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Beta del Sito Web Hub per gli Admin Italiani

https://er.elpadmin.comSito web ufficiale ELP Admin Community Emilia Romagna (Italy)Come Google Education Leader Program Facilitator e Super Admin Google Workspace che gestisce quotidianamente diverse piattaforme, so bene quanto sia sfidante per noi ...

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Added another sender to my NeverSpam list

In Gmail Compliance & Spam settings you can exclude certain addresses from the spam filter.In my opinion, it's a good idea to do so for the official sender addresses from Google services, so they always reach their recipients. Google, of course, make...

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WorkspaceAudit.com

I've been contacted by someone from AppsEDU inviting us to trial workspaceaudit.com. It looks interesting, but its a new product (AppsEDU has been rebranded from Appsevents, which has been a Google Edu partner (apparently) for 14 years prior).Has any...

Olger by New Contributor III
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Hello Australian Admins

We are looking forward to seeing you in the Sydney Google office on Thursday or online if you can't make it in person We will have our customer engineer , Richard Johnson in the session to present to you and take part in our circle discussions See yo...

Limit 3rd Party Google Meet Bot Participants

We're looking to limit the use of some 3rd party meeting assistants that don't meet our data privacy standards.Typically these services have a bot join the meeting.Our staff are able to have outside Meet participants and we don't want to move to a do...

External Drive file shares and security

With the ever evolving phishing campaigns that go around, I was wondering what (if anything) admins are doing to combat the "Item shared with you:" emails that users get.  Clearly you can't revoke the access.  You could use an internet filter to bloc...

dhalvorsen by New Contributor II
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Images and Videos not loading in Docs or Slides

Has anyone else encountered this issue? A number of our teachers added images and videos to their slides and docs. In the place of the video or the image there is an exlamation point. We tried clearing the cache and history, accessing the slide or do...

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msteward by New Contributor II
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Removing Phishing Shared Doc

Greetings all,I managed to catch a email sent to many of my staff early but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to remove shared docs from users Drives in Google Admin. I believe I've correctly deleted the original emails from affected users v...

MattDPenn by Contributor II
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Disabling of third party access

We're finally getting around to turning off third party apps in our GW. We're starting with restricting Drive (already completed). We have ~50 trusted apps so they retained access to Drive (we're higher ed btw). My understanding is that once we restr...

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uBlock Origin alternative

I read in the K12sysadmin group on Reddit that uBlock Origin is going away. I implemented it a while back when several of you recommended it for K12 security. Now that it may be going away, what alternatives would this group suggest? 

Resolved! Restrict Students to School Device Only?

Hello,I am trying to understand if our small school should permit students to login from home on their own devices.At school they are 1to1 but they do not take them home. They are 7-11 years old.As the admin, I would like to turn off access from outs...

Meghan by New Contributor III
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Passkey

Nella vostra scuola avete attivato la funzionalità passkey per fare l'accesso agli utenti della vostra scuola? Può essere utile per la comunità scolastica?

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Drive file permissions and audit check

I've got higher-ups looking for answers to an issue: An external user (parent of student)  has requested access to view an internal user's Doc (using the formal "request access" link for Docs).This doc is Not meant for external viewing, and permissio...

Justin_W by Contributor II
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DLP - Drive Document Access

I'm having a hard time finding a "correct" way to tackle this: We use DLP for various things here in Google Workspace, and I'll get notifications from time to time related to this.  The thing is, if I get notification it's saying who the file owner/s...

Justin_W by Contributor II
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[Question] turn off google authenticator sync

Does having a user turn off the "sync with google account" in Google Authenticator remove the codes from that device?We just implemented/changed to the new SAML Profile that Google is recommending which apparently signs people out (happened to myself...

New Phishing Scheme

I have yet to see this in our environment but wanted to share.Phishers Exploit Google Sites and DKIM Replay to Send Signed Emails, Steal Credentialshttps://thehackernews.com/2025/04/phishers-exploit-google-sites-and-dkim.html

External Files Shared to Students

So I've just discovered that while we have emails from external sources, outside of a small whitelist, going to our students blocked evidently shared files will potentially breeze right past that. One, the share email will go right through because th...

MattDPenn by Contributor II
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Blocking Access and Emails from Certain Countries

Greetings all,We're starting to see an uptick in phishing attempts and we know the ip address of some of the attempts are coming directly from a certain country (coughrussiacough). Is pretty much all I can do is block the ip ranges associated with th...

MattDPenn by Contributor II
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Protecting Accounts for young learners

This is related to this post: https://www.googleforeducommunity.com/t5/Discussion/Context-Aware-Access-to-User-Account/td-p/140696We're a K12 school, and I'm keen to learn how others protect accounts for the early learners (Prep to Year 3 mostly). I ...

Olger by New Contributor III
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