From the course: Google Workspace Administrator Associate Cert Prep

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User account management overview

User account management overview

Welcome back everyone. In this session, we are going to focus on one of the most essential and basic day-to-day tasks for any Google Workspace administrator, the user account management. Simply put, this is all about creating, updating, suspending, deleting and securing user accounts, the individual identities people use to access Google Workspace services like Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Meet, and others. Think of Google Workspace as your organization's digital hub. It is where your team collaborates on documents, communicates via e-mail and chat, stores files, and much more. Just like you need individual keys to access different parts of a physical office, each person in your organization needs their own digital key to access their individual Workspace resources. And that is what a user account is. User account management encompasses everything from initially setting up a new employee within their e-mail address and access to critical services such as shared drives, to updating their…

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