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Azure as IDP for Workspace

Hello How many of you currently use Azure as your IDP for Workspace? How many use Google Login stand alone? Anyone using the new web sign in with Google Federated Azure to SSO with Google Creds into Windows Intune managed laptops or desktops? I am tr...

E8419 by New Contributor III
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Student YouTube Account shut down

We had a student a couple of years ago who was blocked from creating a YouTube account.  They received the message 'Can't create new account because of past account issues'.  After many months trying to get the issue resolved, we just created a new a...

lmcadams by New Contributor II
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Dynamic groups limit increased to 500

From the Workspace Updates weekly recap I know some had quickly reached the old 100 groups quota. Dynamic groups limit increased to 500 We’re increasing the number of dynamic groups a customer can have from 100 to 500. Dynamic groups are defined as g...

Resolved! (Just FYI) Forms problem within Google Classroom

This has been going on for about a week. Students, co-teachers and, in at least one case, the Classroom owner, lose access to Google Forms/Quizzes posted in Google Classroom. Google is aware of the issue. https://support.google.com/s/community/forum/...

Google Group Delayed Messages? Delayed Emails?

Greetings all,Had a bit of an odd situation brought to my attention this morning. Namely our HR person has pointed out that for two of our Google Groups we use for messaging staff there's a slew of pending messages/emails since about Dec 7thish. It's...

MattDPenn by Contributor II
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Newline Interactive Panel Remote

Hi,We have multiple Newline Q Series 86-inch displays in our district. A common problem we have with them is that the remotes that come with it barely work. We have tried changing the batteries and researched a way to re-pair them but no luck so far....

mgoller by New Contributor II
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Chrome Canvas Issue

I was recently notified by a school district that even though they had Chrome Canvas turned off in Additional Services, when a student clicked the icon on the Shelf, it woudl still open.  After some investigation, I was able to tell them that if they...

llennon by Admin Moderator
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Icons missing from Google Slides menus

I have 1 OU where most, but not all, kids are missing the icons on their Google Slide menus. The menu bar is there but has not icons. They are using a slide deck assigned through Google Classroom, and one student shared it with their group members.Ex...

Resolved! Spaces icon in Gmail sidebar

At some point, Google moved the icon for Spaces from the left sidebar in Gmail to the Chat flyout.  Is there any way of getting it back on the sidebar?  Clicking Settings --> Apps in Gmail --> Customize only gives Chat and Meet as options to show on ...

brodgers by New Contributor III
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Passkeys on IOS

Hi all I am hoping someone can help me out here.I installed another google workspace account on my IOS device so that I can test passkeys.When I go to click passkey I get a message - "A Passkey can't be created on this device"It then says Make sure y...

Rick2025 by Contributor
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Drive Sharing Spam Limits

Does anyone know Google's limit on sharing documents in Drive before it triggers Google's spam policy?  Last night we had a teacher attempt to share 18 different spreadsheets, one at a time, with teachers in a neighboring district outside of our doma...

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brodgers by New Contributor III
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Secure LDAP to log into macOS with Google credentials

Good Day Team, I really need some assistance on this one...I would normally do research and test bed this, but we have a pressing situation going on at the moment preventing this... Have any of you been able to successfully implement this?  https://w...

jstaime by New Contributor III
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Your go to DMARC report tools

Hi all, What are your most accurate and reliable DMARC compliance tools?  I'm looking for a service to translate our DMARC aggregate reports and keep ahead of any issues in SPF, DKIM that would prevent our email from being delivered.  TIA!   

jpark by New Contributor III
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Rejected service user - how long before it's allowed again?

We use a tool called Schoolcal to populate teacher Google Calendars with their school schedules from our SIS, and it's worked great for a couple of years. We just began to do the same with student Google Calendars, and the service account we set up t...

tbrass by New Contributor III
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Create Shareable Video Presentations in Google Slides

 Anyone else a bit concerned there is no admin control to this it seems? Going back to Kim's point about things being released without thought for the EDU market. https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/11/create-shareable-video-presentations-in...

dochxp by Contributor
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Bard?

Forgive me if I should know this, but should we be able to access Bard, yet?  Is there something I need to do to enable it?  I do not see it in the lists of Services.  Thanks!

What am I missing? (kiosk mode)

We had a leftover Chromebox that I'm giving to our media center as a student checkout device. Obviously since this will mostly be unsupervised we want them to only get to the school's website and also Follett. I have the * in the settings to block ev...

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kcalderw by Contributor
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Google Takeout this is great news

Dear EDU Admin,We are writing to inform you that the Takeout Transfer your content tool, which allows students and staff to transfer Drive and Gmail files to another Google account, will no longer support shared-with-me file exports. The change will ...

Rick2025 by Contributor
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Installation-time attributes lock error

Have a device that gives the following enrollment error: "the system failed to establish the device installation-time attributes lock."  I can't powerwash it and I've tried recovery about 10 times with various flash drives and consistently run into "...

Enrollment error

 We've been getting more and more of these, devices that appear not enrolled and when it tried to auto re-enroll fails, even the manual enrollment fails with the same error. We can powerwash them and fix them but it seems we've been getting a lot of ...

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Resolved! Active tab auto mute

Is there a way to keep an active tab that is not constantly being engaged with from automatically muting itself?