Google Workspace Changes

Google Drive Inventory Reporting now includes more detailed permission information for files and folders in My Drive.

Google Drive Inventory Reporting has been enhanced to include more detailed permission information for files and folders in My Drive. Admins can now access schema fields concerning permission details for both shared drive and My Drive files, including whether the permission is inherited, the permission type, and the role.

Google Drive Inventory Reporting now includes more detailed permission information for files and folders in My Drive.

Drive Inventory Reporting has been enhanced to include detailed permission information for files and folders in My Drive, such as whether the permission is inherited, the permission type, and the primary role for the user.

Google Drive Inventory Reporting now includes detailed permission information for My Drive files and folders.

Google has enhanced Drive Inventory Reporting to provide admins with richer insights into file permissions for both shared drives and My Drive. New schema fields have been added to the BigQuery reports, including 'Inherited' (a boolean indicating if the permission is inherited), 'Permission Type', and 'Role', providing a more comprehensive and unified view of permissions across the Drive environment.

Google Drive now supports video transcripts

Drive users can now view and search transcripts for their videos. The transcript appears in a sidebar next to the video player and highlights the currently spoken text.

Drive users can now view and search transcripts for their videos, improving accessibility and navigation.

Drive users can now view and search transcripts for their videos. The transcript appears in a sidebar next to the video player and highlights the currently spoken text, making it easy to find specific moments and follow along with the content.

Google Drive now allows users to view and search transcripts for videos.

Google Drive has introduced video transcripts, which appear in a sidebar next to the video player and highlight currently spoken text. This feature enables users to easily search for specific moments and navigate through video content more efficiently, provided that the video has captions enabled.

Updating the access experience in Google Drive

Users can restrict access to their My Drive folders using the two options outlined below, and by 2026, we will simplify and align the restricted access principles for My Drive and shared drives.

general availability of this feature in shared drives and My Drive, which means that users can restrict access to their My Drive folders

For shared drives, folders with limited access allow users to organize files by project, in a single shared drive or shared folder, while ensuring that sensitive information is only accessible to the right team members.

Updates to Drive's public API to support expansive access behavior.

Google is introducing improvements to the Drive public API to make it easier for developers to adopt new access changes. Developers are recommended to opt into the expansive access API behavior in My Drive before February 2026, when these changes will be enforced for all users, to ensure their applications continue to function correctly.

General availability of limited access folders in My Drive and shared drives.

Google Drive now allows shared drive managers and My Drive owners to restrict folder access to specific users, ensuring sensitive information is only accessible to the right team members. This feature allows for better organization of files by project within a single shared drive. By 2026, Google will further simplify and align restricted access principles across both My Drive and shared drives, moving toward a consistent 'limited access folder' setting.

Admins to transfer OneDrive data to Google Drive

You can migrate the files of up to 100 users at a time, including the files corresponding access permissions with shared members.