Questions tagged [google-workspace]
Use for questions about using Google apps features that are specific for Google Workspace accounts. Google Workspace historically was named Google Apps, G Suite (aka Google Suite). Questions about administering services for corporate enviroments and those that require advanced specilized knowledge on email sytems, domain name services, required for professional systems administrators are off-topic. For those questions try Server Fault.
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How can I exclude a specific folder from Google Drive search results?
I want to search for let's say *.doc from all my files in Google Drive but I want to exclude results from a certain folder let's say old docs. What do I type in?
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Unable to operate script in my work computer and home computer, on other computers it works fine
I have a Google Apps Script project that I have used for the past few months (successfully) and everything has worked just fine. A few weeks ago, I started getting the "Unable to load files" error ...
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Change Google login account in Google foobar question task
I have linked my company Google suite email account with the Google foobar question task. Now I will be leaving the company in a few days after which they will deactivate my account.
How can I change ...
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Why doesn't G Suite Admin password reset option appear?
I am providing support to a small organisation that had G Suite set up for them a few years ago by a company that has now folded.
They have given me the account name for the G Suite domain admin, but ...
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Office 365 forwarding email to gmail goes to spam because fails DMARC
With Office 365 set to forward emails to Google Apps (i.e. Gmail), the forwarded messages are going to spam because according to the Gmail interface, they have "a from address in example.com but has ...
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Gmail 'send mail as' setup always fails using an alias from a "separate" Gmail account
I have a Google Workspace account with a single email address: [email protected]. I enabled POP access in the Workspace account, and also configured an "alternate email" (alias): alternate@...
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Open all Google Docs in view mode by default regardless of each doc's settings?
Is there a way to set my Google [Workspace] account so that any time I open a link someone has sent me to a Google Doc (or Sheet, Slides, etc.), it always opens in View mode, regardless of the ...
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Add more Google Apps to gmail side panel
I mean to add more Google Apps to show when I click on the Waffle icon in the right side panel of Gmail.
In particular, I want to add Groups.
I know I can do two other things:
The "+" ...
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Can I, How do I, stop Chrome from asking to switch/continue Google Profiles when I use another account on Gmail or GDocs
When I login to another of my Google Accounts, Chrome Asks if I want to switch/continue in that profile. I want to be able to stop this notification behaviour, because the pop up is annoying.
I do ...
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Allow employees to login after "Why you need your phone"
Our employee is unable to access their Gmail account. I'm going to retype this whole error from a screenshot.
We detected an unusual sign-in attempt. To make sure that someone else isn't trying to ...
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Google Calendar: deleting alert from recurring event invite doesn't stick
I have various recurring events I have been invited to on Google Calendar (GSuite). Some of them are not actually meetings or I am not interested in being alerted for them, yet they come preconfigured ...
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Google Calendar - How to Get Multi-Day Events to Show as Blocks of Time
I'm adding multiple blocks of non all-day, multi-day, events for my upcoming Code Fellows classes.
I've found that Google Calendar, in both the week and day view, has no way apparent way of showing ...
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Sync Google Docs Action Items with Google Tasks
In Google Docs (as well as Sheets and Slides), one can assign an "action item" (e.g. some to-do) to another person by marking him/her in a comment (link).
Also, there is the "Google Tasks" feature ...
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Filter email based on Gmail plus operator, with wildcard
Due to some programming integration tests I've setup to run often, I'm receiving emails to my gmail with a plus address like so:
matt+unittest_1
matt+unittest_2
matt+unittest_3
etc.
I would like ...
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Make a private reply without "Private message regarding" in the subject line
I am trying to set up a Google Groups collaborative inbox (I have Google Apps for work) to handle emails from the public to members of a team. While playing around, I found that when I select "reply ...
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How to export comments from Google Docs
Is there a way to easily export comments (and ideally, status, context, author, date, etc) from a Google Docs file into a spreadsheet, without scripting/coding?
I'm sure there are programmatic ways to ...
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How to be the owner of all files created by someone else on my Google Drive company account
I have multiple freelancers working on my company and using our Google Drive. But every time that I stop working with someone and I revoke their access to my Google Drive, I lose the files they ...
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Gmail deliveredto operator not working for email alias addresses in Google Workspace
I am using Gmail on Google Workspace and I have multiple aliases setup on my root Gmail account (e.g. [email protected]) such as:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Automatically reject conflicting Google Calendar invites
How do I auto-decline invites that are overlapping with the events I have already accepted invite for?
Apparently, Google stopped supporting this feature and the Labs features is not even visible to ...
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Ask Google to remove email ALIAS (from a domain I own) from a GMAIL account
Facts:
I have a Google Apps account with my domain: example.com
I created a user for my domain: [email protected]
Alice registers [email protected] as an email alias for her gmail account: alice@...
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How to Google Takeout my Shared Drives? (in 2020)
I have spent days migrating all our files into shared drives in Google Drive. After doubling the cost of our service to allow shared drives.
Now how do I download all those files as part of Google ...
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G Suite selective email migration from Gmail
I am interested in partially migrating emails from my personal google account to my new G Suite account. I want to migrate all emails containing a certain label and no others.
I know there is an ...
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Is there a shortcut for Edit Master in Google Slides?
Is there any shortcut (keyboard or otherwise) for quickly editing a slide master in G-suite?
In Powerpoint one can shift-click the view buttons which works well. I'm looking for something similar for ...
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How to forward non-user emails to external gmail?
I have a contractor outside of my company that I'd like to forward emails to using an e-mail from my domain, but I don't want to create and pay for a user account under my G Suite domain.
Therefore:
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Publish Bitbucket pipeline artifacts to a Google Drive
I am managing some documents in Git version control, hosted on Bitbucket.
Upon a push to Bitbucket, I would like the latest version of these documents to be visible to a select group of people.
It ...
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Make Drive resources available to all users in organization
My company uses G Suite Basic. I have a handful of company resources that I'd like to make visible and available to everyone in the company via their Drive - things like employee handbook, benefits ...
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Making a group email list for multiple org members to get emails from external sources?
In the past it was pretty straight forward to make a group with proper permissions without worry in Google Apps' Groups Admin function. I frequently used it to create a recipient group for services ...
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Unable to find and locate the "Third-party data sources card"
I am trying to create my own custom Google Cloud Search and following this documentation. I need to add a data source through the G Suite Admin console. I login to my Admin console I go through the ...
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Google Groups sends valid emails to spam / moderation from within our domain
How can I adjust the settings so all the users within our google groups domain have their messages approved to go through?
Recently it seems the spam/moderation filter has been much more aggressive, ...
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Can I import a calendar and have that count toward my free / busy
In Google Calendar you can import other calendars into your display. For example, I imported my personal calendar into my work calendar.
However, items from imported calendars are not taken into ...
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Replacing the catch-all feature of g-suite gmail with a whitelist
I use about 100-150 email addresses using the catch-all feature of gmail in g-suite.
When I sign up for a new service I make up an email address for that service so they don't have my real email ...
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How to Create a Global Calendar in Google Apps
How can we make a calendar global in Google Apps? I want the calendar to appear in the "My Calendars" box when I type the name of the calendar.
So far what I have done is to create the calendar and ...
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Create a new user with limited access to internal user calendars
We are using Google Apps with Gmail and Calendar. The default settings for calendar visibility is set to shared, all internal users can see each other.
The task is to create a new user with limited ...
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Google Photos Search vs Drive Search results difference
I've just encountered a weird behavior on the Google photos search.
I have a Google account which I'm using only for storing photos.
All the photos are uploaded via the Google photos app (so there ...
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Is there a way to view or download Google Hangouts Call History?
The Android Google Hangouts Dialer app is very limited when it comes to VoIP call history. It only shows the last 100 (approx) calls, even though Google keeps a complete history on their servers. ...
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Google Chat (Hangouts) not showing company users in search?
When logged into Gmail and using Chat, if I have a coworker named Bob Example and I started typing Bob in the search in the lower left for chat (or type Bob and click the magnifying glass,) Bob ...
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How to match width of a group of columns in a Google Docs table
I'd like to make a group of columns in a table in Google Docs. Is there any way to do this? Something like the Distribute Columns Equally menu item in Microsoft Word?
So far the best I've been able ...
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Can't use domain alias to log in to Google apps legacy free edition
I have been using Google apps free legacy edition for my domain (say- abc.com) last few years. Now, I want to add some of my colleagues to this service with a new domain as alias (xyz.com). After ...
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Gmail E-Mail forwarding add sender as CC
So our company is using Google Apps (or Gmail) to handle our emails. I've created an user with the address [email protected] and added an email forwarding to [email protected] to automatically create ...
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Open Recent instead of My Drive in Google Drive
Is it posible to open Google Drive on Recent items instead of My Drive?
I saw the website opens the url https://drive.google.com/drive/#my-drive, and what I need is to open https://drive.google.com/...
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Share all photos from Android phone with company Circle
We use Google Apps and a bunch of Android phones. We do civil construction work and my people are always on the ground taking pictures with their Android phones. The phones are only for work-related ...
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Import messages from Exchange to Google Groups Collaborative Inbox
At the moment we are an Exchange house and wanting to move to Google Apps. We currently have a shared inbox in Exchange that we want to move to Google's Groups Collaborative Inbox but there only seems ...
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Is there a way to reschedule a meeting that I didn't set in Google apps calendar?
When I get invited to a meeting, I want to be able to reschedule the meeting but the calendar tells me
You are about to make changes that will only be reflected on calendar
[email protected]
From ...
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One Google Apps account not receiving email, all other are
The main account on my Google Apps account is not receiving email, and all the others are. I sent test emails from an external account and they were received by all other accounts except for one. Any ...
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How does email routing work when deleting a Google Apps domain?
Our business is changing domain names and needs to migrate from one Google Apps for Business account to another. I've taken care of the data migration, but now we need to redirect mail from the old ...
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G Suite 2fa disable SMS
Is there any way to disable SMS 2fa for G Suite as a company-wide policy? I can see that you can enforce "security key" only, but we want to keep the other options available too, like Google ...
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Is it possible to download a Google data archive for an account on a Google Apps domain?
Google now provides the capability to download an archive of one's Gmail and other data. This appears to be available for my @gmail.com account, but I also have a domain being managed by Google Apps. ...
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How to Purchase Additional Drive Storage with Legacy GSuite
My group uses a Legacy Free Addition of G Suite (which continues to be offered indefinitely, whether used by a single person, a couple people, a family, a non-profit, or any other group).
We purchased ...
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