

Saludos.Una docente me comentaba lo ocurrido con un documento compartido con todos los docentes de su curso donde, en extricto rigor deben en una tabla completar datos, una columna para cada asignatura. El problema fue que una docente creo mas column...

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YERKO by Contributor
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Resolved! Chrome OS Flex Error

Hi everyone!We have been progressively loading Chrome OS Flex onto our old devices. Most are working well but a few are having the attached issue. Has anyone come across this error and identified an easy fix?Thanks!Dave

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dbugden by New Contributor III
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Verifica account

Buongiorno, utilizziamo la piattaforma Google nella nostra scuola dal lontano 2007.Troviamo davvero frustrante dover gestire per gli allievi la verifica dell'account quando utilizzano i PC della scuola.A loro non è consentito l'uso di telefoni in cla...

Giuliano by New Contributor
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ChromeOS Mirrored AND Extended Displays

Our K-12 teaching staff using Windows OS based laptops frequently use a multi-screen configuration where the laptop display and a connected projector are mirrored while a stand-alone monitor on their desk has an extended desktop. This configuration e...

Allow Android Apps for School Phones

We have some school owned phones and have set these up with generic accounts for each phone. Both phones and these generic accounts are in the same OU. We do not have any licenses so have set Universal Settings > General > Mobile Management to Custom...

Drive - Can you please upvote my request

We have two orgsStaff\Suspended and  Students\SuspendedWe would like to block internal sharing the same way we block external sharing. With a checkboxI chatted with google support and they suggested I do a feature request since it is not possible rig...

Rick2025 by Contributor
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DNSFilter users - malware block?

A couple of days ago, DNSFilter started throwing up a block page when I attempted to get to the main platform URL. Googleforedcommunity.com was categorized as a Malware site, and I had to whitelist it in order to get back in. I put in a Domain report...