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Google Workspace Beginners Guide

Getting Started With Google Workspace

The complete beginner’s day 1 guide to Google Workspace administration

Getting Started With Google Workspace

Getting started as a Google Workspace admin has never been a more effortless experience. 

We will take you through the complete onboarding process step by step.

You will:

  • Learn the difference between the difference Google Workspace account editions
  • Register a new Google Workspace admin account
  • Complete the initial Google Workspace setup:
    • Protect your domain by following the instructions on the Google verification page
    • Activate email delivery to Gmail by adding DNS records to your hosting account
    • Create your first managed Google Workspace user account.
  • Learn how the free trial period works
  • See how to access the Google Workspace apps
  • Get introduced to your Google Admin panel, also known as the Admin console
  • See how to contact Google Workspace support
  • Get introduced to the basics of your account’s billing system and manage payment settings
  • Learn the basics of domain management
  • Learn the basics of user management
  • Get introduced to the concept of organizational units
  • See how to import emails, calendars, and contacts from other services to Google Workspace
General Features and Settings

General Account Management

General Google Workspace Account Management

This training features general concepts and settings, as well as information that mainly concerns Super Admins. If you don’t know, a Super Admin is an administrator with complete control over a Google Workspace account.

You will:

  • Start with an introduction to Google Workspace’s billing system and payment plans
  • See how to view and update billing information and settings in your account
  • Learn how many domains and subdomains Google Workspace allows you to add to a single account
  • See how to handle any domain-related management task, such as adding or removing domains
  • Learn how to add more admins to your account by creating and assigning admin roles to users
  • See how to create an admin user account completely free of charge
  • Personalize your account and services by adding your company logo, creating custom service web addresses, and more
  • Set up general preferences for access to new products and features, email communication from Google, and language and time zone settings
  • Address legal matters and ensure you are compliant with laws and regulations that apply to your organization
Security Management

Google Workspace Security Management

Google Workspace Security Management

Account security and data protection are nothing less than crucial for business users.

This training will introduce you to all general Google Workspace security settings and features and show you how to configure them.

We will help you ensure you take full advantage of Google Workspace’s account and data protection potential.

You will:

  • Learn how to control account recovery settings
  • See how to regain access and log back into an admin or user account if you get locked out
  • See how to create a secure password
  • Set up password policies for Google Workspace users, such as setting an expiration date, preventing password reuse, and more
  • Learn how to prevent users from changing their passwords
  • See how to reset users’ passwords – one by one or in bulk
  • Learn about Google’s built-in login verification feature and see how to make it stronger or disable it
  • Get introduced to two-step verification and see how to allow or prevent users from setting it up
  • See how to enable or disable two-step verification and configure any related settings
  • See how to enforce two-step verification so that users can not turn it off
  • Get introduced to the Google Workspace admin alert center
  • See how to enable or disable pre-made or custom admin alerts
  • Get introduced to the concept of “less secure apps” and control related settings
  • Control third-party app access to Google Workspace data
  • Get introduced to single sign-on (SSO) and see associated settings
  • View information about privacy and security standards and certifications


The training-introduction page you will go to if you click the button below also contains links to other security features and settings scattered throughout the other guides.

Google Workspace has so many security options that putting them all in one place would have been too much.

Users and Data Management

Google Workspace Users and Data Management

Users and Data Management

This beginner-friendly training is about two core parts of Google Workspace.

First, we will show you how to handle anything related to user account management. After that, we will ensure you know how to take care of your organization’s data.

You will:

  • Get introduced to the concept of managed user accounts
  • Learn how to create and manage user accounts, view information about them, and control their security settings
  • Get introduced to Google Workspace organizational units and see how to create and fill them with users
  • See how to control contact sharing, profile editing, and directory settings
  • See how to restore deleted Gmail, Google Drive, shared Drive, Calendar, and Contact data
  • See how to transfer emails between user accounts
  • See how to import emails, calendars, and contacts from other services to Google Workspace
  • Learn how to export user data from a single user account or all Google Workspace users at once
  • Get introduced to Google Vault
  • See how to use Google Vault to retain email, Drive, and other data for as long as needed
  • See how to search and export data with Google Vault
  • Learn how to view reports and event logs with information about Google Workspace usage
  • Merge or split Google Workspace accounts
Services Management

Google Workspace Services Management

Google Workspace Services Management

This guide will teach you how to handle anything related to Google Workspace service management for your organization.

You will:

  • Find out how to control access to core Google Workspace services
  • See how to control access to additional Google services
  • Learn how to control access to Google Workspace marketplace apps
  • See how to manage Google Drive data
  • See how to manage Drive settings and features for users in your organization
  • Get introduced to shared drives and see how to create and manage them
  • Learn how to manage Google Calendar data
  • Learn how to manage Calendar settings and features for users in your organization
  • Get introduced to buildings and resources and see how to create and manage them
  • See how to manage Google Chat settings and features for users in your organization
  • Learn how to manage Google Meet settings and features for users in your organization
  • See how to connect a Google Sites website to your domain
  • Manage Google Sites settings and features for users in your organization
  • Manage Google Currents settings and features for users in your organization
Email Management

Google Workspace Email Management

Google Workspace Email Management

This beginner-friendly walkthrough will teach you how to handle anything related to Google Workspace email management for your organization.

You will:

  • See how to enable or disable access to Gmail settings for your organization
  • Configure email delivery rules such as restricting email communication, allowing or blocking senders, adding compliance policies, forwarding, adding a catch-all email address, and more.
  • Those of you who use multiple email services will see how to configure more complex email delivery settings
  • Find out how to prevent your Google Workspace emails from being marked as spam
  • See how to add SPF and DKIM records
  • Learn how to configure email settings related to spam, such as whitelisting, quarantining spam, and more
  • Get introduced to the concept of phishing, and see what you can do to prevent it
  • Get introduced to the concept of spoofing, and see what you can do to prevent it
  • See how to add a DMARC record
  • Enable advanced protection settings to enhance your users’ email safety
  • See Google’s SMTP server info
  • See Google’s POP and IMAP server info and control access to POP/IMAP
  • Connect your Google Workspace email to third-party software and applications such as Outlook or Apple Mail
Google Groups Management

Google Workspace Groups Management

Google Workspace Groups Management

This guide will teach you how to handle anything related to Google Workspace groups management for your organization.

You will:

  • Get introduced to Google Groups, find out how they work and how you can use them
  • Get started with the basics, such as creating, joining or leaving groups, adding email aliases, and more
  • Find out how posting to groups works and what you can do with group posts
  • See how to control account-wide groups settings that apply to all Google Workspace groups
  • See how to control a specific group’s settings related to access and visibility, features, the user interface, emails, and moderation
Mobile Management

Google Workspace Mobile Device Management

Google Workspace Mobile Device Management

This walkthrough will teach you all you need to know about managing mobile devices and tablets and applying tons of different settings in the Google Admin console.

You will:

  • See how to add a Google Workspace account to an Android or iOS mobile device or tablet
  • See how to allow or prevent people from adding their Google Workspace accounts to mobile devices
  • See how to require approval to allow people to add user accounts to mobile devices
  • Enable Google Workspace mobile device management for Android and iOS devices
  • Go step by step through setting up your Apple Push certificate for iOS device management
  • View a list of all managed mobile devices
  • Learn how to export device details, block or wipe devices, and more
  • See how to apply universal security settings for mobile devices, such as requiring passwords, encryption, and more
  • Add company-owned Android and iOS devices
  • Manage Android work profiles
  • Control a wide range of settings for Android devices related to app management, users and accounts, apps and data sharing, device features, lock screen features, networks, and more.
  • Control an even wider range of settings for iOS devices related to account configurations, app management, Apple apps, security, authentication, backup and iCloud sync, connections, data sharing, device features, the lock screen, keyboard, networks, photos, and Safari
Google Chrome Management Icon

Google Workspace Chrome Browser Management

Google Workspace Chrome Browser Management

This training will teach you how to manage Chrome browser policies for Google Workspace users.

Chrome policies apply to users who sign in to the browser or use a manually enrolled browser. Most policies work on all kinds of devices.

You will:

  • See how to enable cloud reporting for managed browsers to get information about Chrome usage, apps and extensions, and more
  • Learn how to enroll a Google Chrome browser as managed manually
  • Manage Google Chrome apps and extensions – specify what users can and can not install, force-install apps and extensions, and more
  • Control Google Chrome security settings – control user sign-in, incognito mode, password saving, manage users’ browsing history settings, block access to specific sites, enable safe browsing, and more
  • Control settings related to the user experience in Chrome – add pages to load on startup, manage the home button, bookmarks bar, search bar, enable or disable form auto-fill, pop-ups, notifications, cookies, images, JavaScript, printing, and more

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