Google Workspace Changes

Workspace admins can monitor and analyze their organizations’ Keep activity with audit logs and a new API for Keep.

Workspace admins can monitor and analyze their organizations’ Keep activity, starting today, admins will see audit logs for user activity in Google Keep in the Admin console. The API will allow admins and admin-enabled apps to manage Keep access controls for an organization, enabling support for cases such as enterprise data protection.

Gmail exports in Vault now include a new CSV metadata file

Now when you create Gmail exports in Google Vault, you will get a new CSV-formatted file of the export metadata in addition to the XML file you currently receive.

Cloud Search now supports Optical Character Recognition (OCR) based text extraction for PDFs that contain images.

This makes PDFs with images containing text, such as scanned documents, easily searchable by users and improving discoverability of such PDFs.

Restrict Google Drive for desktop to company owned devices, now generally available

You can now restrict the use of Google Drive for desktop to company owned devices. This functionality was previously available in beta.

Google Device Policy app ending support for iOS 11 soon

The Google Device Policy app won’t support mobile devices running iOS version 11 or lower after August 2021.

We’re adding the ability to boost Google Cloud Search results using the Cloud Search Query API for third party data sources.

By providing a wide range of contextual attributes, users will see more tailored results based on inputs such as location, department, and job role.