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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)
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Part 1: Getting Started – Google Workspace
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Part 2: Data Security
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Part 3: Data Integrations
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Chapter 6: Designing Custom Applications
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Part 4: Migrating Data

Summary

This chapter provided you with a glimpse of how Google helps students and educational institutions with Google Classroom. Although various learning management and collaboration platforms exist, no one comes closer to offering services like Google at a global scale. More interestingly, to make Google Classroom more accessible, Google gives away its basic version for free, which is sufficient for a lot of educational institutions. While there are some negative reviews about the simplicity of the Google Classroom UI and its workflow, Classroom continues to evolve and will reshape the educational landscape across the globe.

We also saw how Google Workspace services can be extended beyond the services offered by Google, a true differentiator in the market with these Marketplace apps and add-on functionalities. Google Assistant and its integration with Google Workspace turns mundane activities such as setting up a calendar into a delight with voice inputs. Personalized search...