S2E20: GSuite Legacy Free Edition is here to stay! YES, that includes Gmail at your custom domain! 🎉 Improved Working location UI in Calendar, Search Meet Content in Drive, and more

Google Workspace Recap

It’s official! Great news for all GSuite Legacy Free Edition folks, Google is letting us keep our accounts! The last few months have been an emotional roller coaster, and I think Google owes us some anti stress swag or something because wow was this tough. I am going to make TShirts that say I survived the GSuite Legacy Shutdown and you can all buy them to commemorate the occasion. Google officially announced today that they are allowing us to keep using our GSuite Legacy Free accounts for personal non commercial use, including Gmail and yes, your custom domain. Many of you who followed todays news as it was breaking already sent in a bunch of questions and we are working to get those answered, but for tonight, we will talk about what we know so far.

Silent Releases

• New idle status in Google Chat
• Changes to the default Host Management controls in Google Meet for users with personal accounts

Published Releases

1. Improved user interface for sharing your working location in Google Calendar
2. Easily search for Google Meet content in Google Drive
3. Import existing custom themes to new Google Sites
4. Create Spaces and Add Members with the Google Chat API, available in Developer Preview
5. Require email verification to book appointments in Google Calendar
6. New delegated VirusTotal privilege in the Alert Center
7. Set up SSO profiles for multiple third-party identity providers with the Multi-IdP SSO beta launch

Other Topics

• Customer Connect Live event, “Google Drive Sharing - Product Q&A” with Google Product Manager, Ned Lindau. Register here!
  • Wednesday, 5/25 from 8:30-9:30am PST
• Workspace Roadmap feedback Form sent to me by a Googler to get eyes on and feedback
• We are going to skip IO Workspace Announcements for tonight… Too much to talk about for GSuite Free
• G Suite Free

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