Google Workspace Wednesday

Issue #86 / 05-FEB-25

Additional improvements to everyday actions in Google Sheets

Last year, Google doubled the calculation speed in Google Sheets, which improves the speed of actions like formulas, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and more, regardless of your file size. Now, Google is announcing additional improvements available for everyday actions in Sheets. Pasting data is now up to 50% faster when you’re pasting from one spreadsheet to another. Filter conditions can now be set up to 50% faster than before, and spreadsheets load existing data up to 30% faster.

Now generally available: improved syncing experience between Google Calendar and third-party calendars

In June 2024, Google introduced an improved email notification experience between Google Calendar and third-party calendar services, like Outlook, via beta. Now, this update is generally available. Specifically, it addresses customer feedback regarding the syncing experience from Calendar to third-party calendars. The syncing experience is now more reliable and gives recipients an effective way to filter out Calendar emails that may have cluttered their inbox.

Layout selection now available between Google Meet hardware and Zoom Rooms calls

Google is expanding interoperability support between Google Meet devices and Zoom Rooms to include support for changing the meeting layout. This gives you the flexibility to choose a layout that is best suited to improve focus and engagement during your meetings. If you’re joining a Google Meet call from Zoom Rooms, you can select between the tiled view, speaker spotlight view, or sidebar view. If you’re joining Zoom Meetings from a Google Meet hardware device, you can choose between the gallery or speaker view.

Better understand app access with the new Access Evaluation log event

Google is introducing a new log event, Access Evaluation, which will help admins better understand how security policies affect their users' access to OAuth apps. This includes settings and policies such as API controls, endpoint management configurations, domain wide delegation and more. The log contains information on the specific policies applied, when access was granted and the reasoning. Admins can use this information to review their security policies and revise them as needed to protect the sharing of Workspace data with users' apps.

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