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The google workspace tag on WindowsForum.com covers recent changes and enterprise implications of Google's productivity suite, including Gmail, Drive, Docs, and Sheets. Discussions highlight migrations away from Workspace, such as a university moving alumni to Microsoft 365, and the default enablement of Workspace Intelligence for Gemini features across Gmail, Drive, Docs, Calendar, and Chat. Other threads examine automation via Workspace Studio, the removal of the Gmail Ask Gemini button for certain AI subscribers, the rollout of Gemini Spark in India, and third-party integrations like Grok. Enterprise AI competition with Microsoft 365 and potential connector reauthorization requirements for Gemini Enterprise are also recurring themes, offering practical insights for IT administrators and mixed-platform organizations.
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    Google Sheets Adds Box-and-Whisker Charts With Excel Import and Export Support

    Google Sheets now has native box-and-whisker charts, and it no longer drops them when you import an Excel file. That is the useful part for anyone who moves workbooks between Google's spreadsheet and Microsoft's. What changed Sheets now natively supports box and whisker charts, a statistical...
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    Intune Can Require Google Workspace Sign-In on Corporate Android Devices

    Running Microsoft Intune for device management and Google Workspace for email and documents usually means two identity systems on the same phone. On Android, that has caused some confusion about which account the device actually uses. Microsoft has now added an Intune setting that requires users...
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    BitTitan MigrationWiz Speeds SharePoint and OneDrive Moves as EWS Retirement Nears

    Anyone who has ever babysat a multi-terabyte tenant-to-tenant migration over a long weekend knows the quiet dread of watching a progress bar stall at 83 percent while SharePoint Online or Google Drive takes its sweet time indexing nested folders. For managed service providers (MSPs) and...
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    Smollan Moves 9,064 Users From Microsoft 365 to Google Workspace in 547-Day Migration

    Most enterprise migration stories go the other way: a company moves from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365, or from on-premises Exchange to Exchange Online. This one runs in reverse. Smollan, the South African retail services group, says it has finished moving its whole organisation from...
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    Gemini Connected Apps Add 14 Partners, Mostly for US Personal Accounts

    On September 23, 2026, Google began rolling out 14 more third-party Connected Apps for Gemini. They are Airtable, Linear, monday.com, PandaDoc, Wispr AI, Zoho, Adobe, Picsart, Squarespace, Webflow, apartments.com, Experian, Peloton and SeatGeek, and once connected they can be used from inside a...
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    Google Gemini Notebook Rolls Out Mobile Audio Recorder

    Google is rolling out a set of Gemini Notebook study features that combine mobile note capture with AI-generated review material. The changes include an audio recorder in the Android and iOS app, live spoken conversations with a notebook, interactive Learning Overviews, expanded quiz formats...
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    Microsoft 365 Forwarding Can Receive Ex-Staff Reset Emails

    Google Workspace administrators are explicitly told they can assign a departed employee’s old address as an alias for a current user, meaning mail sent to that address will continue arriving in somebody else’s inbox. Microsoft 365 offers equivalent continuity through forwarding or shared...
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    Microsoft 365 vs Google Workspace: The Real ROI Test

    A Microsoft 365-to-Google Workspace move is often framed as a subscription-price decision. That is too narrow, especially for organizations built around Windows PCs, Microsoft identity and device-management practices, desktop Office workflows, telephony, analytics, and compliance controls. A...
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    Google Account: Revoke App Access, Not Just Uninstall

    Deleting a mobile app does not tell Google to revoke the app’s access to your account, and it does not erase the account relationship a service created when you used “Sign in with Google.” The correction is simple but important: uninstalling removes code and local data from a Windows PC, Android...
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    Google Workspace Setup Imports Only 10 Microsoft 365 Users

    Google Workspace now places a Microsoft 365 import path inside its first-run setup flow, allowing a new Workspace tenant to discover Microsoft users and copy selected data without starting in the separate migration console. For a very small organization, that can mean creating Workspace accounts...
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    Google Chat Imports Teams History Free, but Not Files

    Google Workspace administrators can now use Google’s Data import service to copy Microsoft Teams channel conversations, group chats, and one-to-one chats into Google Chat without buying a separate migration product. The capability reached general availability for large-scale workloads on August...
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    Teams Ends Google Workspace Calendar Sync in October 2026

    Microsoft is preparing two Teams changes that pull in opposite directions for browser users and Google Workspace customers: a compact call window is slated to arrive for Teams on the web in September 2026, while calendar synchronization between Teams and Google Workspace is scheduled to stop in...
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    Microsoft 365, Google: Data Cannot Prove Self-Hosting Halved

    A new measurement of popular domains finds Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace receiving inbound mail for 38.6% of domains with published MX records, while the share classified as self-hosted stands at 22.4%. For Exchange Online administrators, the practical message is less about a contest...
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    Microsoft 365, Google Host MX for 38.6% of Top Domains — Megathread

    Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace now receive mail for 38.6% of the popular domains measured in a new DNS-based study, while the share running their own mail servers has fallen from 44.6% in 2016 to 22.4% in July 2026. For Windows administrators, that is a concrete warning: email remains...
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    Claude Now Sends Gmail Emails and Trashes Drive Files

    Anthropic’s Claude can now connect directly to Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive, allowing it to search work data and carry out selected actions from a Claude conversation. The consequential change is write access: Anthropic’s current Gmail connector page says Claude can draft, send...
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    NAU Alumni Google Accounts Closed Without Microsoft 365 Move

    Northern Arizona University has begun retiring Google Workspace accounts and is moving active student email and file storage to Microsoft 365, but the immediate consequence is more severe for former students and employees: their NAU Google accounts were closed on August 4, 2026, without a...
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    Google Workspace Intelligence Enables 4 Sources by Default

    Google Workspace’s Workspace Intelligence is enabled by default for supported tenants, allowing Gemini features to actively retrieve relevant context from Gmail, Drive and Docs, Calendar, and Google Chat. That is a real governance change worth auditing—but it did not arrive quietly this week...
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    Google Workspace Studio Automates Gemini Notebook Sources

    Google has begun rolling out an “Add a source to Gemini Notebook” action for Google Workspace Studio, giving organizations a way to feed text, Google Drive files, YouTube links, and web URLs into a Gemini Notebook as part of an automated workflow. The important limitation, largely lost in early...
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    Gmail Ask Gemini Button Removed for Google AI Pro and Ultra Users

    A reported remark from Thibault “Tibo” Sottiaux, OpenAI’s Codex lead, captures a familiar Gmail complaint: open the service after an absence and a new control seems to have appeared in the upper-right corner. But the evidence points to a more complicated — and more consequential — reality than...
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    Gemini Spark Rolls Out in India as Always-On Workspace Agent

    Google’s Gemini Spark is moving from an I/O preview into a more practical test of always-on consumer AI: a cloud-hosted agent designed to keep working on Gmail, Docs, Sheets and connected services after a laptop is shut or a phone is locked. Reporting from TechnoSports Media Group and South...