What Are Google Workspace Users: Getting Started
Understand exactly what a “user” is in Google Workspace and how you are billed for them.
In this section, we will help you to add, update, suspend, restore, and delete users. That’s not all – you will also learn how to control users’ security settings, reset passwords, and more.
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Understand exactly what a “user” is in Google Workspace and how you are billed for them.
Create managed Google Workspace user accounts for people you work with.
Create multiple managed Google Workspace user accounts in one go.
Add extra email addresses to your Google Workspace users at no extra cost.
Narrow down the users list so that it shows precisely what you want to see.
Quickly locate user accounts and their individual settings in the Google Workspace Admin console.
Remove a managed Google Workspace user account that you no longer need.
You can reactivate a deleted user account within 20 days of the deletion.
Completely shut down a user account without deleting it.
Reactivate a suspended user account.
Download information about your users to a spreadsheet.
Update a user’s name or email address.
Change a user’s profile picture.
Add specific information about users, such as employee ID or job title.
Create custom attributes to store any type of information about your users.
Check how much storage someone is using.
To use Google services, users need licenses – see how to view and update them.
See a list of all Google services a user is allowed to access.
See a list of all third-party apps connected to a user’s account and revoke access.
View and update a user’s administrator privileges.
Manage a user’s group memberships and view, add, edit, remove, or update roles.
Prevent a user’s contact information from being shared with others in the Directory contacts list.
View and manage a user’s mobile devices.
View and manage a user’s Google Currents profile.
Prevent users from changing their passwords on their own.
Change a Google Workspace user’s password.
Change multiple users’ passwords in one go.
Force a user to change their password the next time they log in.
Force multiple users to change their passwords the next time they log in.
Add or update a user’s recovery email address or phone number.
Disable a user’s Login challenge temporarily so that they can log in.
Log out a user’s account from all sessions and delete cookies.
Check if users have enabled two-step verification or not.
Turn off a user’s two-step verification.
Generate codes used to bypass the default two-step verification method.
View and revoke app-specific passwords.
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