What does it take to make an update to Google Workspace and push it out to millions of users? We asked this question and more to our first ever podcast guest, Emre Kanlikilicer, who leads an engineering group at Google focused on Google Workspace. In fact, 3 of this week's new feature updates, Emre and his team were responsible for! We asked, and Emre delivered giving us a peek behind the curtain to learn some of the process a new update has to go through, sometimes in the works for up to a year or more. This is definitely an episode you don't want to miss!

Of course, it wouldn't be a Google Workspace Recap episode if we didn't give you this week's updates, and not only did we discuss them as usual, Emre provided some insights as well for the 3 his team worked on. Here are our updates for this week:

Last week’s updates

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - January 15, 2021

Our Google Sheet tracking every blog post Google posts

Google Workspace Updates - What's new in G Suite

Silent Releases

These releases come out silently within the end of week, Weekly Recap blog post. Have a look each Friday at workspaceupdates.googleblog.com

• Google Voice now available in Germany (we missed this one last week)

• Smart Compose in Google Docs available in French and Portuguese

Published Releases

• Deploy and manage Google Credential Provider for Windows via the Admin console

• Expanding the Gmail delegate limit

• New tools to troubleshoot network and performance issues in Google Meet

• Improved mobile device management rules experience in the Admin console

• New option to block devices with basic management from accessing your organization’s data