Google Workspace Changes

Hangouts Meet now supports up to 50 participants for G Suite Enterprise users.

Google has increased the participant limit for Hangouts Meet meetings to 50 for users of the G Suite Enterprise edition. This limit supports a mixture of video and dial-in entry points, enabling larger global collaborations.

New Admin console setting to control who can move content out of Team Drives.

Google is introducing a new sharing setting in the Admin console that allows G Suite administrators to control who can remove content from their domain's Team Drives to prevent data from leaving the organization. This setting restricts moving content from a domain's Team Drive or a user's My Drive to an external domain, with three available options: 'Anyone', 'No one', or 'Only users in this domain'.

Easily add and manage site-wide footers in the new Google Sites.

Google Sites now allows users to create a consistent footer across all pages of a website from a single location. By clicking 'Add Footer' at the bottom of a page, the footer is applied site-wide. Users can also hide the footer on specific pages or create custom sections at the bottom of individual pages for unique content.

Google is deprecating and retiring the Realtime API.

Google announced the deprecation of the Realtime API in favor of newer cloud storage solutions like Google Cloud SQL, Firebase Realtime Database, and Google Cloud Firestore. Starting November 28, 2017, the API is no longer available for new projects. Existing applications will continue to work until December 11, 2018, when documents become read-only, and the API will be completely shut down on January 15, 2019, although a JSON export mechanism will remain available.

Easily copy and paste Hangouts Meet conference details across Google Calendar events.

Google Calendar now allows users to copy and paste Hangouts Meet conference codes or full URLs across different events. This is particularly useful for scheduling multiple events that require the same conference link, such as separate events for interviewers and candidates or back-to-back meetings, ensuring all participants join the same video conference. This feature is available in the new Calendar for web.