G Suite

Google is rebranding its productivity suite and releasing a couple of new features too.

For the past half-decade or so, Google has been trying feverishly to crack the enterprise market with its cloud and productivity application. While the company has made some serious in-roads, with its cloud services growing and the adoption of its productivity suite, Google Apps, often becoming the preferred choice for small companies, Microsoft still rules the roost for the productivity market.

Javier Soltero, ex-boss of Outlook, is now running G Suite for Google. The appointment is an opportunity to reboot G Suite to take on Office 365 and make up some of the ground that's been lost in the last five years using the "new brush sweeps clean" principle. In other news, Microsoft bought Mover to acquire its migration connectors that move files into SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, including files from Google Drive.

PowerApps, Slack, and G-Suite migration tools; this month was filled with new Office 365 updates that you need to know about.

Microsoft has started rolling out its new G-Suite migration tools to make the process of moving from Google's to Microsoft's productivity suite, a lot easier.

A question none of us like to think about too much is what we would do if a natural or man-made disaster took out Office 365 and disrupted service for an extended period. The good news is that the way Microsoft has built out Office 365 into datacenter regions helps to limit the effect of any outage, but the fact still remains that something bad could happen. What would you do then?

Microsoft plans to deliver new migration tools to move Google G Suite email, contact, and calendar data to Office 365 (which means Exchage Online) by Q2 2019. The new tools are likely to move from the existing implementation built around the antique IMAP4 protocol, which only covers email and is prone to throttling by Google.

Google is working to make it easier to use Windows with G-Suite and may soon enable the ability to login to Windows with G-Suite credentials.

Google is rolling out one of its largest updates ever to G-Suite and at the same time, is chipping away at the unique features that were previously only found in Office 365.

Google is taking a big step forward with G Suite to make it so that you no longer need to use Office while using the cloud service.

Google is starting to fuse security into its productivity suite in a similar way that Microsoft has done with Office 365.

In today's Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to create additional calendars for people and resources with structured resource data.

Google has made several improvements to G-Suite that make it easier for organizations that use both Google Calendar and Microsoft Exchange Server to integrate and maintain functionality across the two platforms.

Google has announced a new feature for G-Suite, called Hire; the service makes it easier to streamline the recruitment process for new employees.

Office 365 users and admins might not be familiar with appointment slots but as with most things G Suite, it is a well-implemented feature that can be mastered in minutes.