What's New in G Suite

Featured Release: Improvements to Email Record Search

Improvements to Gmail's email log search let you
make work easier

What's New in G Suite: Last December, we enabled Gmail administrators to easily assist their users with improved troubleshooting tools. As a follow-up, we released several enhancements to the Email Log Search tool.

Search emails by subject
While the message ID is a great tool for finding the exact message when troubleshooting, users don't always find it convenient to provide this information. Now, email administrators can search by subject and save time when troubleshooting issues for their users.
Email policies are linked in the email log electronic
Now, you'll be able to see which of your email policies triggers each action and you'll have the option to click on the relevant policy link to make changes to it.

The email log shows the delivery status of emails from your domain.
If a message fails to reach its destination or triggers an email routing rule, the status will explain why. For example, the email may have been quarantined as spam or bounced because it couldn't be delivered.

Thank you to all the email administrators who submitted feedback on the Email Log Search.

Learn more about Email Record Search in the Help Center.

Work from anywhere.

The Google Cloud Search app for iOS is now available

News:In February of this year, we introduced Google Cloud Search, a new product that uses artificial intelligence to provide a unified search experience across the entire G Suite suite.
Cloud Search was already available on the web and through the Android app, and now you can also access it from your iOS device. With this release, you can download the Cloud Search app for iOS from the App Store and search your G Suite applications directly from your iPhone or iPad. What's New in G Suite

For more details, see the Help Center: Cloud Search Administrator Help Center| Cloud Search User Help Center

Easy to use.

Discover more about your interests with the Topics feature. Google+

News:Millions of people use Google+ to connect around their interests.
To help you navigate the vast number of collections and communities where people share content, we created a new feature called Topics. With Topics, you'll see a wide stream of collections, communities, and people related to content we think you'll be interested in.

There are already hundreds of themes available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese covering diverse topics such as black and white photography o hiking and camping. Therefore, whether you have recently discovered the wonders of carpenterthat she really likes window box or that he's a fanatic of street photographyGoogle+ will offer you a stream of interesting and exclusive content.
To see the recommended topics, go to the What's New section on the homepage and look for the "Topics to Explore" cards.

For more information, see the Google+ Keyword blog post.

Ready for business

Personalize your site with logos, color combinations, and much more in the new version of Google Sites

News:Since its launch in November 2016, we've continued to add features to the new version of Google Sites, including support for team units, section divisions, subpage creation, and much more. With this release, you can now add a logo and use its colors to further personalize your site. Simply add your desired logo, and we'll intelligently detect the colors so you can use them in your theme. What's New in G Suite
This new feature, which was highly requested by our business users, will help you create professional corporate websites for your organization.

For more information on custom logos and colors, please visit the Help Center.

Track Google+ adoption levels across your organization with new usage metrics in the Admin Console and Reporting API

News: One of the most compelling reasons to adopt Google+ is its ability to connect your staff and encourage engagement. A more engaged workforce not only boosts an organization's capacity for innovation and retention but also improves productivity. Last September, we announced that Google+ became a core service in G Suite, and since then, users have been requesting better reporting on Google+ adoption and engagement within their organizations. What's new in G Suite.
The first measure we decided to take in response is to add new Google+ usage reportsFor businesses, this update is available in the Admin Console and Reporting APIs. With this change, you can now search for the following items:
● active Google+ users per day
● Active Google+ users per week
● active Google+ users per month
● the number of new users
● the number of new publications
● the number of new comments
● the number of new +1s
● the number of posts viewed
● the number of shared posts

We're really excited about this first release of G+ business reporting metrics and look forward to adding even more enhancements, such as user-level reporting, later this year. You can use the Feedback options in the Admin Console to tell us how you're using the metrics and what other data you'd like to see.

Ask the Help Center to learn more about the Global Reports.

Update the Administrator Console to always display the data most recent and remove the “date picker”

News:This release changes the default behavior of the Global Security and Highlights reports in the Admin Console so that they always display the latest available metrics from each data source. Previously, these reports were filtered based on a predetermined earlier date that included the first full set of reports, which could contain outdated metrics even if more recent information was available. Going forward, we'll remove the date picker, always show the latest available metrics, and notify you if they are outdated.

Benefits:

In the Highlights section, you can now see the latest data for each metric.
In the App Usage, Shared Document Link Status, User Status, Security Reports, and Storage sections, the "latest available data for:" of the relevant metric will be displayed when you hover over it.
The symbol “*” may appear next to inactive metric values in each section, indicating that the data may be outdated compared to other metrics. What's New in G Suite
from the same section.

Frequent questions:

Does this change affect the Reporting API?No, this change does not affect the Reporting API. We will notify you if any further changes are implemented to the API.
If the "date selector" is removed, will I lose the ability to review the results for the "last month" in the Highlights report?No, the dropdown menu that allows you to view the “last 7 days,” “last month,” and “last 6 months” (screenshot) will not change its current functionality. Because the data in the Documents reports was often outdated (more than 3 business days), many customers were confused or unaware that the date picker didn't allow them to see more recent data than what the system already contained. This gave them a false sense of control over the data. The new report header explicitly states that it displays the “latest available data,” which more accurately defines the data that is actually available. If desired, administrators can search for data within a specific period (historical data) using the Reports API.

Note: This rollout will be phased in and may not be visible to all G Suite customers until mid-May.

Ask the Help Center for more information.

Enhanced administrator controls for offline access to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files Google on the Web

News: For many G Suite administrators, protecting sensitive and private data is a top priority, as is enabling employees to work anywhere, anytime, with or without an internet connection. With this release, we've made balancing those interests easier for administrators, as the Admin console now offers settings to manage users' offline access to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files.
From now on, administrators will have the following options to control offline access from desktop computers (in the Administrator Console, go to Applications >G Suite > Drive and Docs > Data Access):

Control offline access with device policies: If an administrator selects this option, they must follow certain additional steps to control offline access for their users.
IMPORTANT:
a. If an administrator does not want to enable offline access for ANY of their users, they should select this option and skip the additional steps that are necessary to implement device policies on managed computers.
b. If offline access is previously enabled in an organization and an administrator selects this option, their users will lose offline access until the administrator takes the additional steps to implement the device policies on the managed computers.
Allow users to enable offline access (recommended):If an administrator selects this option, their end users will be able to manually enable offline access from the Documents or Drive settings. Before a user can enable offline access, they will be asked if the computer is trusted and warned not to turn on this setting for any public or shared devices.

If offline access is enabled for all or specific computers, recent Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files from those computers will automatically sync to the device and be available offline. This option improves the user experience in Docs, Sheets, and Slides by allowing employees to continue working uninterrupted even with a weak or poor internet connection. Note that these settings will not apply to Drive files outside of Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
If you previously allowed users to enable Offline Documents, the second setting mentioned [Allow users to enable offline access (recommended)] will be ON when these new settings are implemented. This means your users will continue to have offline access.
If you previously did not allow users to enable Offline Documents, the first misconfiguration mentioned (Control offline access with device policies) will be ON when these new parameters are rolled out. This means your users will not have offline access until you take the additional steps required to implement it.
Remember that these configuration settings only apply to Docs, Sheets, and Slides when used in the Chrome browser from a desktop computer, so they do not affect the Automatic synchronization with iOS and Android devices nor the files synchronized withGoogle Drive for Mac/PC.