Hangouts Chat provides a safe and convenient way for members of your organization to send written messages to other users, groups, or even virtual rooms with a capacity of up to 8,000 members dedicated to a single project or topic.

To find Chat settings, take these steps from the administrator homepage:

1. Select Apps
2. Click on G Suite
3. Select Hangouts Chat

The History Settings page allows you to set chat history storage to ON or OFF by default, but allows users to change it for their own account. Alternatively, you can also enforce the same policy for everyone so that users cannot change it:

In the Bots settings, you can allow users to install and use bots. Depending on the G Suite Marketplace settings for this domain, users may be able to use any bot, or may be limited to a previously approved list:

Hangouts will be at the core of users' real-time communications. In the next section, you will learn about Google Drive, which will be at the core of users' real-time collaborations.