Important Upcoming Google Chat Features & Changes
Google Chat will be receiving two major (and positive!) updates that will affect your day-to-day use of the service, including a fresh coat of paint that will bring a more modernized visual experience and the conversion of older threading-style of Google Chat Spaces by “topic” to in-line threading. Spaces threaded by “topic” will be converted […]
Kicking off a Digital Spring Cleaning
Spring has sprung, and you know what that means… Spring cleaning! Just like your own home, your VCU Google Workspace account may begin to accumulate extra items, such as mail and files in Drive, that you might not need anymore and can be trashed, or might be good to put away in an appropriate place […]
Welcome to 2023: Feature Updates, Upcoming Storage Changes, and more!
We’re excited to start off the year with a quick look at a brief recap of the bigger updates from last year, some upcoming feature updates, a mention of important upcoming changes to storage, and finally a mention of our training opportunities and the new IT Status page. Also keep an eye out next week […]
Google Updates Recap for May 9 to June 3, 2022
In this Recap, we have several quality-of-life features we think will be very useful and are looking forward to, as well as some important news regarding Google’s consumer “Duo” service merging with Google Meet. If you’d like to subscribe to the blog to be notified of the latest posts, get started by clicking the “Follow” […]
Additional Gmail security settings being turned on for VCU Google accounts
Collaboration Services will be enabling several advanced security settings in Gmail for all VCU Google Workspace accounts to enhance security and keep users safe. These security settings will include protection from suspicious email attachments and add transparency about following shortened links and links to untrusted domains. With these changes, mail will continue to be delivered, […]
Google Updates Recap for April 11 to May 6, 2022
In this update recap, we’re excited to highlight the new “table templates,” “dropdown chips,” and a new menu bar layout for Google Docs. You can now also start or join a Google Meet directly from within a Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides file, and set up host controls and assign hosts on a calendar event […]
Google Updates Recap for January 10 to March 4, 2022
In this post, we have some of the latest updates including those for the upcoming Spaces experience in Google Chat and a look at the new design for Gmail for those with Google Chat enabled. We also will be talking about the future of Google Currents regarding an announcement from Google about its sunsetting. Gmail […]
Drive File Stream and Backup & Sync are now Google Drive for Desktop
We’re glad to announce that Backup & Sync and previously Google Drive File Stream are now a singular application: Google Drive for Desktop. In a previous blog post, we announced Google Drive File Stream was renamed to Drive for Desktop, but was not changed functionally. However, now the functionality within Backup & Sync, which was […]
Important security update for Drive
Google is implementing a major security update for Google Drive file sharing links which increases the security of those files. The update will change the links (URLs) for some Drive files shared in 2017 or earlier. This will impact individuals accessing these files that are linked or embedded on websites or posted elsewhere. On or […]
Google Updates Recap for April 26 to May 28, 2021
As our team ties up the finishing touches for our Domain Merge project, we’re glad to provide the feature updates from April 26 to May 28, 2021. We are also excited for a new feature set coined as the “smart canvas” set of features that was announced at the Google I/O event on May 18, […]