Google Workspace Wednesday

Issue #72 / 16-OCT-24

Google Drive inventory reporting is now generally available

Earlier this year, Google launched Google Drive inventory reporting in beta. Now, this feature is generally available. Compared to APIs, exporting inventory reports to BigQuery empowers admins to understand their data more deeply, providing insights into how their data is classified, accessed, and used. Understanding these metrics can help admins to identify security risks, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, and more.

Now generally available: Migrate users’ emails from Google Workspace, Gmail and other IMAP enabled mail servers

In March 2024, Google launched an open beta for the ability to migrate your users’ email data from Google Workspace, Gmail, or IMAP enabled mail servers to another Google Workspace account. This includes the ability to run delta migrations, to smartly bring over newly generated or modified emails from the source without duplicating previously migrated content. Beginning now, this data migration experience is now generally available, helping admins migrate email data in a more secure, reliable, and efficient manner.

Import data from Meta Workplace to Google Chat using CloudFuze

Google recently introduced a new migration solution from Workspace partner CloudFuze that enables customers to import data from Slack into Google Chat. Google is announcing an additional solution from CloudFuze that enables companies using Workplace for Meta to migrate their data to Chat. With this integration, you can move existing communities, groups, individual members, and admins into Chat spaces. In addition, all of the community posts, attachments, reactions, and more will be moved into Chat with the original historical timestamps to ensure that your knowledge repository is available for users in Chat.

Improve Google Meet livestreaming experience with more insight on eCDN performance

In July 2024, Google introduced Enterprise Content Delivery Network (eCDN) support for Meet, which helps reduce live streaming bandwidth consumption to a fraction of the traffic volume. Now, Google is announcing enhancements that will give admins greater insight to better optimize their eCDN configuration. eCDN is deployed according to settings and rules configured by admins to control and optimize peering across their network topology. Admins can now turn on client debug logs in the Admin console to get detailed information and better understand how configurations affect the way clients use eCDN in different parts of their private network.

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