Google Workspace Updates: 3 new posts

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• New look and feel for the Google Meet Android mobile app
• Create breakout rooms for more engaged distance learning in Google Meet
• Use new APIs to understand and audit group memberships

New look and feel for the Google Meet Android mobile app Posted: 09 Oct 2020 10:37 AM PDT Quick launch summary We're updating the user interface (UI) of the Google Meet Android mobile apps. The new mobile UI will have the same look and feel as that of the meeting experience in the Gmail app and was previously rolled out to the Meet app on iOS. Check out the original announcement for more details on these changes. Rollout pace Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: This feature is fully available on Android now. Availability Available to Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education, Enterprise for Education, and Nonprofits customers as well as users with personal Google Accounts Resources Google Help: Join a video meeting

Create breakout rooms for more engaged distance learning in Google Meet Posted: 09 Oct 2020 10:12 AM PDT What's changing Organizers of Enterprise for Education meetings can now use breakout rooms to divide participants into smaller groups during video calls in Meet. Participants can then easily rejoin the original meeting following their smaller group discussion. This feature will be launching to additional Google Workspace editions later this year. Use breakout rooms in Meet Who's impacted End users Why you'd use it With this highly-requested feature, educators can offer increased engagement in their classes by splitting students up for simultaneous small group discussions or working time. Moderators can also jump between breakout rooms to monitor and participate in discussions. Additional details You can create up to 100 breakout rooms in a call. Call participants will then be randomly and equally distributed across the rooms. You can also manually move people into different rooms. Check out the Help Center for more details. While only event creators can create breakout rooms, anyone with a Google account that is joining from the web or through the Meet app can be a participant. Breakout rooms must be created during a video call on a computer. Getting started Admins: There is no admin control for this feature. End users: This feature will be available by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using breakout rooms in Meet. Rollout pace Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on October 8, 2020 Availability Available to Enterprise for Education customers Not available to Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education, and Nonprofits customers. Stay tuned to the Google Workspace Updates blog for information when this launches to additional customers. Resources Google Help: Use breakout rooms in Google Meet Roadmap This feature was listed as an upcoming release.

Use new APIs to understand and audit group memberships Posted: 09 Oct 2020 09:21 AM PDT What's changing  We're launching new APIs in beta to help better identify, audit, and understand indirect group membership (also known as 'transitive' or 'nested' group membership, see explanation below). The indirect membership visibility, membership hierarchy, and check APIs are part of the Cloud Identity Groups API and enable you to:  Visualize group membership  View all direct and indirect members of a group  View all direct and indirect memberships of a user  Find paths from a user to a group  Identify if an account is a member of a given group or not These APIs are currently available as an open beta, which means you can use it without enrolling in a specific beta program. Use our API documentation to learn more.  Who's impacted  Admins and developers  Why it's important  These features will help provide all of the information you need to create visualization of complex group structures and hierarchies. Having this kind of membership visibility can help you make decisions about who to add to or remove from your groups.  Customers often use groups to manage access to content and resources within their organization. Using 'nested' groups is common as it can decrease duplication, simplify administration, and centralize access management.  However, nested groups can create a complex hierarchy that can make it hard to understand who ultimately has access to content or resources and why they have access. These APIs simplify finding out these answers by making it easier to identify the direct and indirect members for a group. Some use cases include:  A security team can quickly identify all group memberships and associated nested memberships when a bad actor account is identified.  An admin could perform a deep-dive on group structure for audit and compliance. By using the APIs to list and validate direct and indirect members for groups with many nested groups.  A developer could extract group information via the API and feed it to a visualization tool that supports DOT format to make auditing and visualizing complex nested structures easier.  Additional details  Indirect memberships, also known as transitive memberships, come from 'nested' groups. Nested groups refer to situations where groups are members of other groups. As a result, users in the sub-group are members of both groups. For example, group Y is a member of group X. Users in group Y are direct members of group Y and indirect members of group X.  Getting started  Admins and developers: This is available to all users in beta. See our developer documentation for more details on the Cloud Identity Groups API and the Membership Hierarchy and Visibility API Guide.  End users: End users can use the API within the scope they have to create and manage groups. See our developer documentation for more details on how to use the Cloud Identity Groups API.  Rollout pace  This feature is available now for all users in beta.  Availability  Available to Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Enterprise for Education, and Cloud Identity Premium customers  Not available to Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Education, Nonprofits, and Cloud Identity Free customers  Resources  API Documentation: Cloud Identity Groups API overview  API Documentation: Membership Hierarchy and Visibility APIs

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