Can we hide a group from being seen when composing a message?
I know we can hide individual user accounts using directory sharing, but does this option exist for groups, and dynamic groups?
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Jamboard No More
Giveth with extended Chromebook life. Taketh away with the end of Jamboard I am very sad as we use this extensively. Dear Edu Administrator,We’re writing to let you know that we will wind down the Jamboard application next year. From now until Octob...
Resolved! YouTube Premium- purchase page not loading
I have a staff member who wants to purchase YT Premium with her school account.... but anytime she goes to the purchases and membership page, it is blank. The page itself loads, but the purchase interface does not. YouTube is turned on for staff; wha...
In a year, you can't use LSA anymore- which you should have stopped doing a long time ago...
Beginning September 30, 2024: third-party apps that use only a password to access Google Accounts and Google Sync will no longer be supportedYou will have quite some time to reconfigure or replace hardware and software that rely on insecure login.
Windows Endpoint Management - Applocker policies fail to push
I am working with Google on this, but wanted to check here and see if anyone has some insight to my problem.I am attempting to push some Applocker policies to devices, but it fails every time, based on which type I send (MSI, EXE, Script).The script ...
Share Drive Permission Structure
Hey everyone...I started a Feature Requests a while back that's gotten little traction - although a Google insider was the first to respond...and someone recently upvote it as wellI would appreciate you guys upvoting it IF you would find this useful ...
Extended life for Chromebooks.
I read a very interesting article about longer lives for Chromebooks. Ithought this was the most interesting part. Does anyone had any insider info to this?"The change is to take effect in 2024. Chromebooks released in 2021 and thereafter will automa...
Chat Spaces updates and inline threading coming for real now
From the blog: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/09/in-line-threading-transition-update-september-2023.htmlQuite a few features we've been waiting for, and also the final period before the old Topics formatted Spaces are all converted to i...
Gmail Redirect Notices
Good Morning All, has anyone else noticed that we now get sent to a redirect notice page sometimes when clicking links in Gmail. I haven't pinned down what exactly is the criteria to get the notice but I have heard of it happening mostly with the l...
K12 Sysadmin Discord
Just FYI, I know that since the other community was closed down the original post was lost. Lance has approved the posting of the original message but if that has changed please let me know. For those that enjoy a realtime discussion I had set up a D...
Installing Android app on Google Workspace chromebook
We are'nt having much success installing Dolphin Easy reader on Chromebooks. It's installed under Apps, Web and Mobile Apps. Settings for the app are User Access- On for Everyone. Access Method-Available, Allowed All Runtime Permissions. When the use...
Strange DNS error
We've been having a random issue on chromebooks in our district. People will say the internet is not working. What it seems it is on those the DNS servers are gone. A reboot fixes it but we know they were there at logon because the users were in and ...
Using (requiring) Google Authenticator and Sync for "Service Accounts"
What are people's thoughts on this now that Google Auth can sync OTP to multiple devices when signed into the Google account?For example, our environment (as probably every other environment) has these types of "Service Accounts", such as "president@...
API Controls/App Access Control/Apps pending review notifications?
Hello,Is there a way to actually create an email notification (to myself) for when an app gets added to the "apps pending review" area within API controls?
[Rant] Really annoying phishing attempts
I'm not sure what it means overall (probably that these entities have a compromised account) but it's rather annoying when external schools send Google Docs to some of our users like "Document shared with you 'Employee Form.docx'"How do you normally ...
Archiving Classes in Google Classroom with teachers who have left
From our Tech Coach. I never work in or on Classroom things so I have no idea. Is it possible to archive classes as an admin or no?"Archiving Google Classrooms of teachers who are no longer here/active.Old classrooms still show up on our kids' Googl...
Rejected emails
Is there a way to view a list of rejected emails? Other than the message delivery graph for a generic number of emails that are rejected, is there any way to look at a list of them to have better troubleshooting of issues receiving emails?
Google Translate API key
Our SIS apparently doesn't translate parent documents and they've told us we can use either Google or Microsoft API keys for this. From what I'm seeing it's a rather expensive service. Does the Eduaction Plus level of licensing allow for the basic le...
GOOGLE FOR EDUCATION Product Training Series - September to November!
GOOGLE FOR EDUCATIONProduct Training SeriesIn case you missed it, we announced 30+ new features this past June, built to optimize how you teach, learn and manage. To help you digest our latest announcements and revisit existing features, we invite yo...
FOIA Request?
I've been aqsked to do a FOIA requets through all of our Google docs for a specific set of keywords. Is there any way to do this? I've tried Google Vault but since I don't have a limiter like a name I have to select all and it errors out with "Can’t ...
GCPW - Login screen doesnt pop up when clicking button?
Trying GCPW for the first time as standalone. Configured some registry keys. Chrome is installed and has an enrollment token.I see the icon at the login screen of Windows, but clicking the button doesn't do anything.Just wondering if someone ran into...
Resolved! "Sharing is turned off" message in Google Photos
I have one student who is trying to receive photos in Google Photos on her school account from her coach. The coach does not have any issues sharing photos with anyone except this one student. The coach tries to share and it says: When I open Googl...
Is there a way on a chromebook to "clear the ssl State"
We're having an issue for some app and they say thats the solution. The problem is I cannot find this setting on a chromebook. On a windows comuter there is a tab for it. Can this even be done on a chromebook?Error they are gettinggetting an error "E...
Spoofed Email - Phishing reports\Investigation tool
Hello I know I need to get my DMARC setup finished, but in the meantime I have something that has been bothering me. We had someone spoof on our principals email address. It came through with a warning from Google to be wary of this email, but if yo...
Groups - hold my hand and explain to me, please...
I feel like I've seen this posted previously ( heck, maybe even by me years ago), but it's come back up again and I'm looking for help. Google Groups.I'm not sure why it seems as convoluted and clunky as it does. For all intents and purposes, we're r...
Is there a way of preventing Students from emailing certian Staff email groups?
Maybe Users in the studends OU cannot email them etc
[Off topic] Google Authenticator article
Interesting read about how a company believes Google Authenticator Sync was to blame for customer breach, at least in part during their transition to a new SSO platformhttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/retool-blames-breach-on-google-auth...
UBlock Origin
I have installed the UBlock Origin extension for Chrome to deal with ads. Recently it has randomly blocked parts of a webpage in ixl.com. It is an easy fix but do you have any suggestions for UBlock settings or a different app/extension to use?
Canva web site
Hello, does anyone use the Canva software product with students?I have one student who cannot login using the "continue with Google" option. I keep getting an error message stating "That email address is already associated with a Canva account".No o...
Dmarc question
We had an issue this week where some of my staff received an email from "me" that asked them to click on a Google Doc link. They all knew it was fake but we received it several times this week. Spoke with Google support (no suspicious activity on my ...
