E005: Contextual awareness, presentation and background privacy controls, DFS name change, Questions from the field and more!

Welcome back! We have a tightened up intro, a well planned out agenda, and some great announcements coming soon, so here we go! This week has some super helpful updates, as well as some fun stories, and our first audience questions which we had a ton of fun answering. You will also hear of course about some of our favorite resources, as well as our analysis and predictions for the future of work. Enjoy!

To all those who subscribed and are back for more, we appreciate you! To all of you who are here for the first time, welcome and we hope you stick around!

Last week’s updates

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - January 29, 2021

In this week's blog post Google recognized they forgot to publish last week's Recap.  We heard from the team that manages the updates blog:  “your podcast is the only reason we realized it didn't get published a few weeks ago”. So cool!

Silent Releases

None these last two weeks

Published Releases

Better privacy when screen sharing with muted web notifications


Out of office information will now display when replying to or mentioning a user in a Google Docs comment


Control background replacement in Google Meet with a new Admin setting


Indirect membership visibility and membership hierarchy APIs now generally available

Other Topics

Drive File Stream gets renamed to Drive Desktop

A silent release in the sill formerly named Drive File Stream release notes

BeyondCorp Enterprise

Pricing (Pending if this will always be in addition to Cloud Identity Premium / Enterprise)

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