Google Workspace User Guide: A practical guide to using Google Workspace apps efficiently while integrating them with your data

✍ Scribed by Balaji Iyer

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Explore the suite of apps that enhance productivity and promote efficient collaboration in your business

Key Features

• Set up your own project in Google Workspace and improve your ability to interact with different services
• Understand how a combination of options can help businesses audit their data to be highly secure
• Deploy Google Workspace, configure users, and migrate data using Google Workspace

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Manage and configure users in your organization's Workspace account
• Protect email messages from phishing attacks
• Explore how to restrict or allow certain Marketplace apps for your users
• Manage all endpoints connecting to Google Workspace
• Understand the differences between Marketplace apps and add-ons that access Drive data
• Manage devices to keep your organization's data secure
• Migrate to Google Workspace from existing enterprise collaboration tools

Who this book is for

This book is for admins as well as home users, business users, and power users looking to improve their efficiency while using Google Workspace. Basic knowledge of using Google Workspace services is assumed.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing Google Workspace
2. Configuring Users and Apps
3. Application Security
4. Automated Security Auditing
5. Beyond Workspace
6. Designing Custom Applications
7. Data Migration

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Foreword
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Getting Started – Google Workspace
Chapter 1: Introducing Google Workspace
The evolution of Google Workspace
Gmail
Google Docs and Google Drive
Google Apps for Business
G Suite to Google Workspace
Carbon-neutral data centers
Google Workspace – what's included?
Additional Google services in Google Workspace
Google Workspace licensing models
Google Workspace Education editions
Google Workspace Business editions
Google Workspace Enterprise editions
Choosing the right edition
Domain host versus Google Workspace
What is a domain?
What is the DNS?
Secondary domains versus domain aliases
Summary
Chapter 2: Configuring Users and Apps
Google Cloud Identity and admin roles
Cloud Identity features
Cloud Identity editions
Configuring OUs in Cloud Identity
Configuring users in Cloud Identity
Adding users to Cloud Identity
Deleting users
Using Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS)
GCDS configurations
Managing licenses
How to enable automatic license assignment?
How to manually assign licenses to users?
Configuring applications in Workspace
Google Workspace core services
Google additional services
Enabling Gmail
Sharing resources via Calendar
Summary
Part 2: Data Security
Chapter 3: Application Security
Context-Aware Access using Cloud Identity
Configuring Context-Aware Access
End-user security
Password monitoring
2-step verification
Single sign-on
Password vaulted apps
Secure LDAP
Google apps security
Gmail
Google Drive
Calendar
Google Chat
Google Meet
Sites
Vault
Other services
Marketplace apps
Summary
Chapter 4: Automated Security Auditing
Google Workspace security center
Security Health
Security dashboard
Security investigation tool
Data loss prevention
Creating a rule from a template
Alert center
Segregation of data by regions
Endpoint management
Mobile management
Automated device management
Reports
Summary
Part 3: Data Integrations
Chapter 5: Beyond Workspace
Google Classroom
Enabling Google Classroom
Managing Google Classroom settings
Grades and rosters
Student unenrollment
Google workspace Marketplace apps
Managing Marketplace apps
Add-ons for Google Workspace services
Access control for third-party applications
Google Assistant for Google Workspace
Nest Hub
Enabling the Search and Assistant service
Using third-party clients
Enabling access for mail clients
Using Google Workspace Sync for Microsoft Outlook (GWSMO)
Accessibility for users
Summary
Chapter 6: Designing Custom Applications
Apps Script
Hello World!
Code editor
Macros
Creating a custom menu item
Interactions with the Gmail and Sheets APIs
Using Google Forms with Apps Script
Adding Apps Script for Google Docs
Creating a web application using Apps Script
Apps Script security and best practices
AppSheet
Enabling AppSheet
Build an app using AppSheet
Summary
Part 4: Migrating Data
Chapter 7: Data Migration
Data transfers within Google Workspace
User life cycle changes
Suspending users
Archiving users
Transferring user data
Transferring Google Drive content
Google Takeout
Data migration from external sources
Data migration service
Migrating a large amount of user data
Preparing the Workspace domain
Google Workspace Migration for Microsoft Exchange
Google Workspace Migrate (Beta)
Summary
Business Case Studies
Case study #1
Case study #2
Index
About Packt
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