Google Workspace (G Suite) Admin - The Complete Course

Explore Google Workspace editions and plans, upgrade options, core applications, and the admin console; set up a trial and learn SPF, DMARC, and the shared responsibility model.

Explore Google workspace, a cloud productivity suite with mail, calendar, drive, docs, groups, and meet. Understand its four core groups—communications, storage, collaboration, admin control—and how admins adapt to updates.

Compare Google workspace business and enterprise editions, noting user limits, pooled storage, and three subscriptions, plus enterprise features like security center, context-aware access, DLP, and BigQuery log export.

Explore the Google workspace admin console to manage your domain with users, groups, organizational units, devices, and reports, while leveraging role-based access, pre-built roles, and the navigation and search tools.

Set up a Google Workspace trial by visiting G Suite at google.com, entering business name, number of users, country, and domain, then configure the admin console and Cloud Identity Premium.

Explore how SPF, DKIM, and DMARC form the foundation of email security, and learn to configure these DNS records to secure outgoing mail and verify incoming messages in G Suite.

Learn how spf records in your dns zone authorize email servers for your domain, prevent spoofing, and guide how txt records and mx records validate messages.

Learn how DKIM uses private and public keys to sign emails. Publish the public key in your DNS and verify sender authenticity with DMARC policies.

Learn how DMARC (domain-based message authentication, reporting, and conformance) protects domains from spoofing and phishing by aligning SPF and DKIM with a published policy, actions, and reporting.

Configure SPF, DKIM, and DMARC DNS TXT records, publish the DKIM public key, and set a root-domain DMARC policy to secure and authenticate email traffic.

Customize the admin console with branding, logo, and custom URLs. Set release preferences for features and applications, and manage primary and recovery admin emails, language, and time zone.

Learn how to get timely support for your Google Workspace admin console by contacting a reseller or Google directly, using chat, phone, or email, and escalating as needed.

Explore the various user provisioning options in Google Workspace. Learn manual provisioning, bulk XP upload, directory sync with on-prem Active Directory, GAM, and the Admin API to streamline onboarding.

Navigate the admin console to manually add users, fill mandatory fields, and configure password options, organizational unit, and profile photo, then share or force a password change at first login.

Learn to add multiple Google Workspace users at once by uploading a CSV template with required fields like first name, last name, email, password, and organizational unit path.

Configure Google Cloud Directory Sync to provision users from on-prem Active Directory into Google Workspace using LDAP queries and object mappings, with simulation, exclusions, and scheduled reporting.

Connect on-prem Active Directory to Google Workspace using Directory Sync in the admin console. Syncs users and groups, creates default passwords, and sends welcome emails during migrations.

Learn to add and bulk-provision Google Workspace users using gum, the open-source Google Apps Manager command line tool, through manual commands or CSV-based automation workflows.

Explore how the Admin SDK API provisions and manages Google Workspace users and groups via the Directory API, with guidance, references, and practical workflow insights.

Manage Google Workspace users—update profiles, move and alias accounts, suspend or delete users, recover data, delegate admin rights, and handle unmanaged accounts, while enforcing security, licensing, and password practices.

Learn how to manage user information in Google Workspace by renaming users, updating primary emails and aliases, and editing profile details such as work info and location.

Learn how to move a user between organizational units in Google Workspace, manage policies and service access, and anticipate impacts on Drive, Docs, and Meet.

Learn how to suspend and reactivate Google Workspace users, preserve licenses and data, decide when to delete, and manage bulk suspensions via CSV and API.

Learn how to delete and undelete Google Workspace users, manage licenses and data transfer, and recover accounts within 20 days to minimize data loss and security risks.

Restore a user's deleted data within 25 days in Google Workspace, from Gmail or Drive, via the admin console or Google Vault as a last resort.

Control Google Workspace licensing by configuring automatic license assignment and manually managing licenses for users and groups via the users view and billing settings.

Explore Google Workspace admin role management with role based access control, covering pre-built and custom admin roles, minimal required permissions, audit logs, and how to delegate tasks securely.

View and manage user security in Google Workspace. Access security keys, two-step verification, backup codes, recovery information, application specific passwords, and connected apps via user profiles or security reports.

Learn how to use the transfer tool for unmanaged accounts to resolve conflicting Google Workspace usernames, invite the user to transfer, or rename the old account, including bulk transfers.

Explore using GAM to manage Google Workspace users, including updating, renaming, deleting and undeleting accounts, suspending and unsuspending users, and moving them between organizational units for automated provisioning and offboarding.

Explore how groups enable scalable permissions and communications in Google Workspace, comparing standard groups with groups for business, and cover admin console management, audience groups, dynamic groups, and policy limits.

Compare admin console groups with groups for business in Google Workspace, highlighting audience and dynamic groups, DLP and email routing rules, and the collaborative inbox feature.

Learn how to create, edit, and manage Google Workspace groups, assign owners and permissions, control who can join or view, and use an everyone group for organization-wide announcements.

Learn how target audiences use groups to simplify sharing in Google Workspace, enabling Drive and Docs access via HR teams and easing offboarding.

discover how dynamic groups work in Google Workspace, including creation, membership queries, and rules that auto add or remove users by department, while noting edition availability and practical workarounds.

Explore Google groups for business, from enabling group creation and configuring member permissions to managing conversations, delivery options, and collaborative inbox features for secure, scalable organization communication.

Explore Google Groups limits and policies to prevent abuse, focusing on message size and recipients, group creation, membership, and trial account restrictions.

Learn group-based control of Google Workspace apps and settings, including Google Meet access, Drive sharing, email routing, DLP rules, and group-based report filtering.

Learn how buildings and resources work in the admin console, create them, and leverage automatic room suggestions, insights, and reports to improve meeting productivity.

Learn to manage buildings and resources in Google Workspace by creating buildings with properties, adding resources under them, and configuring features and categories so resources appear globally in calendars.

Create plant one building with floors and address, add a planning department meeting room resource with capacity and features like a 62 inch led screen, and enable calendar-based room release.

Create calendar events with rooms and guests, selecting features like Jamboard and whiteboard, and learn how to enable room suggestions. Analyze room usage with insights and reports to optimize resources.

Export resources and bulk add buildings or rooms using a CSV template; download, edit, and upload resource data in the admin console to create multiple rooms and assign features.

Enable automatic room suggestions in Google Calendar by configuring work location and structured resources in the admin console.

Access the room insights dashboard to analyze utilization, identify underutilized and overutilized rooms, and generate reports on popular rooms and peak booking times for management.

Explore organizational units in Google Workspace, learn to create and modify OUs, and manage licenses and application settings with hierarchical inheritance.

Access and manage organizational units in the admin console, create OUs under the root or other units, and move users between them, with warnings about services and inheritance.

Learn how to control automatic licensing with organizational units in Google Workspace, including default licenses, overrides for specific organizational units, and billing views for resellers or direct Google billing.

Learn to manage apps and settings by organizational units in Google Workspace, disabling Hangouts for users except the CEO office and IT, and add a finance disclaimer for outgoing messages.

Explore core applications management with a focus on Google Drive, covering sharing settings including link sharing, shared drives, approvals, templates, and transfer ownership for departing employees.

Configure Drive and Docs sharing settings in Google Workspace, including service status, organizational unit and groups overrides, target audiences, external sharing, and access checks to safeguard data.

Explore managing Google Drive sharing with trust rules in Google Workspace enterprise, migrating from standard sharing to a flexible, group-based, rules-driven policy.

As a super administrator, manage all organization shared drives from the admin console, including member access, item cap, and data loss prevention settings, with restore and reorganization options.

Enable migration settings to move users' files from personal drives to shared drives. Use transfer ownership to reassign a departing user's files to an admin, with status updates.

Explore features and applications in Google Drive, focusing on offline access, Drive backup and sync, Drive for desktop, docs/sheets/slides plugins, and Drive SDK access; tailor settings for users and groups.

Explore template management and activity dashboard in the admin console for Google Drive and Google Docs: configure template categories, submission controls, and viewing history to manage privacy and collaboration.

Explore Google Drive approvals to route requests, lock files during review, and configure cross-organization settings, and manage labels to classify content with batch and standard labels and auto-apply rules.

Explore Gmail settings and email management in Google Workspace, covering offline access, pop and IMAP, security, authentication, anti-spam, routing, and compliance controls.

Explore end user settings in the Google Workspace admin console for Gmail, including smart features, themes, delegation, offline access, and confidential mode to optimize end-user experience.

Explore setup and end-user access in Google Workspace, including Gmail status, BigQuery email logs for enterprise users, and end-user controls for POP, IMAP, forwarding, and external recipient protections.

Explore how dkim signs emails with a private key and uses a public key in dns for validation. Learn to generate a dns text record and selector in Google Workspace.

Learn to manage Gmail quarantine in Google Workspace, including default and custom quarantines, inbound and outbound denial options, notifications, and group-based admin access.

Explore Gmail email routing options, including default routing and domain-wide routing, and implement split delivery and catchall rules for migration and forwarding.

Create internal host destinations, map them to IP or DNS names, and use single or multi-destination hosts for load-balanced email routing in default routing and compliance rules.

Learn advanced Gmail routing in Google Workspace, including routing scope for senders or receivers, exclusions, catch-all rules, quarantine, and envelope filters with pattern matching and group membership.

Learn to configure Google's SMTP relay service to send domain emails from apps and devices. Choose between IP whitelisting or SMTP authentication with TLS for ports 25, 465, or 587.

Explore safety and anti-spam settings in Gmail for Google Workspace, including spoofing protection and IMAP view time protection. Configure actions, spam aggressiveness, quarantines, and whitelists to protect users.

Configure the blocked senders list in Google Workspace to block domains or email addresses, add bulk entries, and optionally define an allow list with authentication, ensuring blocked traffic is rejected.

Configure Gmail DLP settings for content, attachment, and objectionable content compliance, and learn to create rules that scan emails and attachments.

Explore customizing calendar and directory sharing, and tailor user settings across departments in Google Workspace. Preview meet and chat, Google Sites, and groups for business, and test settings safely.

Explore Google Workspace calendar management, including sharing and integration with Gmail and chat, and learn to configure external and internal sharing, manage events, and calendar interop.

Explore directory management in Google Workspace admin by configuring directory settings, profile editing restrictions, sharing and visibility options, domain shared contacts, directory sharing, and custom directories tied to organizational units.

Google Chat and Meet admin settings, including smart features, archiving, external sharing, chat invitations, spaces, and Meet safety, quality tools, and host controls.

Administrators learn to manage Google Sites by controlling create/edit access, sharing through Drive, and configuring custom URLs with domain DNS mappings.

Configure groups for business by setting who can create groups, privacy and viewing permissions, owner privileges, external access, directory visibility, and the email suffix to distinguish user-created from admin-created groups.

Explore the remaining core apps in Google Workspace, including Cloud Search, Google Vault, Jamboard, Keep, and migrate tasks and work inside, noting some apps are deprecated or merged.