Managing Google Workspace Part 1: Core Services, Additional Services and Marketplace Apps

Preamble:
This space will be utilized to synthesize my notes and help improve my learning process while I study for the Google Workspace Professional Administrator certification. I will be doing a similar process for other certifications I work on in the future. Please follow along for Google Workspace notes and feel free to ask any questions or, if I get something wrong, offer suggestions to correct any mistakes.

Part 1

Google Workspace offers core services, additional services as well as Marketplace App services. A core service is one of the main software offerings of Google Workspace and is covered by the terms of service (support can be obtained). Some core services for Google Workspace are:

1. Gmail
2. Google Calendar
3. Google Drive and Docs
4. Google Meet
5. Many more...

An Additional service is a software offering that is included with a Google Workspace license, but is not covered by any terms of service (support is not offered via Google Workspace). Examples of Google Workspace additional services include:

1. Youtube
2. Blogger
3. Google Ads
4. Google Books
5. Many many more...

A Google Marketplace App are applications offered by 3rd party vendors that add additional functionality. These applications are also not covered by Google Workspace terms and any support will need to be accessed via the software vendor. Some popular Marketplace apps include:

1. Docusign
2. Lucid Charts
3. Evernote
4. Confluence
5. Many many many more...

Managing Services
All services within your Google Workspace tenant can be managed in the Google Admin Panel. To turn off Google Workspace Core Services go to the following location in the Admin Panel:

Apps> Google Workspace> Service Status

Once here you will see a list of services available to you in your Google Workspace tenant.

NOTE The list of services you see will largely be based on what licensing you have purchased.

Here you can add additional services, disable applications for all users or offer granular access using Organizational Units (OUs) or Google Groups.

An example of granular access may be that you do not want anyone within your Workspace tenant to be able to use Google Sites except for Executives. From this view you can disable Google Sites for the entire organization by turning it off in the top OU, and then overriding the setting for the Executives OU, re-enabling the service. You could also use a Google Group instead, however, please note, Groups cannot turn off services, but, if a user is located in an OU that has the service off, adding them to a Group where the service is allowed will allow the user to use the service.

This same goes for Additional Google Services as well as Marketplace Apps. You can find each of these in the Admin Panel by going to:

Additional Google Services: Apps> Additional Google Serices

Marketplace Apps: Apps> Google Workspace Marketplace Apps> App List

New Product Releases

Google Workspace has 2 Release Tracks:
Scheduled Release track (on by default): Gives new options/features at least 1 week after it was launched in Rapid Release.

Rapid Release track: Gives out new features as soon as possible. Features may not be fully complete or still have bugs.

Find these settings in Account> Account Settings> Preferences

This will conclude part 1 of Managing Google Workspace. Part 2 will list some important information regarding some of the most important Core Services with Google Workspace like Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Drive and Docs. Thanks for coming on the journey with me. As mentioned above, if you have any questions for me or if I made a mistake, please leave me a comment and I would love to correct it or answer your question.

Until next time everyone!