Google Workspace Wednesday

Issue #36 / 31-JAN-24

Improving the Google Calendar appointment scheduling experience with new features

Last year, Google introduced new appointment scheduling features to help you set more relevant meeting durations and tailor your calendar view to match your preferences. To further improve upon the current appointment scheduling experience, Google is adding the options to add up to 20 co-hosts to your appointment schedule during the setup process, create appointment schedules on secondary calendars, expand the delegate access functionality to appointment scheduling, and decide whether or not you want to check the availability of calendars added to the appointment schedule.

Improving space creation in Google Chat

In order to prevent duplicate space names in Google Chat, you will no longer be able to create a space within your company’s domain if the space name already exists. Similar to the experience in Gmail and Google Groups, if a space name already exists, an error message will appear. The same will happen if a user tries to edit the name of a space to another name that already exists. You will also see an updated user interface when creating a new space in Chat. In addition to easily determining access settings, you can now designate the space for Collaboration or Announcements.

Local data storage exports your organization's Workspace data into the geographic location of your choice, launching in beta

Google is introducing Google Workspace’s new feature, local data storage. The update allows admins to export their organization's Workspace data into their own Google Cloud Storage (GCS) bucket located in a geographic location of their choice to meet their data sovereignty, compliance, and data archival needs. This feature is available for Google Workspace Enterprise Plus customers with the Assured Controls add-on. Eligible Google Workspace customers can apply for the beta.