E50: 10K Downloads! Start and Join Meetings and Audio Calls from 1:1 Chats in Gmail Mobile, Repeating tasks in Calendar, Meet/Webex Interoperability, Drive Labels, Forms API Beta, and more

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10,000 Downloads, we did it! We have officially passed 10,000 downloads this year since the start of the podcast in January!! Thank you to all our loyal listeners, we appreciate you. We started this just as a fun project to help ourselves and the community keep up with Google Workspace Updates, and now 50 episodes later as we finish up the year I am so grateful for how we have grown! We love hearing from each one of you with your questions, updates, tips when you see new features, and just chatting in our Slack Community. Here's to each and every one of you, and to an amazing year 2! Stay tuned for a video version of the podcast launching on Youtube in January :-D

Published Releases

1. Start and join meetings and audio calls from 1:1 chats using Google Chat in Gmail on mobile

2. Lock audio and video during a Google Meet meeting from iOS devices

3. Set tasks to repeat in Google Calendar

4. New built-in interoperability between Google Meet and Cisco Webex

5. New ways to customize tables in Google Docs

6. Enhanced content classification, governance, and DLP with Google Drive labels

7. Google Forms API now available in open beta

8. More details on migration of existing multiple-location Drive files to shortcuts and other improvements for shortcuts

9. Updated user interface for the App Access Control panel in the Admin console

10. Admins can install Google Workspace Marketplace applications for specific groups

11. Set user language programmatically with the Directory API

12. Manage Gmail IMAP controls by group in the Admin console

13. Quicker access to more Workspace integrations in Google Chat

Other Topics

Drive for Desktop

December 2021 - Bugfix release

Windows and macOS: Version 54.0

Improved in-app notifications to better communicate OS requirement changes and support users in error states.

• Added a notification for Windows users if security update KB4474419 is not installed.

• Added ability for a user to select a different browser than the computer default when authenticating or opening “Learn More” links. For more information on how to do this, visit this article. 

• Additional bug fixes and performance improvements.

• Important: Drive for desktop has ended support for macOS 10.11 and 10.12. Please upgrade to a supported version (10.13 High Sierra or newer) to continue using Drive for Desktop.

Important: Windows 7 users must install Microsoft's security update KB4474419 to remain supported and continue receiving updates.

Question we had last week about moving files across domains on Google Drive.

The advice we gave did not work, but turns out it was because users transferring into drives was not enabled!
Be sure to enable Allow Users to Migrate File to Share Drives setting in Google Workspace Admin Panel.

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