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Hands-On G Suite for Administrators

By : Cesar Anton Dorantes
Book Image

Hands-On G Suite for Administrators

By: Cesar Anton Dorantes

Overview of this book

Hands-On G Suite for Administrators is a comprehensive hands-on guide to G Suite Administration that will prepare you with all you need to know to become a certified G Suite Administrator, ready to handle all the business scales, from a small office to a large enterprise. You will start by learning the main features, tools, and services from G Suite for Business and then, you will explore all it has to offer and the best practices, so you can make the most out of it. We will explore G Suite tools in depth so you and your team get everything you need -combination of tools, settings and practices- to succeed in an intuitive, safe and collaborative way. While learning G Suite tools you will also learn how to use Google Sites and App Maker, to create from your corporate site to internal tools, live reports that seamlessly integrate with live documents, and advanced Google Services. Finally, you will learn how to set up, analyze and enforce Security, Privacy for your business and how to efficiently troubleshoot a wide variety of issues.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: G Suite for Business
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Section 2: G Suite with Google Domains
10
Section 3: Security, Privacy, and Troubleshooting
12
Section 4: Apps and Sites

Managing alerts

Reports are an amazing tool for identifying trends, and searching logs allows you to trace specific events, but they both depend on you spending time finding relevant information.

G Suite Alerts provide email notifications when certain events take place. As an administrator, you can choose for which events you wish to be notified immediately.

The alert screen has three columns:

  • Alert name: This is a short description of the event.
  • Email recipients: Which group will be notified of this event.
  • Status: Indicates whether the event is enabled or disabled. To change the status of an event, just click on the toggle slider:

At the moment of writing this, there are 21 different alerts to choose from. Let's explore them so you can choose which ones you need on your domains:

  • Drive settings changed: Sends a message when an administrator changes the default Drive...