Google makes premium G Suite features temporarily free of charge
Google temporarily gives users free access to G Suite Enterprise features. With this, it wants to support companies and schools in working from home, now that several organisations decide to let their staff and students work from home because of the coronavirus.
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Google blocks ‘less secure apps’ for G Suite from June 2020
Apps that ask for your G Suite account username and password, to sign in directly to your G Suite-account, will no longer be able to access G Suite starting from February 15th, 2021. Google considers apps that use this login method to be 'less secure apps' and will only allow logins with an OAuth t... Read more
G Suite users can use Hangouts for another year.
G Suite users can continue to use Hangouts at least until June next year. Google is postponing the end of the chat service, which was scheduled for early October, by almost a year.
Google actually wants users to migrate to Hangouts Chat (chat and collaboration) and Hangouts Meet (videoconferencin... Read more
Google introduces shortcuts for files in Google Drive
Google Drive has a shortcut function to access files similar to shortcuts used in Windows. Until now, users who wanted to create a shortcut to a file in a shared folder had to make a copy of the file, so the versions did not match anymore.
Google reports that the new feature works exactly like a ... Read more
Administrators can offer G Suite users more security
Google will make it possible for system administrators working with G Suite to give users extra security. The system administrators can decide for themselves for whom this is needed. The measure is aimed at users who are more at risk of being hacked, for example high-ranking workers.
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OpenText and Google expand cloud collaboration
OpenText and Google Cloud broaden their collaboration with a new deal. The collaboration should allow the enterprise customers of the two companies to derive more value from their disaggregated data.
OpenText sells software for document management, record management, e-mail management and web conten... Read more
Google makes security G Suite stronger with new tools for Gmail
Google has provided G Suite with new security tools for Gmail. The tools are designed for use by IT administrators. These include a new sandbox feature, better protection against phishing and malware, and new controls to prevent employees from forwarding, copying, downloading or printing messages.
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Google Drive test offline save PDF and Office files
A new beta version of Google's G Suite allows users to store PDFs, Office documents and other files that are not from Google's own services offline in Drive. Offline saving was already possible with Docs, Sheets and Slides.
You can save offline by enabling the option 'Available offline', which can ... Read more
Google makes migration to G Suite easier for Box users
Google makes it easier for Box cloud users to transfer their files to G Suite. The company does this with its own migration service, which it announced earlier this year and made available as a beta.
With G Suite Migrate it is now possible to migrate more easily from Box to Google's service, writes... Read more
Google saved some G Suite passwords as plaintext
Google accidentally stored some of the passwords of G Suite users as plaintext. The error that caused this hit, according to the internet giant, a "small percentage of G Suite users", reports Wired. The functions with the error are now disabled.
Google normally stores passwords on its servers in a ... Read more