Secure your Google Workspace user accounts
Protect the account security of the users in your organization. We’ll go over several levels of account protection such as the use of passwords, help you set up “2-step verification”
Protect the account security of the users in your organization. We’ll go over several levels of account protection such as the use of passwords, help you set up “2-step verification”
You can control if users can share Google Drive files and folders with people outside your organization. This video walks you through the external sharing options in the Google Admin console.
You can prevent people in your organization from sharing Google Drive files and folders with anyone except for people in organizations you trust (trusted domains).
You can set storage limits for your users to make sure your organization’s pooled storage is used appropriately.
As a Google Workspace administrator, you can recover Google Drive files for your users if they accidentally deleted them from their Trash within the last 25 days.
Recover an account with backup codes. If your organization uses 2-Step Verification (2SV), administrators or users cannot sign in to their accounts if they lose access to their 2SV method, or they haven’t set up 2SV.
As a Google Workspace administrator, you can manage sharing and other policies for files in shared drives more granularly by assigning the shared drives to child organizational units.
Use Email Log Search (ELS) in your Google Admin console to find messages to and from people in your organization. You can find all messages within a certain time frame, or search for messages by sender or message ID. Optionally, download and save your your results to Google Drive or in a .csv file.
Remove an email alias you’ve assigned to someone in your organization. An email alias is a forwarding address that’s assigned to a primary email address. Messages sent to the alias are automatically sent to the person’s primary email address. Email aliases are useful for people who fill more than one role in your organization, or when you want to get messages for an account that’s no longer in use in your organization.
Check your Google Admin console for email aliases assigned to people in your organization. An email alias is a forwarding address that’s assignaliasesed to a primary email address. Messages sent to the alias are automatically sent to the person’s primary email address. Email aliases are useful for people who fill more than one role in your organization, or when you want to get messages for an account that’s no longer in use in your organization.