New version of Google Drive viewer

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As part of the new Google Drive, we are updating Drive’s viewer. The new viewer is faster, cleaner and provides easier ways to connect with third-party Drive apps. It also brings a unified viewing experience across Drive content and Gmail attachments. Note that as part of this change we will remove support for adding file-level commenting of non-Google file formats. This change doesn’t impact comments in Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, and existing comments on non-Google formats will be retained and available to view.

 

 

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release (rolling out gradually)

For more information:
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2423485

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New available contacts tab for Hangouts in Gmail

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With this launch, we are introducing a new tab to Hangouts in Gmail that shows a list of a person’s contacts sorted by availability, making it easier to see which contacts are currently online.

Available contacts (those with the green circle) will show in an alpha-ordered list first, followed by a second alpha-ordered list of unavailable contacts. Contacts can be hidden or pinned to the top of the contacts list regardless of their availability.

To access the new contacts tab, click on the person icon on the bottom of the Hangouts section.

Release track:

Rapid release, with Scheduled release coming in two weeks

For more information:

Help Center

Reference by: www.google.com

Search delegated contacts

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Contacts delegation allows enterprise users to delegate full access to the contacts in their “My Contacts” group without granting access to their mail or anything else in their accounts. This is a common delegation practice between some executive users and their assistants and may be used in any situation where a user wishes to share all of his or her contacts with another user.

To save users time when locating specific delegated contacts, we’ve now added search functionality. Delegates can search delegator contacts by selecting the delegator contact group in the navigation pane, and then searching.

Note that delegator contacts will not show up in the autocomplete drop down, or in searches when the delegator group is not selected.

 

Release track:

Rapid release and Scheduled release

 

For more information:

https://support.google.com/a/answer/2590392?hl=en

 

Reference by: www.google.com

 

 

Collaborator selection announcements in Google Docs, Slides, & Sheets (for visually impaired users)

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To make collaboration accessible to visually impaired users, information about nearby collaborators is now announced. For example, if a collaborator initiates a selection in a region overlapping the region where another user is editing, this would be verbalized to the collaborator.

Release track:

Rapid release and Scheduled release

For more information:

https://support.google.com/docs/topic/6039805?hl=en&ref_topic=1382883

 

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Gartner’s 2014 Magic Quadrant Report for Unified Threat Management (UTM)

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Gartner have once again positioned Fortinet as a leader in the Unified Threat Management (UTM) Magic Quadrant for 2014.

According to Gartner, “The Leaders quadrant contains vendors at the forefront of making and selling UTM products” and “Vendors in this quadrant lead the market in offering new safeguarding features, and in enabling customers to deploy them inexpensively without significantly affecting the end-user experience or increasing staffing burdens.”
Of course, the FortiGate Connected UTM platform supports the comprehensive set of security features you would expect from a market leading UTM solution: Firewall, VPN, IPS, Anti-malware, URL and Application control. But Fortinet’s relentless commitment to innovation takes the FortiGate Connected UTM to the next level. Integrated High-Density Switching (including PoE) and Wireless LAN eliminates the need to deploy standalone switches or wireless controllers, further simplifying your network deployment and reducing management costs.
With Fortinet’s strong commitment to channel and MSSP partners and backed by the award-winning FortiGuard Labs Threat Research team, FortiGate Connected UTM is the ideal solution for SMB and Distributed Enterprise.

Magic Quadrant for 2014.

Thirteen new UI languages in Gmail

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We’ve added thirteen new languages to the Gmail general settings language drop down, allowing users to view the Gmail UI in these new languages: Afrikaans, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Chinese (Hong Kong), French (Canada), Galician, Georgian, Khmer, Lao, Mongolian, Nepali, Sinhala, Zulu

 

Release track:

Rapid release, with Scheduled release coming in two weeks

 

For more information:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/17091?hl=en

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Replace image in Google Docs, Slides, and Drawings

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This feature provides the ability to replace an image in a document, presentation, or drawing with a different one without changing the general size, layout, and properties applied to the original image. This is useful for replacing images in templates.

 

Release track:

Rapid release, with Scheduled release coming in two weeks

 

For more information:

https://plus.google.com/+GoogleDrive/posts/acCDweSyKrA

https://support.google.com/docs/answer/97447#replace

Reference by: www.google.com

 

New ‘User Security Management’ privilege for delegated admins

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Currently there are a number of user security management features that are available only to super admins. To increase flexibility, our goal is to provide granular privileges so that some of these security features can be delegated to non-super

To that end, we have created a new privilege called ‘User Security Management’ that allows delegated admins to perform the following actions for a specific user:

  1. Enforce or disable 2-step verification for a given user
  2. Disable a user’s Login Challenge for 10 minutes
  3. Retrieve/revoke application specific passwords
  4. Retrieve/revoke 3-legged OAuth (3LO) tokens

In the past, delegated admins with any existing role with the ‘Users’ privilege were already able to disable 2-step verification for individual users. With this launch, these delegated admins will automatically get ‘User Security Management’ privileges to ensure they continue to have access to disable 2-step verification.

If an admin creates a new custom role, he/she will have the ability to selectively enable ‘Users’ or ‘User Security Management’ or both privileges going forward.

 

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release

 

For more information:
https://support.google.com/a/answer/1219251#user_security

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Browser upgrade notifications in Gmail

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Google’s long-standing browser support policy states that we support the current and previous major releases for modern browsers. In line with that policy, we will be making the following updates to our browser upgrade notifications in Gmail in the coming weeks:

Chrome (current version 35.x)

  • we will start showing the upgrade browser banner on v33.x and older, and will show the banner on versions two revisions behind the current stable build moving forward

Firefox (current version 30.x)

  • we will start showing the upgrade browser banner on v28.x and older, and will show the banner on versions two revisions behind the current stable build moving forward

Safari (current version 7.x)

  • we will start showing the upgrade browser banner on v5.x and older, and will show the banner on versions two revisions behind the current stable build moving forward

Internet Explorer (current version 11.x)

  • no change

 

For more information:
https://support.google.com/a/answer/33864?hl=en

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New version of the Gmail Android app

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A new version of the Gmail Android app is coming to Google Play. The launch includes:

  • Insert Google Drive files directly into messages
  • Improved autocomplete: start typing in the To, Cc or Bcc field and you’ll now get better suggestions, faster
  • Improved formatting support when restoring saved drafts

 

Release track:

Rapid release and Scheduled release (Note: these features will be rolling out over the next few days)

For more information:
Google+ Post
Get the Gmail Android app on Google Play

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