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Contracted outside organizations needing an internal access

Hello was wondering if anyone could give me some advice as to their policies and procedures with outside organizations such as the YMCA and others.In the past the YMCA has been given a standard YMCA@domain.com address and then that email is shared be...

E8419 by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Additional Admin Features for Third Party App Access Controls

I was asked to share this post from this particular team:   Following customer feedback, we have added the following additional functionality following our recent enhancements to third party applications  Admins can now disable users designated as ...

Kristal by Community Manager
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Chromebooks shutting down on lid close

I'm reaching out to see if anyone else has seen this problem at the start of the School year. It seems like it's gotten less but I am still having teachers place tickets in saying that their student Chromebooks are shutting down and forcing the stude...

kircher by New Contributor
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Force deployed extensions not deploying

We have some users not getting force deployed extensions. They are on Windows devices logged into them via GCPW and signed into chrome, Chrome is fully updated. I can see in chrome://poliicy it shows the IDs for the for deployed ones.  I can have tha...

New user change

So it seems Google changed something we're seeing when new users login setup MFA etc all that works fine. If they then login to another device they get a promt to Hit OK or authorize on that original device. They can scroll down and continue but they...

Under 18 3rd Party settings applying to Over 18?

Has anyone else been seeing this? Had a teacher unable to access their mail via their iphone ever since my coworker and I finished going through the Under 18 3rd Party settings the other day. When I added the relevant apps to said teacher's OU it fin...

MattDPenn by Contributor II
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screen locking/force logouts

I think this was discussed in the past, but not since moving to the new Forum.   I am wondering what everyone is doing regarding session timeouts on devices and applications (SIS, Computers, etc) when it comes to inactivity.  What is a reasonable or ...

panderson by Contributor III
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Securly bypass - new or old?

Not sure if this is a new Securly bypass or an old one I missed.So I noticed a few kids visiting this site: securlypass.com and other variations.Once on the site, they drag the button to a new tab, and then they have a switch to turn on & off the Sec...

kuhnd by New Contributor II
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2-step verification question

Here's my situation and then my question.Small parochial school and I'm the Google admin person and full time librarian with teaching load. So I'm not the best at understanding some of the admin stuff. We have some "generic" user accounts that more t...

2-Step verification?

So we have the accounts for staff setup to require MFA. I think we give them a grace perion of a few days etc. But if they don't unlike every other service that would just force them at that login but Google prevents them from loggin in at all. So th...

Silly Google Vault service question

Our Google Workspace was set up years before I got here and I'm wondering about this probably dumb question: the Vault services is turned on for Everyone at the root level of our Workspace... If I turn that off, will that affect retention at all (see...

GCPW & 2SV long login time after verification?

This is specific to Windows devices using GCPW and 2SV. Does anyone else notice a lengthy period of time for the login process? We are seeing varying times but the word I am getting on average time is 5 minutes. That just seems like a really long tim...

Dave_Burek by New Contributor III
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Resolved! Third-party apps automatically configured/unconfigured

I am really struggling with the third-party apps settings.  I opened a support ticket with Google 3 weeks ago and we've had a lot of back and forth, but my issue is still unresolved. Our "configured apps" list started with almost 700 apps.  There wer...

JenWerder by New Contributor
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Students browser auto launching site

We have the students logins set to open to a specific page and for the most part it works. We're seeing on a few that does work and then after the login finishes it changes page to another site crazygames.com which our content filter blocks. I'm sure...

Apps Script collaboration

All right stopCollaborate and listenYoda is back with a brand-new inventionSomething grabs hold of me tightlyFlow like a harpoon daily and nightlyWill it ever stop?Yo, I don't know.OK, enough of that. I was thinking of collaborating with everyone on ...

GuruGabe1 by New Contributor II
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YouTube Approve Button (Missing)

I'm looking to test using the YouTube Approve button, but can't get it to be shown.I've recently checked the Special Approvers: Google Classroom Teachers setting, but it's been a few hours.I've identified this video that is not viewable by users with...

Email, but no Login?

I have a situation where a student who recently left and I failed to close their account in a timely manner. That part is on me. However, my question to the group is...If the there is an email that came from an account, shouldn't there be some other ...

jsb_tech by New Contributor III
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Cloud backup services?

For years, I have recommended Spanning Backup as a cloud backup service.  Since Spanning was assimilated by the Kaseya collective, the product and our service from them has suffered. We're now looking for non-Kaseya cloud backup services. (Backupify ...

BrianGray by New Contributor II
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Google Print Preview locks up Chrome

Anyone else see this now or in the past? So far I've only had one student and one staff member see this issue, but both this week. One is on a Chromebook and one on a Windows laptop. When they go to print preview it hangs at loading preview then all ...

kcalderw by Contributor
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Context Aware Access - know issue with some ISPs

Just flagging an know issue with Context Aware access. We restrict access to the UK using context aware access. Some ISP issue what presents as a UK IP - but does not validate as being definitely UK in the Google backend and therefore get flagged and...

rdnixon by Contributor
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Dynamic groups

So I created my first dynamic group in workspace.  I set the "who can post" access setting to nobody (unchecked every box) thinking that would prevent sending messages to the group.I then sent a message to the group from my email and it got delivered...