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ELP Admin Community Emilia Romagna v4.0!!!!!!!!!

Grandi novità per la community degli Amministratori di Google Workspace for Education! Abbiamo appena rilasciato la versione 4.0 del nostro portale ELP munity Emilia-Romagna. Abbiamo lavorato duramente per fornirvi uno strumento che semplifichi davv...

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GCDS Filter/Exception to OMIT a Single OU

I'm trying to find the correct way to get this working, and so far I'm not having any luck. Gemini was in full hallucination mode when I asked it. We've got GCDS setup and running on our Windows AD server now for several years.  No big issues.However...

Justin_W by Contributor II
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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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Students ability to clear history on managed devices

We currently have our devices set up for students that they cannot clear their browser history. We have just discovered there is a loophole in this setting. If a student signs into their school account on their phone, they can clear their browsing hi...

tneuser by New Contributor III
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Fundamentals License Change

If you check your admin console, billing, subscriptions, you will probably see that the new license structure has been pushed out.  The notification was sent out in November of 2024 and last night seemed to be a pretty large rollout.Remember that eve...

llennon by Admin Moderator
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Mild, but Oddball, Google Classroom Invite Issue

Greetings all,Was curious whether anyone is aware of changes to how user invites, particularly students, has changed in the last few days? I was just contacted by a teacher claiming that when they were trying to add a new student into their Google Cl...

MattDPenn by Contributor II
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cloud identity help understanding use case

Our current setup is: HCM/SIS feeds AD, AD then syncs to our SSO platform (Onelogin) and also our provisioning tool creates their Google accounts (may look more into GCDS depending on this discussion). Users in the SSO platform have RBAC to SAML apps...

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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Assigning Minecraft Licenses

 Wondering if anyone has set up automated Minecraft license assigning? We have our Google Workspace set up as IdP for Microsoft Entra (which works fine) and students (and staff) can login to Microsoft using their Google Accounts. Any student that has...

Olger by New Contributor III
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Resolved! [Question] User name fields

We have instances of deadnames coming back when we use GCDS. We're wondering how we can sync the following properly so that the persons deadname does not come back while using GCDS to sync attributes:first name (ad=givenName)last name (ad=sn)display ...

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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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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How to hide certain staff info from the contact directory

Good morning. I have been asked to post a question to the group. We are needing to sync our staff's employee ID number from active directory to Google Admin. We need to do this because of another application we use that we want to sync staff info fro...

WPS-G by New Contributor
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ChromeOS Certified Administrator course

Hi all,I want to let you know about a bootcamp being offered by Matt Snoxell from the APAC Google ChromeOS Enterprise team. Matt is planning to run a virtual admin bootcamp towards the end of Q3, start of Q4.  It is aimed primarily at folk in the APA...

chrisb by Staff
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Viewing Specifics of when User Logged into Chromebook

Greetings all,I wanted to get a sanity check. Is there a way to get more information about when a specific user logged into a given chromebook than the Recent Users field of a device? We have a student who is trying to avoid filters placed on them by...

MattDPenn by Contributor II
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Edu On Air: Monthly Webinar Series

 I'm thrilled to share that Google for Education is launching a brand-new, monthly online webinar series designed for IT Leaders: Edu on Air  Each month, we'll host a webinar diving deep into our cutting-edge tools and features, including exciting up...

Kristal by Community Manager
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Blocking Chrome settings

So I have been going over our blocked settings policy. Currently all OS and Chrome settings are blocked via URLs. I am testing using the Disabled system features option instead which seems to work fine too. The problem we run into is Bluetooth. Is th...

kcalderw by Contributor
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Good practice structure for a school

Hi all,Joanne here from Dubai. New to the role. Does anyone have a suggested 'best practice' structure for a school's Google environment? I need to reengineer ours so interested to know how schools have their set up.Thanks

Managing User Generated YouTube Content?

Does anyone know of any way for us to enumerate or control the Youtube content created by our users in our Google Workspace tennant?Can we control them in any way, so if we spot some content that we don't want there, remove it?Or look at when somethi...

JL by New Contributor
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