### What’s changing Egnyte’s enhanced Google Workspace integration is now generally available to all customers.  With this update, users can now securely locate, open, edit, and manage their Google Workspace files in Egnyte’s web UI, mobile app, and desktop client. This latest update delivers a faster, more intuitive, and more collaborative experience for users who rely on both Egnyte and Google Workspace in their daily workflows, including: * **Dual file storage** – Files are securely stored in both Egnyte and Google Drive, providing flexibility for users and IT teams while maintaining Egnyte’s data governance and access controls * **Egnyte add-ons for Google Workspace** – Share Egnyte files directly from Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for faster, more integrated collaboration without switching between apps * **Smart canvas and Gemini access** – Leverage Google Workspace’s smart canvas capabilities and Gemini features within Egnyte’s updated integration for a more dynamic, interactive editing experience * **Additional Improvements** – Backend optimizations to enhance overall performance, usability, and reliability ### Getting started * **Admins:  ** * The Egnyte Workspace add-on to control file sharing must be enabled by Workspace admins for their domains in the Google Workspace Marketplace Settings menu. * Egnyte admins must also enable the integration for their domains via “Egnyte Apps & Integration Settings” in the Egnyte Settings menu. Visit the Egnyte Help Center to learn more. * **End users:** There is no end user setting for this integration. Visit the Egnyte for Google Workspace Landing Page to learn more. ### Rollout pace This integration is available now. New users of the integration will see the upgraded experience by default. Existing users will be migrated to the new version in a phased manner but can contact Egnyte support to migrate sooner. ### Availability Available for Google Workspace: * Business Starter, Standard, and Plus * Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus * Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus * Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus * Nonprofits * Frontline Starter, Standard, Plus ### Resources * Egnyte Helpdesk: Egnyte for Google Workspace * Landing Page: Egnyte for Google Workspace

### What’s changing We’re excited to introduce Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), our new state-of-the-art image generation and editing model. Starting today, Nano Banana Pro is rolling out to Google Workspace customers in Google Slides, Vids, the Gemini app, and NotebookLM. ### Google Slides: “Help me visualize” in Slides now uses Nano Banana Pro to help anyone create stunning infographics, images, and slides. We also added an all-new experience, “Beautify this slide”, to help people create thoughtfully designed visuals—based on the content of an existing slide—that can be used as individual slides. Here’s what’s coming: * **Infographic:** Generate detailed, professional infographics directly in Slides, all with just a simple prompt. Nano Banana Pro is connected to Google Search’s vast knowledge base, meaning it does an incredible job at representing real-world objects and places, all while taking into account the details you describe in your prompt. * **Images:** The same experience you know, now using Nano Banana Pro. Create stunning, realistic images that help add value to any slide deck. * **Beautify this slide:** In just a click, “Beautify this slide” turns your ideas into a compelling visual with more accurate, legible text while modeling the look and feel of the overall deck. Like what you see? Simply select “insert as new slide” and the visual will be added directly into your deck as an individual slide. _Beautify your slides with Nano Banana Pro in Slides_ ### NotebookLM: With Nano Banana Pro in NotebookLM, you can now visualize key insights from your sources as high-quality infographics. This allows you to distill complex information and relationships into a single, high-impact visual that makes your data easier to digest. You can also create complete and polished slide decks directly from your sources and share them as a PDF. See it in action. ### Google Vids: In Google Vids, Nano Banana Pro allows you to generate and edit images with greater precision. With new multi-turn prompting, you can refine your visuals iteratively, helping you create custom, production-ready assets to include in your videos. ### Gemini app: Generate high-quality, sophisticated visuals that help bring your creative ideas to life in the Gemini app. Simply select “Create images” and “Thinking” from the model drop down menu to access Nano Banana Pro. **Note:** Workspace customers will get promotional access to higher usage limits of Nano Banana Pro in these apps for at least 60 days, allowing users to experiment with these features. Per-user usage limits will apply afterward; we’ll provide more information in a future update prior to any changes. At this time, image generation and editing is only available to users over the age of 18. Developers and business teams can also access Nano Banana Pro on Vertex AI, and soon in Gemini Enterprise. Learn more. ### Getting started * **Admins:** There are no admin controls for this feature. * **End users:** Visit the Help Center for more information on generating images in Gemini, NotebookLM, Slides, and Vids. ### Rollout pace * Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 20, 2025 ### Availability Nano Banana Pro in Google Slides, Google Vids, the Gemini app, and NotebookLM is available for: * Google Workspace Business Standard and Plus * Google Workspace Enterprise Standard and Plus * Google AI Pro and AI Ultra * Google AI Ultra for Business * Google AI Pro for Education Nano Banana Pro in the Gemini app and NotebookLM is also available for Google Workspace: * Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus * Business Starter * Enterprise Starter * Nonprofits * Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus * Frontline Starter, Standard, Plus Nano Banana Pro in Google Vids is also available for Google Workspace: * Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus * Business Starter * * Enterprise Starter * * Nonprofits * * Education Plus and Teaching and Learning add-on* *For a limited time, at least through May 31, 2026, these plans can access generative AI features in Vids. Learn about Google Vids availability. ### Resources * Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn the Gemini app on or off for users * Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn NotebookLM on or off for users * Google Workspace Admin Help: Manage access to Gemini features in Workspace services * Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn Vids on or off for users

### What’s happening To create a more consistent and secure meeting experience, we're changing what happens when you edit recurring Google Calendar events. Previously, when users modified the start time or recurrence of recurring events and applied the change to "This and following events," the remaining events used the original Google Meet link. Moving forward, when users modify the start time or recurrence of a recurring event for "This and following events," the remaining events will automatically generate a new, unique Meet link. The original event series will keep the original Meet link. All properties of the Meet conference (for example the host, cohosts, access restriction, recording) are preserved for both Meet links. This change ensures each new recurring event series gets its own distinct and secure Meet link, which prevents the unintentional reuse of meeting links across separate Calendar events. This is one of multiple updates we’re making to create a more reliable experience for using Meet with Calendar events. ### Getting started * **Admins:** There is no admin control for this feature. * **End users:** There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more. ### Rollout pace * This feature is available now. ### Availability Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google accounts ### Resources * Google Workspace Admin Help: Manage Meet settings * Google Help: Add or remove a Meet conference from event * Google Help: Create a recurring event * Google Workspace Updates  Blog: Enhancing meeting privacy for copied Calendar events

### What’s changing Earlier this year, we launched Gemini in Google Classroom to help educators save time on planning and create more engaging lessons. In the coming weeks, we’re expanding Gemini in Classroom to students in higher education who are 18 years of age and older to help them study and learn. From a central destination in Google Classroom, students will be able to access learning tools available with Gemini for Education, a no-cost version of the Gemini app built for educational institutions where you get expanded access to our most capable AI model and data isn’t reviewed by humans or used to train AI models. Students will be able to * Learn about a topic: Get on-demand support and explanations of challenging concepts or step-by-step guidance with Guided Learning. * Take a quiz: test your knowledge with personalized practice quizzes based on specific topics or class materials to help prepare for exams. * Practice with flashcards: Easily transform notes and class materials into custom digital flashcards for quick review. * Create a study guide: Make a study guide about a certain topic, or upload class notes and materials for more personalized resources. ## Additional details ### Getting started Gemini in Classroom is only available in English for Google Workspace for Education users over the age of 18. The student experience will be available for users whose role is defined as “Student” in Classroom, are in a higher education organization, and are in a group or OU with both Gemini and Gemini in Classroom set to On. * **Admins** : As an administrator of your organization's Google Accounts, you can control who is allowed to use Gemini in Google Classroom to generate content and resources. These capabilities are only available to users who are designated as 18 years of age and over in your institution’s age-based access settings. Visit the Help Center to learn about managing access to Gemini in Classroom and the option to turn the service on or off for users in your Admin console. * Note: Ensure roles in Classroom are appropriately assigned to users. Learn more about teacher and student roles here. * **End users** : * Navigate to the Gemini tab in the navigation bar in Google Classroom. * When using generated content, you should always review the outputs as AI can make mistakes and refine the output so that it fits your context and local policies. * Visit the Help Center to learn more about Gemini in Classroom and learn more about how to use generative AI for students here. ### Rollout pace * Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on December 1, 2025 ### Availability * Available for Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus ### Resources * Google Help: Learn about Gemini in Google Classroom * Google Help: Verify teachers and set permissions * Google Workspace Admin Help: Manage access to Gemini in Classroom * Google Workspace Admin Help: Control access to Google services by age * Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn the Gemini app on or off * Google Workspace Admin Help: Select your organization type for Google Workspace for Education

###  What’s changing Single-sign on with custom OpenID Connect profiles is now generally available. With this capability, admins have the option to set up a custom OpenID Connect (OIDC) profile for single sign-on (SSO) with Google as their service provider. OIDC is a modern authentication layer built on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol and verifies a user's identity without exposing their password to the applications they are accessing. OIDC enables secure, seamless authentication across various platforms, including web, mobile, and cloud environments. With this update, admins have more secure options to configure SSO for their organizations. Previously, only OIDC with pre-configured Microsoft Entra ID profile was supported in addition to SAML. ### Getting started * **Admins:** This feature will be OFF by default and SSO profiles can be assigned to user groups or organizational units. Visit the Help Center to learn more about SSO and configuring custom OIDC profiles for SSO via a third party identity provider. * **End users:** There is no end user setting for this feature. ### Rollout pace * This feature is available now. ### Availability * Available for all Google Workspace customers except Essentials Starter customers and Workspace Individual subscribers * Also available for Cloud Identity and Cloud Identity Premium customers ### Resources * Google Workspace Admin Help: Set up SSO with OIDC * Google Workspace Admin Help: About SSO

### What’s changing We’re bringing our most intelligent model, Gemini 3, to the Gemini app for Google Workspace customers. This update brings state-of-the-art reasoning to your most complex problems, setting a new bar for AI model performance and delivering a more powerful and helpful experience. From the first time you use it, you’ll notice that responses are more helpful, delivering high-quality information with easier-to-read formatting. Gemini 3 brings significant improvements to reasoning across text, images, audio and video, and it’s now the best model in the world for multimodal understanding. Whether you're analyzing data or brainstorming creative ideas, this new model can help you tackle your most ambitious projects. Starting today, you can try our first model of the series, Gemini 3 Pro, by selecting “Thinking” from the model drop down menu in the Gemini app on desktop, mobile app, and mobile web. Gemini 3 is starting to roll out globally to users over the age of 18 in all countries and languages where the Gemini app is available. We've also updated the Gemini app with a clean, modern interface. The new navigation sidebar includes a "My Stuff" folder that makes it easier to find and interact with images, videos and reports you recently created. ### Getting started * **Admins:  **The Gemini app and related in-app tools are controlled by the Generative AI settings in the Workspace Admin console. The Gemini 3 Pro model is subject to these existing controls. Visit the Help Center for more information on turning the Gemini app on or off. * **End users:  **End users who have access to the Gemini app will receive the new 3 Pro model update automatically. ### Rollout pace * Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) ### Availability Available for Google Workspace: * Business Starter, Standard, Plus * Enterprise Starter, Standard, Plus * Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus * Google AI Pro for Education * Frontline Starter, Standard, Plus * Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus * Nonprofits ### Resources * Keyword: Introducing Gemini 3: our most intelligent model that helps you bring any idea to life

### What’s happening Use the new ingredients-to-video capability powered by Veo 3.1 in Google Vids to create eight-second video clips. Simply choose up to three images, write an instructive prompt, and Veo in Vids will generate the clip. This new capability generates clips with consistent subjects, characters, and objects to help you tell a strong, cohesive story. Whether you’re creating a clip to use in a brand promotion, training video, or employee onboarding video, you can now use your preferred images to accurately bring your story to life. --- Generate a video of a woman holding a mug, then cut to the company branded packaging using the provide images --- Generate a video of a woman interacting with the product using the provided images ** ** **Things to try** * **Upload a product image** to produce videos that consistently feature the product in different contexts, angles, and action. * **Upload a character image** to create a multi-shot story where the character's face remains identical, even with changing expressions and camera angles. * **Upload a company logo image** to incorporate the logo consistently within videos, such as a cinematic intro or a persistent watermark. ### Getting started * **Admins:** There is no admin control for this feature. * **End users:** There is no end user setting for this feature. Visit the Help Center to learn more. ### Rollout pace * Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) started on November 12, 2025 * Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on December 3, 2025 ### Availability Available for Google Workspace: * Business Starter, Standard and Plus * Enterprise Starter, Standard and Plus * Essentials, Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Essentials Plus * Nonprofits * Google AI Pro for Education * Education Plus and Teaching and Learning add-on** Also available to: * Google AI Pro and Ultra * Gemini Business, Gemini Enterprise _*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer tothis announcement for more details._ _ _ _**For a limited time, at least through May 31, 2026, Business Starter, Enterprise Starter, Nonprofit, Education Plus, and Teaching and Learning add-on accounts can access generative AI features in Vids. Learn aboutGoogle Vids availability. _ ### Resources * Google Help: Learn how to use AI to generate video clips in Google Vids

### What’s changing Users can now easily block off time on their calendar to work on a specific task. On your calendar, select an empty slot > click task. From here, you can add the relevant task and description, and customize details like visibility and do not disturb settings. Now you can work on a specific task without any disruptions. You'll also see the task on your task list and get reminded until the task is completed ### Getting started * **Admins:** This feature will be available by default. There are no admin controls for this feature. * **End users:** This feature will be available by default. Use our Help Center to learn how to reserve time for Tasks on Calendar. ### Rollout pace * Rapid Release domains: Extended rollout (more than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 6, 2025 * Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on December 1, 2025 ### Availability * Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts ### Resources * Google Help: Time blocking for Tasks

### A summary of announcements from the last week: _The announcements below were published on the  Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details._ **Leverage the power of Gemini models to apply data classification labels in Google Drive - beta applications now open** Earlier this year, we announced a series of changes to AI classification for Google Drive, including a revamped user interface, an on-demand model training process, and support for multiple custom-trained models. Today, we’re excited to share the next step in the product’s evolution: Gemini-based models for data classification, now available in closed beta.  | Learn more about using Gemini with data classification labels. **New AI-powered audio overviews for PDFs in Google Drive** We’re introducing AI-powered audio overviews for PDFs in Google Drive. This new Gemini for Google Workspace feature allows your users to instantly convert long, text-heavy PDFs—such as industry reports, contracts, or lengthy meeting transcripts—into a conversational, podcast-style audio summary. | Learn more about AI audio overviews in Drive. **Available in open beta: Migrate files from Dropbox to Google Drive** Beginning today, the new Data Migration Service can be used to migrate files and folders from Dropbox to Google Drive. This allows organizations to transition easily from Dropbox to Google Workspace, by copying over files, folders and associated permissions securely. | Learn more about the Dropbox migration beta. **Option for longer meeting notes with “take notes for me” in Google Meet** Meeting participants can now configure the length of their meeting notes when using the "take notes for me" feature in Google Meet. By selecting the "Longer" option from the "Notes Length" menu, you can generate notes that are roughly twice as long as the standard document to help capture all the important details. | Learn more about expanded options for taking notes. **Analyze large-scale .csv files in Google Sheets with a new direct-to-BigQuery import** We're making it easier than ever to analyze massive datasets by more seamlessly connecting Google Sheets and BigQuery. Now, users will see a new option to import .csv files containing datasets of any size directly to BigQuery while opening large .csv files. | Learn more about the improved integration with BigQuery. **Desk phone support and on-demand call recording now available in the Google Voice Starter plan** We’re expanding the capabilities of our Google Voice Starter plan by adding two highly requested features already available in Voice Standard and Voice Premier plans today: Desk phone and analog telephone adapter (ATA) support, and On-demand call recording. | Learn more about the new Google Voice features. **Help me create in Google Forms now available in seven additional languages** Earlier this year, we announced Help me create in Google Forms. Now, it is also available to users in Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, and German. | Learn more about the new languages for Help me create in Forms.

### What’s changing Earlier this year, we announced Help me create in Google Forms. Now, it is also available to users in Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, and German. You can use Help me create to enter a prompt that describes the form you want to create or a prompt that references supporting Docs, Sheets, Slides, or PDFs. Gemini will then generate a draft form, incorporating details from any files you reference, that can be used instantly or further customized. --- Help me create in Spanish helps users create a form with a simple prompt ### Getting started * **Admins:** To access Gemini in the side panel of Workspace apps, users need to have smart features and personalization turned on. Admins can turn on default personalization setting for their users in the Admin console.  * **End users:** Visit the Help Center to learn more about creating a form with Gemini in Google Forms.  ### Rollout pace * Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility)  starting on November 12, 2025 * Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility)  starting on November 26, 2025 ### Availability Available for Google Workspace: * Business Standard and Plus * Enterprise Standard and Plus * Google AI Pro for Education * Google AI Pro and Ultra Also available to: * Gemini Business, Enterprise* _*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale.Please refer to this announcement for more details. _ ### Resources * Google Help: Supported languages for Google Workspace with Gemini * Workspace Updates blog: Use Gemini in Google Forms to quickly create a new form

### What’s changing We’re expanding the capabilities of our Google Voice Starter plan by adding two highly requested features already available in Voice Standard and Voice Premier plans today: * **Desk phone and analog telephone adapter (ATA) support:** Organizations using Google Voice Starter can now provision and manage compatible desk phones and adapters. This provides more flexibility, allowing users to make and receive calls on traditional desk hardware if they prefer. * **On-demand call recording:** End users can now easily record important calls for future reference, training, or compliance. An intuitive record button will be available in the Google Voice interface during active calls. These features make the Google Voice Starter plan a more complete solution for organizations that need core telephony features combined with the flexibility of Google Workspace. ### Getting started * **Admins:** * **Desk phone support:** This feature must be enabled by an administrator. * **Call recording:** This feature will be **ON** by default for Voice Starter add-on subscriptions. It can be disabled at the organizational unit (OU) or group level. Note there is no admin control for Voice Starter standalone subscriptions (with a personal @gmail.com account). * **End users:** * **Desk phone support:** Once enabled by your admin, you can add a new desk phone in your Google Voice settings. * **Call recording:** If enabled for your account, you will see a “Record” button during your calls. ### Rollout pace * **Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains:** Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting November 12, 2025 ### Availability * Available for Google Voice Starter, Standard, and Premier ### Resources * Google Workspace Admin Help: Compare Voice Subscriptions * Google Workspace Admin Help: Set Up Google Voice Desk phones * Google Workspace Admin Help: Control recorded calls in Voice

### What’s changing We're making it easier than ever to analyze massive datasets by more seamlessly connecting Google Sheets and BigQuery. Now, users will see a new option to import .csv files containing datasets of any size directly to BigQuery while opening large .csv files from Drive or via the Data > Data Connectors menu flow in Sheets. From there, users can analyze the entire dataset using familiar Sheets features such as charts, pivot tables, and formulas via Connected Sheets. Previously, preparing a large dataset for analysis in Connected Sheets was often a multi-step process that could have involved relying on separate data pipelines, processing tools or multiple upload steps, all before the user could return to Sheets to start their analysis. This new connectivity expedites the analysis workflow by allowing users to directly ingest large datasets and begin analysis seamlessly, all within a single interface. This update will help users move from raw data to insights much faster. --- Part of the upload dialog when users choose to import a file to BigQuery via the Google Sheets interface --- Users with appropriate permissions will also see a new option to import with Connected Sheets when a file is too large for native upload to Sheets ### Getting started * **Admins:** This feature will only be available to users who have been granted permissions to write to BigQuery tables. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Connected Sheets in your organization. * **End users:** This feature will be available by default for users with permissions to write to BigQuery. Visit the Help Center to learn more about uploading to BigQuery and analyzing via Connected Sheets. ### Rollout pace * Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 3, 2025 * Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 18, 2025 ### Availability * Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts ### Resources * Google Workspace Admin Help: Use Connected Sheets in your organization * Google Help: Get started with BigQuery data in Google Sheets * BigQuery Help Center: Using Connected Sheets

### What’s happening Meeting participants can now configure the length of their meeting notes when using the "take notes for me" feature in Google Meet. By selecting the "Longer" option from the "Notes Length" menu, you can generate notes that are roughly twice as long as the standard document to help capture all the important details. Turn on longer notes for technical discussions, complex project meetings, or any session where every detail is critical. --- Caption: Longer notes can be enabled by selecting “Longer” in Notes Length settings.Alt text: An animation showing the process of selecting the “Longer” option in the Notes Length settings for the “Take notes for me” feature in Google Meet. Note: This feature is currently only available in English. ### Getting started * **Admins:** There is no admin control for this feature. * **End users:** This feature will be OFF by default and can be enabled by the user. Visit the Help Center to learn more. ### Rollout pace * Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 11, 2025 ### Availability Available for Google Workspace: * Business Standard and Plus * Enterprise Standard and Plus * Google AI Pro for Education * Frontline Plus Also available to: * Google One AI Premium * Google AI Pro and Ultra * Gemini Business, Enterprise* _*As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale.Please refer to this announcement for more details. _ ### Resources * Google Help: Take notes for me in Google Meet

### What’s changing Beginning today, the new Data Migration Service can be used to migrate files and folders from Dropbox to Google Drive. This allows organizations to transition easily from Dropbox to Google Workspace, by copying over files, folders and associated permissions securely. You can start and complete a migration in a few simple steps: * Connect to your Dropbox business account from which you want to copy data. * Specify which users or team folders you want to copy from and which user’s MyDrive or Google shared drive should contain the copied data. * Specify users and groups whose permissions should be copied. --- Example of a running Dropbox to Google Drive migration ### Additional details * You can migrate data from up to 100 Dropbox users or team folders at a time to MyDrive or Google shared drives respectively. * You can find comprehensive reporting on migration progress, including site and file counts (migrated/skipped). You can also export migration reports for error investigation and troubleshooting. * Delta updates are available to migrate newly added or updated files. ### Getting started * **Admins:**   You can find this new solution in the Admin console under _Menu > Data > Data Import & export > Data Migration (New)_. Visit the Help Center to learn more about Dropbox to Google Drive migration and new Data Migration Service. ### Rollout pace * Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) started on November 10, 2025 ### Availability Available for Google Workspace: * Business Starter, Standard, and Plus * Enterprise Starter, Standard, and Plus * Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus * Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus * Nonprofits ### Resources * Google Workspace Admin Help: Migrate files from Dropbox (beta)

### What’s happening To improve data governance, we’re changing how secondary calendar ownership is defined in Google Calendar. A secondary calendar is any calendar that you create or a group calendar that is shared with you. Previously, secondary calendars could only be managed at the organization level. Going forward, each secondary calendar will have a single, dedicated owner. When a new secondary calendar is created, the creator becomes the calendar owner. For existing secondary calendars, an owner will be automatically assigned based on the calendar’s permissions. The calendar will inherit the organizational policies from its owner. This provides fine-grained control for admins to define policies for each calendar, such as data regions or assured controls. Additionally, we’re introducing the ability to transfer secondary calendar ownership to another user in the same organization, through Google Calendar settings (for end users) or the Admin console (for admins). This is especially helpful when a calendar owner changes teams or leaves the organization, to ensure the calendar remains associated with the appropriate owner. --- How the owner is shown in Calendar settings --- How the owner can be transferred from Calendar settings --- How the owner can be transferred in the Admin console ### Additional details The Google Calendar API has been updated to reflect these changes. Developers can retrieve the secondary calendar owner using the API for Calendars and CalendarList. In addition, we’ve added updates to ensure only the secondary calendar owner can delete the calendar, and that their access level cannot be downgraded as long as they are the owner. Please refer to the API release notes for additional information. ### Getting started * **Admins:** This feature will be ON by default and cannot be disabled. To help manage this transition, admins can now transfer the ownership of secondary calendars from one user to another directly in the Admin console. * **End users:** This feature will be ON by default and cannot be disabled. For existing secondary calendars, an owner will be automatically assigned based on the calendar’s permissions. End users who own a secondary calendar can transfer ownership to another user. ### Rollout pace * Users with personal Google accounts: Rolling out now * Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on December 3, 2025 ### Availability * Available to all Google Workspace customers and users with personal Google accounts

### What’s happening We’re introducing AI-powered audio overviews for PDFs in Google Drive. This new Gemini for Google Workspace feature allows your users to instantly convert long, text-heavy PDFs—such as industry reports, contracts, or lengthy meeting transcripts—into a conversational, podcast-style audio summary. With just one click, a new audio file is saved directly to their Drive. This feature is powered by the same underlying technology as NotebookLM’s popular Audio Overview feature. --- In today's fast-paced environment, dedicating time to read long documents can be a significant challenge. Audio overviews solve this by allowing users to absorb critical information while they are multitasking. Users can listen to the summaries from anywhere they can access their Drive files, whether they’re commuting, working out, or doing chores. This feature can help your users: * **Boost efficiency** by allowing users to quickly grasp the main points of a long document in a two- to 10-minute audio summary, * **Improve accessibility** by providing an alternative format for consuming content, and * **Enhance preparation** by making it easier to quickly review materials before meetings or client presentations. Once the audio overview is generated on a desktop, the user receives an email notification that the file is ready. The audio file is automatically saved to a new "Audio overviews" folder in their Drive, which they can then access from any mobile or desktop device. _Please note: At launch, this feature supports English-language PDFs only._ ### Getting started * **Admins:** There is no admin control for this feature. * **End users:** This feature will be ON by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about audio overviews for PDFs in Drive, including per user daily usage limits. ### Rollout pace * Rapid Release domains: Available now * Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting November 12, 2025 ### Availability Available for Google Workspace * Business Standard and Plus * Enterprise Standard and Plus Also available to * Google One AI Pro and AI Ultra * Google AI Ultra for Business * Google AI Pro for Education ### Resources * Google Help: Create Content, Images & Audio Overviews with Gemini in Drive

### What’s changing Earlier this year, we announced a series of changes to AI classification for Google Drive, including a revamped user interface, an on-demand model training process, and support for multiple custom-trained models. Today, we’re excited to share the next step in the product’s evolution: Gemini-based models for data classification, now available in closed beta. This feature leverages Gemini models to apply data classification labels to files in Google Drive. To date, AI classification requires admins to identify and manually label training files for the AI model to learn the types of data associated with each data classification level. With this new capability, Gemini models offers admins another method to set up AI classification by eliminating the need for manual model training, replacing the process with administrator-defined instructions or prompts. Gemini models interpret prompts, evaluate files, and apply appropriate data classification labels based on the provided instructions. For files labeled by Gemini, editors and owners on those files with the appropriate label permissions will have the opportunity to review and accept or modify the automatically applied label. Administrators maintain full control. They select the label, provide instructions via a prompt, and scope the audience whose files are being evaluated. Audit logs capture when files are labeled or any user acceptance or modification of a Gemini-applied label occurs. ### Who’s impacted Admins ### Why it matters Data classification is a critical activity for organizations that are conscious about data protection, compliance, and reporting. However, data classification can also be challenging to put into practice, particularly when it comes to accurately classifying files at scale.  Using AI for data classification aims to address this problem by using a model’s ability to reason to achieve a high degree of data classification accuracy, at scale. ### Rollout pace * Closed Beta - customers must be manually enrolled to begin testing. ### Getting started * **Admins:**   For customers interested in testing, we kindly ask that you share your interest by filling out this form. * **Please note** – during this phase of product validation, enrollment will be limited. Our intent is to gradually onboard customers leading up to an Open Beta. * Ideal closed-beta participants will be organizations with existing data classification programs, who have the capacity to actively test the models and are willing to engage with the Workspace product team to provide direct feedback on their experience. * If you are selected for the Closed Beta, you will receive an email detailing specific onboarding instructions. * **End users:** There is no end user setting for this feature. ### Availability Available to Google Workspace: * Enterprise Plus ### Resources * Closed beta application form

### A summary of announcements from the last week: _The announcements below were published on the  Workspace Updates blog over the last week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details._ **New to Google Meet: Continue your conversations in Google Chat** GStarting November 10, your Google Meet in-meeting messages will be powered by and available in Google Chat. That means the meaningful feedback that was messaged during the meeting, or key resources and links that were shared are now easily accessible to meeting attendees after the meeting, in a shared Google Chat conversation. | Learn more about continuing conversations between Chat and Meet. **Controls for restricting conversation creation in Google Chat available to more organizations** We are expanding an existing Google Chat feature to more Workspace customers. This feature gives administrators the ability to limit who can create new conversations in Google Chat. When this setting is applied to users (through an organizational unit or a Google Group), those users will be prevented from initiating new conversations, or adding new members to existing conversations. | Learn more about the new Google Chat controls. **Updated Chat header helps you navigate chat more quickly and easily** We are introducing a redesigned Google Chat conversation header on the web. The new header offers a simpler, more consistent layout that makes key tools easier to find and use. It includes a side panel where users can access shared content and manage tasks without leaving the conversation view. | Learn more about the new header in Google Chat. **Set sharing expirations on files and folders in shared drives** We previously introduced the option to set expirations on files that reside in shared drives using the Google Drive API. Today, we are bringing the ability to set expiring access for files and folders in shared drives directly from the sharing dialog. This highly-requested feature brings the ease and security of My Drive access controls into your collaborative shared drives. | Learn more about expiring access in shared drives. **Bringing inline threading to direct messages in Google Chat** We’re excited to announce that inline threading is rolling out for direct messages (DMs) and group direct messages (gDMs) in Google Chat. This has been a highly requested feature, and we're pleased to deliver it as part of our effort to simplify the Chat experience and address top user feedback about conversation consistency. | Learn more about threading in Chat DMs. **Gemini Deep Research now integrates with your Workspace content** We’re expanding the capabilities of Gemini’s Deep Research feature by integrating it with your Google Workspace apps. This update allows Deep Research to seamlessly gather information from your content in Gmail, Chat, and Drive - including Slides, Sheets and Docs files - in addition to the web, to create a more comprehensive and personalized report. | Learn more about using Deep Research with your Workspace content. **Use a wider range of emoji reactions in Google Meet** Google Meet users now have access to the full emoji library for reactions in Google Meet. Reactions let users engage with the content in a meeting, share meaningful feedback or praise, and celebrate company culture all through emoji. | Learn more about additional emoji reactions in Meet.

### What’s changing Google Meet users now have access to the full emoji library for reactions in Google Meet. Reactions let users engage with the content in a meeting, share meaningful feedback or praise, and celebrate company culture all through emoji. _A user sending Emoji reactions “Heart on fire” and “Party face” from the extended set  _ ### Getting started * **Admins:** The feature will be ON by default for users. Admins can change the default setting at the domain, OU, and group level. * **End users:** If enabled by your admin, the feature will be available by default on web and Android. For other platforms, please see the Limitations section. Meeting hosts and co-hosts can turn it off using host controls. It is possible to turn off the full picker but keep the current emoji bar with a more limited selection of reactions. Visit the Help Center to learn more using reactions in Google Meet. ### Limitations * Meet Rooms hardware will not have the extended Emoji selections available but will be able to receive and display reactions from the extended Emoji set. The currently existing options will remain available to send reactions. Joining the Meet call with companion mode from your personal device will enable you to send reactions from the extended Emoji set. * Live stream viewers will not have the extended Emoji selections available but will be able to receive and display reactions from the extended Emoji set. The current existing options will remain available to send reactions. * On iOS devices, the capability to send reactions from the extended set will be added at a later point in time. On the initial rollout, iOS users will be able to see reactions from the extended set sent by those on compatible platforms. * Organizational custom Emojis are not supported. ### Rollout pace #### Admin controls * Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 6th 2025. #### End user feature availability * Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 19th, 2025 * Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on December 9th 2025 ### Availability Available for Google Workspace: * Business Standard and Plus * Enterprise Standard and Plus ### Resources * Google Workspace Admin Help: Manage Meet settings (for admins) * Google Help: Use reactions in Google Meet

### What’s changing We’re expanding the capabilities of Gemini’s Deep Research feature by integrating it with your Google Workspace apps. This update allows Deep Research to seamlessly gather information from your content in Gmail, Chat, and Drive - including Slides, Sheets and Docs files - in addition to the web, to create a more comprehensive and personalized report. Previously, users had to manually upload individual files from Drive to supplement their Deep Research. Now, Deep Research can pull securely from your Workspace content, including emails and even chats, informing reports with relevant context. This update helps end users, including students, educators and those in small businesses, to do their best work by making research more efficient and context-aware. Your users can now integrate information directly from: * Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and PDFs in Drive, including non-Google files * Context from emails in Gmail * Information from Chat messages Example use cases for end users: * **Business planning:** Users can ask Deep Research to kickstart analysis for a new product using team documents, build out a competitor report referencing internal strategy memos and communications, or help onboard onto a new project quickly after analyzing documents, emails, and chat history. * **Project catch-up:** Get quickly caught up on an in-progress project by asking, "Catch me up on my <some project you have docs, chats, emails about. e.g., my remodeling project>. What are some decisions I need to make, and for each, can you research potential options". * **Academic research:** Students and faculty can ask Deep Research to review their existing notes and research papers on a topic and combine that with web research to pull together an insightful report that includes insights from their own documents. ### Getting started * **Admins:** Gemini access to Workspace apps is controlled by the “Allow access to Workspace apps” setting. Visit the Help Center for more information on turning Workspace apps in Gemini on or off. * **End users:** If enabled by their admin, users can choose to connect Google Workspace apps in Gemini. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using apps connected to Gemini. Once connected, select "Deep Research" from the Tools menu in Gemini and enter your research question. Visit the Help Center to learn more about using the Gemini web app for in-depth research. ### Rollout pace * Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: This feature is available now for desktop and will begin rolling out to mobile users in the coming days. ### Availability Available for Google Workspace: * Business Starter, Standard, Plus * Enterprise Starter, Standard, Plus * Education Fundamentals, Standard, and Plus * Frontline Starter and Standard * Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus * Nonprofits Available for Google Workspace customers with these add-ons: * Gemini Business* * Gemini Enterprise* * Google AI Pro for Education *As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details. ### Resources * Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn Google apps in Gemini on or off * Help Center: Use Deep Research in Gemini Apps * Keyword: Gemini Deep Research can now connect to your Gmail, Docs, Drive and even Chat

### What’s changing We’re excited to announce that inline threading is rolling out for direct messages (DMs) and group direct messages (gDMs) in Google Chat. This has been a highly requested feature, and we're pleased to deliver it as part of our effort to simplify the Chat experience and address top user feedback about conversation consistency. Until now, inline threading was only available in spaces. With this update, you can now reply in-thread to any message in a direct conversation, just as you do in a space. This helps to keep conversations organized, allowing you and your colleagues to follow specific topics and avoid cluttering the main chat stream. ### Getting started * **Admins:** There is no admin control for this feature. * **End users:** There is no end user setting for this feature. This feature will be ON by default as it rolls out. ### Rollout pace * Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 5, 2025 * Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 19, 2025 ### Availability Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts ### Resources * Google Help: Use threads in Chat spaces * Google Help: Reply to a message in Google Chat

### What’s changing We previously introduced the option to set expirations on files that reside in shared drives using the Google Drive API. Today, we are bringing the ability to **set expiring access for files and folders in shared drives directly from the sharing dialog.** This highly-requested feature brings the ease and security of My Drive access controls into your collaborative shared drives. ### File expirations You can now set expirations when sharing files in a shared drive. This lets you add an expiration date right in the sharing dialog for temporary collaborators, ensuring access is automatically revoked and eliminating the need for manual cleanup. --- Add expiration while sharing files in shared drives. ### Folder expirations For shared drive folders, you can now apply an expiration date specifically to the Viewer role. This setting is easily accessible in the folder's sharing dialog, helping you automatically remove read-only access when a collaborator's temporary need is finished. --- Add expiration for Viewer role while sharing folders in shared drives. ### Consistent expiration behavior in My Drive We're standardizing access expiration for files and folders in My Drive. The experience is now consistent with shared drives, making it more predictable for you to know when access will expire. **Old behavior:** If you granted someone temporary **Editor** access to a file inside a parent folder they could only view, they would **lose all access** to the file once their Editor permission expired. **New behavior:** When their temporary **Editor** access expires, their permission will **revert to the access they have on the parent folder** (in this case, Viewer). They will not lose access to the file completely. --- Editor access expires, and reverts to Viewer access (user has Viewer access on the parent folder). ### Getting started * **Admins:** There is no admin control for this feature. * **End users:** This feature will be available by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about how to manage expiring access in shared drives. You can only set sharing expirations on Web and Android phones. Expirations cannot be set on iOS devices in My Drive or shared drives. ### Rollout pace * Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 4, 2025 * Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 13, 2025 ### Availability Available to Google Workspace: * Business Starter, Standard, Plus * Enterprise Starter, Standard, Plus * Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus * Education Standard, Plus * Nonprofits * Frontline Starter, Standard, Plus Also available to: * Google One AI Premium * Google AI Pro and Ultra * Gemini Business, Enterprise* *As of January 15, 2025, we’re no longer offering the Gemini Business and Gemini Enterprise add-ons for sale. Please refer to this announcement for more details. ### Resources * Google Help: Share folders in Google Drive * Google Learning Center: Set an expiration date for file access

### What’s changing We are introducing a redesigned Google Chat conversation header on the web. The new header offers a simpler, more consistent layout that makes key tools easier to find and use. It includes a side panel where users can access shared content and manage tasks without leaving the conversation view. The panel’s width can be adjusted or expanded to a full-screen view as needed. Specifically, the new header has icons which can be used to: * Select “Shared” to access shared files, links and media. * Select “Tasks” to create and manage space tasks. * Select “Threads” to see and respond to active threads. * Select “Board” to see pinned messages, files and shared links. --- Navigating between Shared, Tasks, Threads, and Board by clicking on header icons --- Side panels can expand into fullscreen with the drag bar ### Getting started * **Admins:** This feature will be on by default. There is no admin control for this feature. * **End users:** This feature will be on by default for users on the web. To use it, look for the icons in the top right of your Chat window. Use our Help Center to learn how to navigate Google Chat. ### Rollout pace * Rapid Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on November 4, 2025 * Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on November 11, 2025 ### Availability * Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts ### Resources * Google Help: Navigate Google Chat

### What’s changing We are expanding an existing Google Chat feature, previously only available for Education customers, to more Workspace customers. This feature gives administrators the ability to limit who can create new conversations in Google Chat. When this setting is applied to users (through an organizational unit or a Google Group), those users will be prevented from initiating new conversations, or adding new members to existing conversations. Users with this restriction can continue to converse in conversations they are already a member of. ### Why it’s important Similar to how this feature is used for students, it allows organizations to enable Chat for a segment of employees such that they can receive important messages and contribute to existing conversations, while limiting their ability to create new, unmanaged conversations. This helps provide a safer and easier way for organizations to communicate. ### Getting started * **Admins:** This feature will be OFF by default. It can be enabled for specific users by placing them in an Organizational Unit (OU) or a Google Group and applying the setting in the Admin console. * **End users:** There is no end-user setting for this feature. If this policy is applied to your account by your administrator, you will not be able to start new conversations or create spaces, but you can still reply to conversations you are added to. ### Rollout pace * Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on November 3, 2025 ### Availability * Business Plus * Enterprise Standard and Plus * Business Continuity and Continuity Plus * Frontline Plus and Frontline Standard ### Resources * Google Workspace Admin Help: Set up Chat restrictions * Google Help: Create, send & reply to messages in Google Chat

### What’s happening? Starting November 10, your Google Meet in-meeting messages will be powered by and available in Google Chat. That means the meaningful feedback that was messaged during the meeting, or key resources and links that were shared are now easily accessible to meeting attendees after the meeting, in a shared Google Chat conversation. This change brings the power of Google Chat to Meet, creating a richer in-meeting messaging experience. Meeting attendees can now respond to messages with emojis, and share images and files directly in Google Meet. Attendees can send pre-reads and other meeting materials to the group ahead of the meeting in Google Chat, and these resources will be available in Google Meet throughout the call. This launch also consolidates all your messaging and conversations into Google Chat, making it easy to find messages or shared files all in one place. This change is designed to improve post-meeting follow-through, leading to increased team productivity, and we’re excited for what this will mean for your teams and their collaboration. ### Getting started #### Admins: * **Availability:** All end users in your org will have this feature on eligible meetings. * **Data retention & DLP: **These messages are stored in a Google Chat conversation, and will respect the retention policies and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) rules you have configured for Google Chat. * **If disabled by host:** If a host turns off continuous meeting chat for a specific meeting, that meeting will use the existing, unlinked in-call messaging. To retain such messages, you must record the meeting. #### End Users: * **Eligible meetings:** This feature is available for meetings scheduled in Google Calendar. It applies to the meeting host and all other invited attendees who are part of the host's domain. * **Host control:** Meeting hosts retain full control and can disable this feature for any meeting. This option must be toggled in the Google Calendar event's video call options before the meeting starts and cannot be changed once the meeting is in progress. * **External attendees:** To ensure security and clarity, external attendees will only have access to the chat during the time they are in the meeting. They will not be able to participate in a conversation before a meeting nor see the conversation history after one. Internal attendees will see clear ‘external’ indicators and banners when guests are present in the conversation. ### Rollout pace * **Rapid Release domains:** Extended rollout (up to 30 days for feature visibility) starting no earlier than November 10th, 2025. * **Scheduled Release domains:** Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting no earlier than Dec 3rd, 2025. ### Availability Available to all Google Workspace business and enterprise customers with the following plans: * Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Essentials Plus * Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus * Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus * Frontline Starter, Frontline Standard, Frontline Plus ### Resources * Google Workspace Admin Help: Retain Google Chat messages with Vault  * Google Help: Learn how to use Chat with Google Meet