G Suite is designed to address your team's collaboration and communication needs. In this chapter, you will learn how to use Calendar to its fullest potential, allowing teams to share calendars, send reminders, find the best time for a meeting, and reserve the ideal place for it.
Real-time communication is also essential for a modern team. To that end, Hangouts allows you to host chats and video conferences with up to 25 members, while Google Drive allows teams to share files with up to 200 people and host up to 50 of them to collaborate in real time on a single document, spreadsheet, or presentation.
Social media is very popular these days, so we will learn how to set up a private social media platform for our domain using G+ so your team can use it to grow ideas and projects internally, or engage with customers externally.
Sometimes your team needs an intuitive email address, such as support@, sales@, or contact@, and to be able to trust that that message will be seen by the right people. In this chapter, you will learn the settings you need for groups to facilitate the routing of messages to groups of users.
Sharing information is a basic need in a team, but doing it safely is hard without the right technology. In this chapter, you will learn how to set up Google Drive so that your team can share files or collaborate on documents in real time using Google Docs, a full office suite in the cloud, meaning you don't need to install additional software to use it or worry about data being stored on devices.
Let's walk through the administration setup, so that you'll be able to do the following:
- Configure Calendar for Business
- Configure Google Groups
- Create and administer private G+ communities and collections
- Enable real-time communication and collaboration with Hangouts
- Search, share, and collaborate with Google Drive