Service News Category: UW Google Workspace Changes
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IMPORTANT: Budget Planning for UW Google Shared Drives over 100GB limit
November 28, 2023
A version of this message was sent to managers of affected UW Shared Drives on November 28, 2023. What is happening? Because your UW Google Shared Drive exceeds the 100GB limit, we want to remind you that you’ll need to purchase additional storage space before June 11, 2024. Our contract with Google now has system limitations that will require deletion of any UW Google Shared Drive that exceeds 100GB starting November 2024.IMPORTANT: UW Google Shared Drives that are over the maximum…
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Storage quotas coming to UW Google June 2024
November 7, 2023
Users whose UW Google storage currently exceeds 80GB received a version of the following on Tuesday, November 7, 2023. What is happening? As initially announced in June 2021, Google has implemented major changes to their Google Workspace for Education product.Among other changes, Google has moved to a shared storage pool. We are sharing this information to encourage you to prepare and find alternative solutions for data storage. Learn more about Google’s new storage policy.Google’s shift to shared storage for Google Workspace…
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ACTION REQUIRED: Use of UW Google with Shared UW NetID ends August 29, 2023 (Reminder #5)
July 27, 2023
A version of this reminder message was sent to owners and administrators of Shared UW NetIDs with a UW Google account on July 25, 2023. Messages included a customized list of Shared UW NetIDs, owned or administered by the recipient, and associated with UW Google services. What is happening? Due to changes to the UW Google service, the use of UW Google with Shared UW NetIDs will be eliminated, effective August 29, 2023. Owners and administrators of Shared UW NetIDs must…
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ACTION REQUIRED: Use of UW Google with Shared UW NetIDs ends August 29, 2023 (Reminder #4)
June 28, 2023
A version of this reminder message was sent to owners and administrators of Shared UW NetIDs with a UW Google account on June 27, 2023. Messages included a customized list of Shared UW NetIDs, owned or administered by the recipient, and associated with UW Google services. What is happening? Due to changes to the UW Google service, UW Google will be removed from all Shared UW NetIDs, effective August 29, 2023. Owners of Shared UW NetIDs — recipients of this message…
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ACTION REQUIRED to preserve content in UW Google Shared Drives (Reminder #1)
May 11, 2023
A version of this message was sent to affected audiences on 5/2/2023. Please note: These changes affect only UW Google Shared Drives. These changes do not affect your consumer Google Drive or personal UW Google Drive. What is happening and when UW Google Shared Drives (Shared Drives) that do not have a current UW employee with a UW email address in the Manager role have been restricted beginning March 22, 2023. (The Manager role is the highest level of…
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ACTION REQUIRED: Use of UW Google with Shared UW NetIDs ends August 29, 2023
A version of this reminder message was sent to owners and administrators of Shared UW NetIDs with a UW Google account on April 25, 2023. Messages included a customized list of Shared UW NetIDs, owned or administered by the recipient, and associated with UW Google services. As communicated in March 2022, due to changes to the UW Google service, the use of UW Google with Shared UW NetIDs will be eliminated, effective August 29, 2023. The UW Google service includes YouTube, among other frequently…
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Action required to preserve content in UW Google Shared Drives
February 21, 2023
A version of this message was sent to affected audiences on 2/14/2023. Additional audiences will receive this message on 2/28/2023. Please note: These changes affect only Shared Drives. These changes do not affect personal UW Google Drives. What is happening and when UW Google Shared Drives (Shared Drives) that do not have a current UW employee with a UW email address in the Manager role will be restricted beginning in March 2023. (The Manager role is the highest level of…
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Major changes coming to UW Google Shared Drives
January 31, 2023
A version of this message was sent to users of UW Google Shared Drives on Wednesday, January 25, 2023. What is happening and when UW Google Shared Drives (Shared Drives) that do not have a current UW employee with a UW email address in the Manager role will be restricted beginning in March 2023. (The Manager role is the highest level of permissions in a Shared Drive.) You will still be able to view and download existing files in restricted…
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Storage quotas coming to UW Google June 2024
August 1, 2022
Users whose UW Google storage currently exceeds 80GB received a version of the following on Tuesday, July 26. What is happening? As initially announced in June 2021, Google is implementing major changes to their Google Workspace for Education product. Among other changes, Google is moving to a shared storage pool. We are sharing this information now so that you may prepare and find alternative solutions for data storage. Learn more about Google’s new storage policy. Google’s shift to shared storage…
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Use of UW Google with Shared UW NetIDS ends August 29, 2023
June 28, 2022
A version of this reminder message was sent to owners and administrators of Shared UW NetIDs with a UW Google account on June 28, 2022. Messages included a customized list of Shared UW NetIDs, owned or administered by the recipient, associated with UW Google services. Note: The date for discontinuation of use of Shared UW NetIDs, originally announced as September 5, 2023, has been moved to August 29, 2023 to avoid overlap with the Labor Day holiday and beginning of…