Hey everyone,

I'm an admin for a school and we're trying to figure out the best way to clean up student Google Drives. Specifically, we want to find and remove things like .exe, .zip, and other potentially risky files.

I've looked in the Admin Console and Google Vault, but I'm not seeing a good, scalable solution. Going through each student's drive manually isn't an option. Vault seems more for finding files for eDiscovery than for actually deleting them.

Has anyone found a good way to do this? Is there a built-in tool I'm missing, or do most of you use something else, like a third-party tool or GAM script?

I'd appreciate any advice on the best workflow for this. Thanks!

What are the requirements and limitations involved in transferring ownership, and what steps should be followed to ensure that all permissions and data integrity are maintained during the process?

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for a way to manage app policies in bulk and was wondering if I'm missing something obvious. I'll admit I'm getting tired of the manual work!

The situation is that I have dozens, maybe even hundreds, of third-party apps that I need to set policies for. Going one by one in the Admin Console to set permissions like allowing some, blocking others, and limiting access for different OUs is incredibly tedious and time-consuming.

So, my question is: How do you handle bulk app policy management in your domain?

• Do you manually set policies for each app? What's your workflow for new apps that get added?
• Are you using a script with GAM to automate this?
• Do you us

Need to figure out how to get a report on all the Google Drive stuff a specific employee has downloaded.

Seems like the Admin console's audit logs don't really give you the full picture on individual file downloads, right? Or am I just missing something obvious?

Anyone ever had to dig into this? What did you use? Any tools or tricks that worked (or didn't work) for getting that download info for a user?

Thanks a ton in advance for any pointers!

I know I can curate the Play Store and use OUs or groups to control access, and I can move the student into a different OU if needed. I was just wondering if there’s a simpler or faster way to block an app for one student without changing their whole setup. How are you handling this?

Is there a way to bulk remove suspended user accounts in Google Workspace? Something like a “Remove All Suspended Internal Users” option would be super helpful!

For those of you running Google Workspace for your school or company, what strategies or tools do you use to keep things organized? Especially around onboarding/offboarding users, managing permissions, and keeping security tight

Hey, quick question. One of my users deleted a bunch of files from Drive… then went and emptied the trash. I know I can restore stuff from the Admin console within 25 days, but is there a way to check exactly what was deleted before I restore everything? Don’t wanna bring back a ton of junk if I don’t have to

Hi, I want to run an audit on my company’s Google Drive files and folders to see if any are set to ‘Anyone with the link,’ and then bulk revoke that access. Any ideas?

Hey everyone, another great question from an admin who's facing a common, but tricky, Google Drive issue.

The scenario is a familiar one: a user leaves the company, and you need to clean up their data. They've created a complex folder structure in their My Drive, and you need to get everything moved to a shared drive or another user.

The big problem is that this isn't just about moving the folder, it's about managing all the permissions and ownership at the same time.

Here's the full wish list from the admin:

• Transfer Ownership: Take ownership of a specific folder and all its files/subfolders from User A and give it to User B.
• Remove Old Owner: Remove User A (the previous own

Hey everyone, new community here!

One of the first questions we got from an admin was a classic: "How can I tell which users in my domain have enabled email forwarding?"

We all know the scenario. A user leaves, and you need to make sure their mailbox isn't forwarding sensitive info to a personal account. Or maybe you're just doing a security audit and need to know where mail is going.

The frustrating part is that the Google Workspace Admin Console doesn't seem to have a straightforward report for this. You can check individual users, but if you have a few hundred (or thousand!) users, that's not a practical solution.

After some digging, it seems like the most effective way to do this

Hi all, I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to tell when a specific calendar event was created.
Not when it's scheduled for, but the actual timestamp of when the event was first added to the calendar.

Is this possible through the Admin console, audit logs, or some other method you’ve used?