Practical Google Workspace Administration Professional

Explore the Google Workspace admin console, where you manage users, billing, backups, and branding from left, center, and right navigation, using the top search to jump to apps and settings.

Learn to navigate the Google workspace admin console, manage users and billing, set security measures, monitor with service dashboards and alerts, and validate your domain to enable services.

Verify your primary domain for Google Workspace with two DNS text records for mail and site verification. Manage domains, aliases, and allow lists to share Google Drive.

Navigate Google Workspace administration language, access the global status dashboard, and organize users with organizational units. Explore reports, audits, and alerts while considering privacy implications for administrators.

Turn on MFA for Google Workspace by enabling two-step verification and setting new user enrollment; enforce it organization-wide from the super admin account and device trust.

Learn to manage Google Workspace users, including adding and updating users, bulk CSV uploads or API workflows, and configuring custom attributes and organizational units.

Learn to manage user attributes under users, including global or local updates, bulk updates, and downloading all users, plus custom attributes and MFA for the super admin.

Create and manage target audiences to control data sharing in drive and docs, assign senior leadership members, and enforce security through organizational units.

Configure directory settings to control sharing, editing, and visibility across your organization. Enable contact sharing and domain data visibility to sync with external apps like Slack or Zoom.

Configure Google Groups to manage access and security for sensitive data, separate from organizational units. Create custom groups for external contractors, and control who can view and post.

Understand organizational units as simple buckets in a directory, with root and parent units like all hands, human resources, and senior leadership to organize groups and target audiences.

Set up and manage buildings and resources in Google Workspace to organize conference rooms, spaces, and bookings, with bulk upload, room insights, and capacity tracking.

Learn how to add an LDAP directory to sync objects from Google Directory to Google Workspace, configure Active Directory details, project ID, and connector for cloud integration.

Learn to connect Jira with Google Workspace by enabling sign-in with Google, enforcing Google login, syncing users and groups, and configuring domain verification and identity provider settings.

Manage Google Workspace users via the admin console, enabling two-step verification and recovery emails. Organize with groups, organizational units, and directory settings plus LDAP directory sync.

Master devices management in Google Workspace by exploring the overview page and left navigation, learning how to configure hardware sessions and leverage mobile endpoints for your organization.

Manage mobile devices through Google Workspace by configuring device settings, enabling remote wipe, auditing registrations, and enforcing encryption and data policies across iOS and company-owned hardware.

Control mobile endpoints with granular settings for iOS, Android, and Windows, including device approvals, BYOD policies, remote wipe, universal settings, Apple certificates, and device enrollment tokens, via Google Sync.

Navigate to mobile device reports in the admin console to view seven-day graphs of managed devices by operating system, showing synced devices and basic trend data.

Explore how to manage company devices and mobile endpoints in the Google Workspace admin console, including importing devices, setting up reports and alerts, and enforcing security policies.

Explore Chrome management for browsers and Chrome devices, including enrollment tokens, reporting, and per-device settings. Learn to control sign-in, incognito mode, history, apps and extensions, and privacy implications across devices.

Manage browsers in Google Workspace by enrolling devices with an enrollment token, configuring per-organizational-unit policies, app and extension controls, and branding options for different groups.

Configure networks for Chromebooks, including Wi-Fi, Ethernet, VPN, and cellular options, using certificates from your private certificate authority and SEP profiles to enforce granular access control.

Configure device rules in Google Workspace by creating custom reporting roles, selecting data sources, applying filters, and enabling email and alert center notifications to support device auditing and compliance.

Learn to configure device audits in Google Workspace, create reporting roles for compromised devices, and route alerts and email notifications to admins while tracking device events across domains.

Discover device reports in Google Workspace to track who did what, when, and where; monitor device activity, app usage, and security audits with exportable logs.

Learn how to manage apps and extensions in Google Workspace by configuring allow all apps, extension types, install sources, and permissions, and applying policies by organizational unit, user, or group.

Explore the apps screen to manage, add, or remove current applications, access core and additional options, integrate with marketplace apps, and set up devices for productive use.

Explore the core Google apps in Google Workspace, configure access controls and sharing, and manage domain allowlists to control cross-domain sharing across Calendar, Drive, Gmail, Meet, and Vault.

Configure Google Calendar admin settings to manage external sharing, free or busy information versus details, and working hours, display calendar status, and focus time, with default Google Meet videoconferencing setup.

Google Calendar settings for individuals and admins, including time zones and automatic primary time zone updates, world clock, default durations, speedy meetings, working hours, calendar sharing, and public calendar options.

Configure Google drives and docs policies to manage external sharing, allowed domains, target audiences, and write permissions for secure collaboration.

Restore deleted data in Drive and Gmail within 25 days by selecting the user and choosing restore data. Disabling a user is safer than deleting to prevent data loss.

Explore Google Workspace Gmail admin setup, configuring DMARC and DKIM, securing email with spam, phishing, and malware controls, and tuning user settings like multi-send mode and offline access.

Set up a mail route by specifying the email server and IP address, enable TLS, and test the connection; name the route for single or multiple hosts.

Enable mail delegation in the Google Workspace admin console by turning on Gmail users' delegation in user settings, allowing domain users to access mailboxes and delegate emails to Google Group.

Configure Google Workspace groups as a collaborative inbox to create a shared mailbox for teams. Clarify access and posting rules, external members, and moderation to support a help desk workflow.

Set up DKIM by logging in as super admin, generating a DKIM key, and updating DNS text records, then wait 48 hours before starting authentication to secure outgoing email.

Set up SPF spoofing and authentication in Gmail safety settings, then define an SPF record in DNS with the host at and a text value that includes Google.

Learn how to configure default and secondary email quarantines in Google workspace administration, set inbound and outbound denial consequences, enable periodic notifications, and apply quarantines to groups such as contractors.

Enable Gmail safety with default quarantine for anomalous attachments, enable IMAP link protection, scan links and linked images for phishing, and enforce SPF/DKIM to guard against spoofing and unauthenticated emails.

Enable end users to access mail on clients by keeping POP and IMAP on and enabling Google Workspace sync for Outlook, with delegation, forwarding, and image URL proxy allow lists.

Learn how Google Workspace global spam settings guard against phishing and malware by configuring allow lists, approved senders that bypass spam, and pre delivery message scanning.

Learn to configure Gmail compliance settings to preserve data, append legal footers, enforce content filters, enable TLS and MTA STS, and tailor delivery restrictions for discovery and security.

Explore Google Chat as the modern replacement for classic Hangouts, manage chat and spaces, enforce history for compliance, and configure external file sharing and app integrations.

Explore Google Meet as Google's answer to Teams, featuring customizable video settings, transcripts, attendance reporting, and meeting recordings with host controls and breakout rooms.

Group conversations into pockets of information within your organization using groups for business, with configurable sharing, external member controls, and a suffix to brand group names.

Discover how groups for business enable collaboration via public fourth gen groups, with configurable join and posting policies, and features like a collaborative inbox for classroom or club use.

Manage Google Sites with Google Drive, enabling site creation and editing, internal sharing, and publish controls. Choose a custom url from your verified domain and decide whether to enable sites.

Enable and manage tasks as a minimal Google Workspace add-on tied to email, with simple on/off controls, task creation and due dates, integrated into the email framework.

Explore turning on or off additional Google services, and manage access via Google Cloud Platform, while assessing your risk footprint and selecting tools like Google Analytics, Google Ads, Google Domains.

Configure web and mobile apps for your organization, including Discord and Slack, across Android devices. Set access, install preferences, update timing, and provisioning, and manage login metadata and certificates.

Explore ldap, a lightweight directory access protocol and competitor to Active Directory, and configure client access, certificates, and selective attribute reads for contractors with audit logs.

Explore how to manage Google Marketplace apps, set allow lists or blocked apps, install apps, and assess security implications to control the domain threat surface.

Set up Google Vault retention rules to indefinitely preserve Gmail, Drive, Groups, chats, and meetings for discovery and legal needs, then export audit reports as CSV for holds and investigations.

Explore Google Classroom in Google Workspace, create classrooms, post classwork and videos, onboard students, manage grades, and use class codes and meet links for training and Google Vault data retention.

New Google Workspace accounts experience a 30-day or $30 YouTube limit; pay to unlock YouTube or wait 30 days, with education nonprofit workarounds and direct signup options.

Master Google Workspace security overview by configuring user permissions, policies, and rules, and implementing password management and protection across accounts; explore alerts and login controls in the security center.

Use the alert center for admin alerts, auditing and investigating account activity; export details to Google Docs, assign ownership, and manage rule scope, history, and status across integrations.

Manage Google default rules and create alerts from log events in the alert center, including email notifications for super users. Audit and adjust rules to track events like account suspension.

Create an alert rule to monitor calendar and admin log events by applying filters, setting device types and severity, and routing low-severity alerts to the alert center.

Set up and enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) with a two-step process, establish a two-week grace period for new users, and enable trusted devices and flexible MFA methods.

Enable account recovery to let super admins regain access via recovery emails. Turn it on for Google Workspace as the identity provider, and off when using a third-party identity provider.

Enable the advanced protection program to automatically enroll journalists and activists, override standard policies, and use single-use security codes for remote access.

Enable login challenges using employee IDs for added security, assign them by organizational unit for high risk roles, and emphasize non biometric verification to guard against device loss.

Enforce strong passwords in Google Workspace by setting a minimum length of eight and preventing password reuse. Set expiry to 180 days and force the policy at next sign-in.

Learn to force a user off Google Workspace by suspending the account, resetting sign-in cookies, and removing connected applications to prevent data access from third-party apps.

Learn how to configure single sign-on with an identity provider by collecting the URL, entity ID, and certificate, downloading the XML metadata, and managing certificates across providers.

Configure 3rd party SSO with Google Workspace using a third party IdP, including sign-in, sign-out, change-password URLs, and uploading a verification certificate.

Manage third-party access with api controls in Google workspace, including domain-wide delegation and trusted apps. Restrict data and monitor access for services such as Atlassian Cloud, Google sign-in, and Slack.

Learn how to enable and apply data classification labels in Google Drive and Docs, configure automatic labeling, and enforce restricted, confidential, internal, and public classifications.

Explore the reporting dashboard to see who did what when, login activity, and storage usage; export results to Google Sheets for audits and investigations.

Explore application reports in Google Workspace to view active apps, class activity, and user data by device, and assess data regions, enterprise plans, and aggregate reports for usage insights.

Explore user reports to see how applications are used, who owns accounts, and how users are grouped by organizational unit, with security checks on external apps and password length compliance.

Explore mobile app reporting that covers only managed devices, focusing on iOS syncing, OS versions, upgrade paths, uptime, and export to third-party dashboards like Tableau.

Track subscriptions, licenses, and invoices in Google Workspace billing, monitor per-day per-seat charges, and upgrade with add-ons like Google Vault to support FERPA compliance and education needs.

Identify who uses storage across users and shared drives, and apply storage limit policies to manage five terabytes per person.

Prepare for the Google workspace administration exam guide by examining user life cycle, groups, vault, data loss prevention, third-party apps, and Gmail security configurations.

Learn how Google-style test questions are constructed and how to study them using a 20-question practice test, with emphasis on OAuth whitelisting, Drive and Docs, Groups, and spam prevention.

Register for Google Cloud certification exams, choose remote or on-site proctoring, set date and time in your time zone, and review retake and payment policies.