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Google Workspace User Guide

By : Balaji Iyer
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Google Workspace User Guide

By: Balaji Iyer

Overview of this book

Google Workspace has evolved from individual Google services to a suite of apps that improve productivity and promote efficient collaboration in an enterprise organization. This book takes you through the evolution of Google Workspace, features included in each Workspace edition, and various core services, such as Cloud Identity, Gmail, and Calendar. You’ll explore the functionality of each configuration, which will help you make informed decisions for your organization. Later chapters will show you how to implement security configurations that are available at different layers of Workspace and also how Workspace meets essential enterprise compliance needs. You’ll gain a high-level overview of the core services available in Google Workspace, including Google Apps Script, AppSheet, and Google Cloud Platform. Finally, you’ll explore the different tools Google offers when you’re adopting Google Cloud and migrating your data from legacy mail servers or on-premises applications over to cloud servers. By the end of this Google Workspace book, you’ll be able to successfully deploy Google Workspace, configure users, and migrate data, thereby helping with cloud adoption.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started – Google Workspace
4
Part 2: Data Security
7
Part 3: Data Integrations
9
Chapter 6: Designing Custom Applications
10
Part 4: Migrating Data

Chapter 5: Beyond Workspace

In the previous chapters, we extensively covered Google Workspace's core services and several add-on services in depth. This chapter will shed light on some of the non-core services and configuration options that extend Google Workspace's functionality via third-party apps and help reach a global audience of different categories and sizes.

Google is committed to making the world a better place, and true to its commitment, Google Workspace has products that target the younger generation and help them learn and comprehend the world around them. Google Classroom is one such product that integrates several core Workspace services into a seamlessly integrated platform, to enable student and teacher communication and collaboration.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Google Classroom
  • Google Marketplace apps and add-ons
  • Google Assistant for Google Workspace
  • Using third-party clients
  • Accessibility settings...