What’s changing
With this launch, the Google Meet link will be added to the location field when a Google Calendar user invites a user of a different calendar app (such as Microsoft Outlook) to a meeting with Google Meet. This helps users of other calendar services such as Outlook to easily find the Meet link when it's time to join by ensuring it doesn't get lost in the event details.
Additionally, Google Calendar now automatically detects Google Meet links in the description or location fields of invitations sent from other calendar apps. This makes it easier for users to join meetings and collaborate with people on different platforms.
Getting started
- Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
- End users: This feature will be on by default. No action is required, the improved meeting link visibility will happen automatically for new invites. Use our Help Center to learn more about how to invite people to your Calendar event.
Rollout pace
Availability
- Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts
Resources
What’s changing
When users copy or duplicate events in Calendar, the Meet conference won’t be copied over. This ensures that Meet access and meeting notes remain tied to the original event and its attendees. If the user intends to participate in the same Meet conference, they can copy over the Meet code separately.
UI mock showing the journey of duplicating an event and adding a specific Meet conference code
Why this is important
This change enhances meeting privacy, security and reliability by keeping the meeting code unique to the original event. This isolates each meeting, ensuring only invited guests can join and that artifacts like recordings and notes are shared exclusively to the correct participants. It reduces the current system ambiguity where a single code shared across multiple events can lead to misdirected information.
Getting started
- Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
- End users: This change will take effect automatically for users. There is no end user setting for this feature.
Rollout pace
Availability
- This update impacts all Google Workspace customers as well as users with personal Google accounts
Resources
Previous announcements
The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.
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