Google Workspace Wednesday

Issue #34 / 17-JAN-24

Use comments & action items on your client-side encrypted Google Docs

You can now collaborate with others on client-side encrypted Google Docs to add, edit, reply, filter, or delete comments. You can also assign action items to yourself or others. This added functionality helps bring parity to unencrypted docs while also ensuring your data is behind encryption keys you control, including the identity provider used to access those keys. This new feature is available as an open beta, which means you can use it without enrolling in a specific beta program.

Easily share Google Drive files to Google Calendar meeting attendees

Since introducing the new sharing dialog for Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms in 2020, Google has made several enhancements to make sharing effortless across Workspace. Now, users have the option to share any file with all meeting participants on a Google Calendar invite via the sharing dialog within a file. With this new feature, users can easily share files with meeting attendees before a meeting, ensuring everyone is prepared and able to collaborate on the same file.

Extending Trusted Types to Gmail

Last year, Google improved the client-side security of Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, Drawings, Drive, and Calendar with Trusted Types. This browser-based runtime feature reduces the possibility of DOM XSS, one of the most critical threats to web security. Recently, Google announced the expansion of Trusted Types to Gmail. This will provide a defense against DOM XSS and further enhance Google’s advanced data protection controls to keep users and data safe across more of the apps they use everyday.

Google Meet is now available on Logitech Android appliances

Google Meet is now supported on Logitech’s Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini Android-based appliances for collaboration rooms and spaces of just about any size. After initial setup, admins can easily enroll, manage, and monitor these devices using the Google admin console. Google Meet on Logitech Android-based devices is supported on CollabOS v1.11 as a video conferencing provider.

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