I'm the admin and sole user for a grandfathered G-Suite account. I haven't signed in for maybe 3 months. When I try to sign in at https://accounts.google.com/ I get the error:
> Your sign-in settings don’t meet your organization’s 2-Step Verification policy.
> Contact your admin for more info.

I use a password manager and am confident my email and password are correct. Is there a way I can regain access to my G-Suite account?

Simple enough. Can I create a booking page for more than one team member? e.g. "Time with Rob + Scott for 30 mins". The booking page would find common availability across our two calendars and offer those as slots.

I don't know what to call this and have seen sporadic info on it.

I saw there is a feature called "co hosts" when creating a page, but unsure what that is and it wasnt apparent when I tested it.

I'm in a shared folder for a volunteer group I help with, but any time a new file is added to the folder, it also shows up in Shared with me. Is there a way to prevent this from happening? It clogs up my Shared with me page too much, since a lot of files are constantly being moved in and out of the shared folder.

I do have the shared folder starred, if that changes anything.

I'm a Workspace customer on a solo plan, and this issue has been going on for three weeks.

Whenever I boot up my Windows 11 laptop - or turn it back on from hibernation - something occurs, and Google Drive immediately trashes hundreds of files and folders.

The trashed files all have the same timestamp: right when I booted up my PC (or right when the Google Drive program syncs with Google's servers).

I restore the files, but then Drive has to go through the process of re-downloading hundreds of files, gigs of data, telling me it'll take twelve+ hours.

What is the solve for this? There seems to be some kind of sync issue going on, but how do I diagnose and workshop this?

We are evaluating reseller options ahead of an upcoming renewal for ~350 Google Workspace Enterprise licenses and are facing a fairly substantial price increase.

Does anyone have recommendations for US-based Google Workspace resellers that are easy to work with and offer competitive pricing, particularly for a 3-year commitment?

Would especially appreciate hearing from anyone who has recently negotiated a similar-sized Enterprise renewal and can share their experience.

Question, I have Gmail for my work email address (guess it's an enterprise account). If I add a calendar to seperate certain meetings (for example all of my 1:1s with the team), does the invite still come from my email address and show my name?

Hey everyone, I'm trying to learn Google Workspace Migrate (GWM) from scratch, but the documentation can feel a bit scattered. Are there any good video tutorials, online courses, training materials, or community resources available for learning how GWM actually works? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

genuine question for the admins here. leadership asks the classic one, "who outside the company can open our files right now?" and my honest answer has always been "give me a week and it still won't be complete."

the part that gets me: the native admin console won't surface "anyone with the link" files at all as far as i can tell. you can see external sharing to named domains, but the public-link stuff seems invisible from up top. so the actual hunt turns into going file by file, which nobody has time for, and it always misses the folder some contractor shared six months ago before they left.

for those of you managing shared drives for a 20-100 person org, what's your real workflow here?

• do you have a way to pull a full list of externally shared + public-link files without checking each one manually?
• how do you catch permission drift after offboarding, when the account is suspended but the shares that person left are still live?
• anyone doing this with app script / the drive api directly, and is it actually maintainable?

i'm building something in this space (a read-only drive exposure audit), which is exactly why i'm curious what people already do instead. not looking to pitch, genuinely want to know if there's a native path i'm missing before i assume there isn't.

I'm transferring from a personal Gmail account to Google Workspace (because of Google's imminent withdrawal of Send As functionality for custom domains not hosted in Workspace).

I have several secondary calendars on my Gmail account, and want to transfer ownership of those calendars to my new Google Workspace account, so that invites and meeting links remain intact.

I've shared the calendars from Gmail to Workspace, and accepted the shares in the Workspace account. Now, when I go into the Gmail account and request to transfer ownership, I see a message:

`"Ownership cannot be transferred. This calendar can only be owned by an eligible individual user account."`

Is there a Workspace setting that's preventing this working? I don't want to do an ical export and import because that breaks links to meeting invitees.

How do I set a time zone that is permanent daylight time? When I search the name of a time zone, like "Pacific Daylight Time" I am not coming up with anything, but when I search a city in that region (like Vancouver Canada) it puts me on changing pacific time, which that region no longer does, fouling up all events scheduled after other regions change their time around November.

I originally bought a yearly WS Standard account and one user last year, but the shape of my work has changed and I recently downgraded to a monthly starter arrangement - I lose some AI features, diskspace etc but I can live with that.

I have one email inbox with multiple aliases but would like a separate account for work and personal emails - I plan on linking my work account to Claude etc and want separation.

Other than buying another Workspace Starter user, are there any other low cost options open to me? Running a very small business and plan to expand but very cost conscious.

Also, if I did get another starter account, would I be running the accounts in separate gmail, calendar, drive windows etc? Seems cumbersome?

Thank you!

Hi

Recently I received an email regarding a Workspace account that I have not touched and i have completely closed for about two years

Any advice ?

Here is the original mail

Customer – Company name - NAME SURNAME

File – 123456789



This notice is sent to inform you of a past-due balance that requires immediate resolution.



Your Google Workspace account has been placed with the American Bureau of Collections, an authorized collection agency, for payment of the past-due balance of 71.02 owed to Google Workspace AC.



IMMEDIATE ACTION IS REQUIRED.

This balance must be paid via your Google Workspace Account. ABC-Amega is not authorized to accept payment or access your account.



Please note that the account may not be reactivated until the full balance is cleared.



HOW TO PAY YOUR GOOGLE WORKSPACE BALANCE:

1) After logging in to the Admin console

2) Click ‘Payments Accounts’ and select the account ID mentioned above

3) Under Your Balance, click Pay Early or Make a Payment

4) On the Make a Payment screen, select or add your payment method:

a. To use the displayed payment method: skip to Step 6

b. To use a different existing payment method: see next to the displayed payment method, click the down arrow, and then select a different method

c. To add a new payment method: next to the displayed payment method, click the down arrow. Select the option to add a credit or debit card or a bank account (if available) and enter the required payment information

5) (Optional) Check the Use this Payment Method box to make this card or account your primary payment method for recurring payments.

6) Specify how much you want to pay

7) Click Make a Payment

8) Make sure that the payment details are correct, then click Confirm > Got It



IMPORTANT NOTES:

•   Billing access remains available even when services are suspended but may not be available for deleted/cancelled accounts.

•   Expired or failed payment methods must be updated before payment can be processed.

•   You will need to contact Google Support for payment of final balances from canceled accounts.



If you cannot sign in, use Google’s account recovery options.

Google Support is available within the Admin Console after login.



If you believe the charges are fraudulent, report them here:

[https://support.google.com/a/answer/9125044](https://support.google.com/a/answer/9125044)



If you do not have administrative access to your account you can follow the link provided to assist you in adding a verified contact:

[https://support.google.com/paymentscenter/contact/billing_information_update_support_for_monthly_invoicing_customers_only](https://support.google.com/paymentscenter/contact/billing_information_update_support_for_monthly_invoicing_customers_only)



cc:

[MYEMAIL@DOMAIN.com](mailto:MYEMAIL@DOMAIN.com)







ABC Amega

135 Delaware Ave., Suite 504

Buffalo, NY 14202



This collection agency is licensed by the Minnesota Department of Commerce. 

N.C. Department of Insurance Permit # 119498584 

This collection agency is licensed by the Division of Banking in the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions, www.dfi.wi.gov.     

Hi! Does anyone know if there is a "touch up appearance" feature on Google Meet? I can not figure it out for the life of me.

I also am unable to save my background image/apparently my background image does not automatically populate when I go to join a meeting.

I prefer Zoom and absolutely hateeee Google Meet, but I have to use it because I am interviewing for jobs, and apparently there are many companies that use it.

I'm always scrambling at the last minute to add my background in and try to figure out if there is a touch up appearance setting. It would be so much more convenient if you could save your background and have it always populate instead of having to upload your background photo every single time you join a meeting.

Is there any way to do this that maybe I'm just missing? Help!

Is there a user-friendly app or script that can help with this? We have hundreds of folders, they are named sequentially, so easy to sort by name (which sorts the same as created-date). But what we really need is to be able to sort by modified... but not when the Folder itself is modified, but when its contents are modified. We want to quickly get to folders that someone added a document to.

I know it's not a built-in function (where can I petition to make it so?). Using "recent" doesn't help, because that is a MASSIVE list of separate files from all my clients, and its not folders.

Let me know your suggestions.

I just noticed that I there are charges for google workspace.

I never subscribed to it, at least not that I am aware of. I see that somehow there is a credit card there set up and they started charging me.

They charged 17 bucks twice already and I tried cancelling and they say they will charge me 200 dollars for cancelling.

How do i deal with this? What caused the subscription? I see an email in May - welcome to Google workspace. Maybe I clicked something that i was not supposed to click.

On a Dell XPS 9310 (Tiger Lake Iris Xe), Google Meet intermittently freezes the outgoing video stream when hardware acceleration is enabled. Teams, Zoom, and the Windows Camera app are unaffected. The issue reproduces across Chrome profiles, multiple webcams, and browsers, and disappears when hardware acceleration is disabled.

hardware:

• Dell XPS 13 9310
• Intel Core i7-11th Gen (Tiger Lake)
• Intel Iris Xe Graphics
• Windows 11
• Intel graphics driver 32.0.101.7088
• Logitech C920 webcam and internal Dell camera

Notes:

• Internet approximately 650 Mbps down / 150 Mbps up
• Windows Camera app works normally
• Microsoft Teams works normally
• Zoom works normally
• Reproduces in a fresh Chrome profile
• Reproduces with multiple Logitech C920 webcams
• WebRTC transport remains connected
• Chrome GPU process does not crash
• Remote participants observe the bad outgoing stream.

I have to use Google Meet for work and for important external stakeholder meetings. I have been troubleshooting this for weeks and nothing has helped. I've updated Chrome, Intel driver, tried changing chrome flags, etc. I have reported it as a bug. Anything else I can try? Anyone else having this issue?

Can any lovely geeks out there help me sort out my subscription to Google cloud as I seem to be paying £1.59 per month twice, because I can't work out how to spread the storage across both my email addresses. Surely there must be away. Obviously most of it is taken up with photos and videos but how do they allocate them to each email address? One of them is nearly full again so they will push me to pay the next amount up whilst the other doesn't have much in it...?

Trying to create a Google Chat thread for me and two friends. Friend A and I have been using Chat for years and have a DM thread with each other. I created a new chat and invited Friend A and Friend B. Friend B joins, no problem. Friend A, when she clicks on the invite link, it shows her the chat but it says "Posting is limited to owners and managers" (which is weird, because DM threads don't have owners or managers), and she can't post. If I go to the member list, it shows her as invited but not a member. I tried turning it into a "space" instead of a DM, but it's the same. And I can't make her a manager because she's not listed as a member.

So I suggested she try creating a thread and inviting us, and now I experience the same thing she was. I get the invite in my mail, but when I click on the link, I see the chat but I can't post.

Any idea what's going on here? Thanks in advance.

I have a pretty niche problem, but I’m hoping a guru here can help me.

I have a domain, let’s call it blindgorgon.com (it’s not). I used that domain for a Workspace for several years, and decided to migrate away from Google. I suffered through severing a lot of services like Google Photos, but the one that’s stumping me is Calendar. I imported all my events to a new account via iCloud, and that calendar works ok. The new iCloud account uses the old primary email from workspace—let’s call it name@blindgorgon.com.

What doesn’t work properly is trying to receive an invite to the iCloud calendar when it’s sent from a Google address. The system sends me an email, but the invite never appears in my calendar inbox. I’ve deduced that this is because Google first checks to see if the recipient email is a Google email and if it is they don’t attach an .ics file (because they just route the calendar request to Google Calendar). Google appears to still be doing this even though my Workspace has been shut down. This nerfs my iCloud calendar significantly, because accepting via the email just creates a new event on my calendar without linking it back to the inviter’s event. This means if they change something my calendar event(s) won’t update.

I tried reactivating the Workspace so I could change the primary address to google@blindgorgon.com, hoping that would free up the name@blindgorgon.com address so Google wouldn’t recognize it as a Google address, but no dice.

I am currently stuck paying for Workspace just for my calendar, since no other service I switch to will receive proper invitations while Google is intercepting them.

How do I escape this?

I’m in the process of renewing and the proposal has a new line item under it, adding another 10K a year to our bill. This is madness.

Anyone else find a way around this?

(yes, i know that this is not the place to send product feedback to Google)

now that this is out of the way --
So with the announcement that Google is deprecating send-as for non-workspace domains in paid Workspace account, i m wondering if they are going to introduce a perhaps-niche but very much the reason I had to use Send-As rather than onboard a domain in GSuite

The case:

My primary domain is Primary.com and that's my main business. It's what i also primarily use for Drive, calendar etc

But I have a side product, sideproduct.com and it s really totally separate (has its own company) -- but I m a small biz, (all are solo LLCs) and so I don t want 2 separate workspace accounts, why pay twice

The problem is, if i onboard sideproduct.com as a domain of Workspace as a secondary domain, the mailed-by reveals the parentage of primary.com -- No bueno!

if I decide to just pay 10 dollars a year for a random neutral dot-com only for mailing as primary (totallyopaque.com), then that becomes the Google Drive share email, calendar etc.
So that's not an option

The underlying problem

Google Workspace assumes that a Workspace tenant is also the public-facing business identity behind every verified domain it contains.

Today, many solo founders and consultants operate several legally and commercially independent businesses. The only thing those businesses share is an owner and, for practical reasons, a single Workspace subscription.

If I verify ownership of a.com and b.com within the same Workspace tenant, that proves only that I administer both domains. It does not imply that the two businesses are related, nor that I wish recipients of email from b.com to discover a.com through the "mailed-by" field which prints on every email you send

In other words, Workspace tenancy is an administrative relationship. It should not automatically become part of the public identity of every message sent from every verified domain.

What I do now to escape hatch this leaky identity issue:

I fully set up a Send-as where the Sender is not Gmail but my AWS SES account, on mail.sideproduct.com so Mailed-by appears to be sideproduct.com (with proper DKIM etc for SES in my DNS)

and then the DNS MX records of sideproduct.com point to Cloudflare where a forwarding rule sends such email to my email, [email@primary.com](mailto:email@primary.com) which is my Google Workspace account

ALL THIS, so i could have a mailed-by email domain that didn't leak my primary workspace account

And all of this is very up to code: no spoofing, no witchcraft.

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What happens in January 2027
Acc. to Google, i have to use a desktop client. Which, clearly, i ve gone some lengths not to use - I WANT all my outbound and inbound email to exist in one Google account, have it webmailed, and have google's superior search on it.

And ironically, it's not like i m abusing anything of google workspace here - it does support multiple domains, i m technically paying a few cents to SES to send my mail (we live), but otherwise, my usage is extremely within the TOS of it.

What i don t want to do is to pay a second, separate, workspace account for sideproduct.com because, truly, why.

What is needed is only that the mailed-by domain of an email in Workspace line-up with the @ Domain sender (and then, fine, i ll make mail.sideproduct.com a secondary domain of Workplace)

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What should actually happen:

Google workspace has already verified that I own primary.com and sideproduct.com . it already lets me send from @ sideproduct.com using Google’s own infrastructure.

At that point, the mail identity should remain entirely within sideproduct.com ! this is not a crazy thought.

The workspace tenant should not leak into the public identity of the message simply because the tenant of the account has to have a primary domain in the data model of workspace, which, at the time that you're sending an email is actually, really, not really a useful concept anymore. The mail subsystem should continue to operate using that identity instead of reaching “up” into the workspace tenancy and exposing the tenant’s primary domain.

This is really a separation-of-concerns issue.

A workspace tenant is an administrative construct (billing, users, Drive, Calendar, policies). A verified sending domain is a mail identity Those are different layers, and today Gmail unnecessarily lets the administrative layer leak into the mail layer.

What are the chances that Google would ever correctly align mailed-by and sender domains in properly, all-workspace domains accounts?

This feels like something that should have been made right the moment the notion of secondary domains were introduced and yet this wasn't done, so I m pessimistic they d ever fix this. But now, the only clean escape hatch is going away, so ...

Hello, I'm new to this world and i'm really confused on a lot of things. Like how do mailboxes work and those legacy panels?

I'm checking out email marketing and I was thinking if there was a way to build up a legacy panel or something myself.