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RE: "Experimental AI Features"

Posted By Matt Deal 04-01-2024 07:04:33 AM
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This sounds like the same new generative AI settings described in this blog post.https://blog.google/products/chrome/google-chrome-generative-ai-features-january-2024/#organize-tabs Worth calling out from the article, "Because these features are early public experiments, they'll be disabled for enterprise ...

RE: Google Workspace - link sharing

Posted By Matt Deal 01-19-2024 11:14:34 AM
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With one of the recent Drive updates, you can now send users a link for public files:https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive?q=sharedwith:public That link will show all public files the user can see, but it looks like it can be scoped down to just your personal files with this link: https://drive.g ...

RE: Which Google services/APIs can App Passwords be used with?

Posted By Matt Deal 01-10-2024 12:54:02 PM
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That DUO article is over 10 years old, and the Sign in with Google feature has been updated several times. It seems that the authentication and authorization APIs are separate now: https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web/guides/overview If someone has a modern article showing what's currently ...

RE: Sheets/Looker studio question: Bands of usage charting?

Posted By Matt Deal 10-23-2023 06:51:28 AM
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You can add a calculated field to your data source in Looker Studio to do the grouping and sums.https://support.google.com/looker-studio/answer/7569962 In the example below, 'Storage Used (MB)' is the field that contains the total consumption for an account. CASE WHEN Storage Used (MB) = 0 OR Storage ...

RE: Google issue with Delegating account to a Google Group

Posted By Matt Deal 08-02-2023 07:12:05 AM
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We ran into the same issue when the feature was new. Others reported similar findings in the GAM group: https://groups.google.com/g/google-apps-manager/c/m5dC7dz6x08/m/Cgq6UnHIBAAJ Seems you still have to wait 24+ hours for the API to catch up. In our testing, it did seem to work immediately if you ...

RE: Google API Question

Posted By Matt Deal 07-28-2023 12:02:13 PM
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Here's the generic impersonation implementation we use for python. There's other stuff in the library, so you probably don't need all of these imports. import os.path import pickle import socket import sys import time import google.auth import googleapiclient import httplib2 from google.auth.transport.requests ...

RE: Deleting massive MyDrives without deleting the rest of the user's account

Posted By Matt Deal 07-06-2023 06:40:23 AM
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You can have them delete the files themselves by adding them to a TO_BE_DELETED folder or similar, moving files/folders into it, and then sending this folder to the trash. That will move the folder and all of its contents to trash, and similar to John's suggestion allow almost 2 months of recovery. ...

RE: Invoicing for additional storage

Posted By Matt Deal 06-08-2023 08:45:26 AM
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Since the extra storage goes in the pool, there's really no way to guarantee that any of that storage is reserved specifically for their drive(s). How are you explaining this concept to the user? Are you setting the quotas on your other users/drives low enough that even if they were all at 100% the ...

RE: Google Pay--is it inexplicably on for anyone else?

Posted By Matt Deal 10-25-2022 10:32:54 AM
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We have the service off, and we are seeing similar behavior. Colab Pro purchases used to show an error message that the Payments service was not enabled, but now you are immediately prompted for card information. Play store seems to be similar, but I can't remember exactly how it looked in the past. ...

RE: Google Maps Support

Posted By Matt Deal 08-30-2022 07:56:59 AM
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You can try getting your My Business account bulk verified. This makes it easier to claim locations and seems to make your requested changes happen faster on items you don't own. https://support.google.com/business/answer/4490296?hl=en -- Matt DealGoogle AdministratorOffice of Information TechnologyNorth ...

RE: Handling personal calendars

Posted By Matt Deal 06-29-2022 07:21:55 AM
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If the secondary calendar is used to represent a room or an item that can be checked out, maybe you can have them convert to using a Resource calendar. These are owned by the domain like a Shared Drive and can be hidden from other users to an extent, and there's even a workflow for having one or more ...

RE: For the programmers in the audience: non-core tools and impersonating users via API using domain-wide delegation?

Posted By Matt Deal 06-06-2022 02:30:33 PM
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Possible, yes. Useful, not always. You can perform the impersonation, and access the API as the user, but for many consumer apps, the APIs don't expose methods that would help manage the service at scale. Photos for example will let you list albums, but you can't delete anything through the API.htt ...

RE: GMail Compliance/DLP

Posted By Matt Deal 02-10-2022 12:44:27 PM
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I can't speak to the current state of the Gmail DLP, but when I tested it several years ago, the SSN detection was very aggressive. Almost any 9 digit number with any hint of 'social' or 'tax' in context would trigger with high probability. Things like Student/Employee ID numbers, Tax IDs for businesses, ...

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