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Manage meeting rooms efficiently with automatic room release and room insights: We want to help organizations make the best use of their space. To do that, we’re consolidating all features related to managing buildings and resources in a single dedicated place in the Admin console. We’re also introducing two new tools, room release and room insights, to help you understand your organization’s resource utilization and optimize occupancy. A single destination for building and resource management All features related to managing buildings and rooms are now united in a new and more prominent entry point in the Admin console called “Buildings and resources.” You can access this directly from the home screen or via Directory > Buildings and Resources in the navigation menu. Room release based on event declines According to an internal study, up to 40% of rooms are booked but go unused. To help your users reclaim those unused rooms, we’ll now automatically free up meeting rooms when all but one of the guests has declined the Google Calendar invitation. When the room is released, the event organizer will receive an email informing them of the change and suggesting that they reschedule or delete the meeting. You can enable this feature for structured rooms in the Admin console by navigating to your resources and selecting the rooms you wish to enable for room releases. You then need to click "EDIT" and turn Calendar-based room releases on for your selection. Please note, room release is only available for G Suite Business, Enterprise, Enterprise for Education, and Education editions and can only be enabled for structured rooms that are categorized as “CONFERENCE_ROOM.” Room insights dashboard We’re also adding a new dashboard in the Admin console for room insights. Here, you can see data such as: * The most and least frequently booked rooms * The usage and bookage rates of rooms across time zones and various room sizes * How many rooms could be freed up automatically with Calendar’s room release feature You can filter this data by building, floor, room, room capacity, room features, or time period for more granularity. With these reports, you can make better decisions about improvements to your workspace. They provide signals on where to investigate further. Some examples of insights include: * What are your most popular rooms? * Are your rooms under-utilized or over-utilized? * Which room sizes are most popular? * Which equipments drive room usage? Which A/V equipment should you invest more into? * When are the best times to schedule repairs and maintenance work? * At which times are rooms most booked, and can you educate members of your organization to shift the times when they schedule meetings? You can access this dashboard in the Admin console in the “Buildings & resources” section. With this launch, we’re also adding a new admin privilege, “room insights,” to grant other admins or your dedicated facilities managers the right to only view this dashboard and other resources. Please note, this data is only available for structured resources. Launch Details Release track: Both features launching to both Rapid Release and Scheduled Release Editions: * Room insights: available to all G Suite editions * Room release: available to G Suite Business, Enterprise, Enterprise for Education, and Education editions only Rollout pace: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) Impact: Admins and end users Action: Admin action suggested/FYI More Information Structuring resources * Help Center: Set up buildings, features, and other resources * Help Center: Switch to structured resources * Help Center: Impact of using structured resources * Detailed Guide: Structuring Google Calendar Resources Room release * Help Center: Release unused rooms Room insights * Help Center: See how meeting rooms are used Launch release calendar Launch detail categories Get these product update alerts by email Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates http://dlvr.it/QdbDxG #Adminconsole #GoogleCalendar #RapidRelease #GOOGLE #GSUITE

Propose a new meeting time in Google Calendar: Rescheduling in Google Calendar just got easier. We’re introducing a new feature that enables more efficient meeting scheduling. Now, each guest invited to a meeting can propose a new time and the organizer can easily review and accept time proposals. This allows for richer communication between attendees, reduces time spent on meeting practicalities, and makes meetings more productive with key stakeholders in attendance. When a user is invited to a Calendar event, they can respond “Yes,” “No,” Maybe,” and now, “Propose a new time.” If calendar access permissions have been granted, guests can see the other attendees' availability side by side, so they can suggest a time that works for everyone. Guests can then send their time proposal along with an optional message to the organizer, who can accept the proposed time with just one click. This functionality works across domains and with Microsoft Exchange. Guests can send proposals to organizers using Exchange, and organizers can receive proposals from guests using Exchange. Available on the web now, this is coming to mobile on August 13th, so your users can act while on the go. For more information, check out the Help Center. Launch Details Release track: Launching to Rapid Release, with Scheduled Release coming on August 13th Editions: Available to all G Suite editions Rollout pace: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) Impact: All end users Action: Change management suggested/FYI More Information Help Center: Respond to event invitations Launch release calendar Launch detail categories Get these product update alerts by email Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates http://dlvr.it/QdFL1d #GoogleCalendar #RapidRelease #GOOGLE #GSUITE

Google Home can now read your imported and iCal calendars

Multiple calendar support on Google Home has been available since last November, but the feature has been limited, but it still wasn’t complete as importing calendars was unavailable at the time.That part has recently changed. Now you can share your Apple calendar with your Google Calendar and get it as part of your daily briefing.

If you head over to your Calendar section in the Google Home app (under More settings), you should find a list of all your personal and shared calendars, plus the ones you've imported via a URL or iCal. All those public sports events or the family/school/community calendars you may have added, they are now accessible from Google Home.

Once turned on, you can ask your Google Home about your next meeting, your events for the day, or your calendar for any other specific date, and it will include these calendars in its answer.

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Google Calendar now gives guests the power to suggest a new meeting time


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