Extended to all G Suite customers to use advanced Google Meet features until September 30, 2020

What’s changing

Last month, Google announced that all G Suite customers (G Suite Basic, Business, Education and Nonprofit) can use premium features for free. Google Meet until July 2020. But now, Google has extended this offer to date September 30, 2020 to ensure businesses, organizations and educators continue to do their jobs during this crisis.

Additionally, Google removed the word Hangouts from the name of Google Meet. You'll start to see this change reflected in the product and across resources over the next few weeks.

Who’s impacted

Admins and end users

Why it’s important

Google hopes this extension makes it easier for our customers to operate during this crisis. Google also recognizes that as work and learning are increasingly done remotely, it's even more important to maintain security and control across your organization.

Getting started

Admins: If you haven't already, turn on Video calling for your organization. You can then enable live streaming and recording.

• G Suite Basic, Business, and Nonprofit customers: These advanced features are OFF by default and can be enabled at the domain, OU or group level.
• G Suite for Education customers: These advanced features are OFF by default and can be enabled at the domain, OU or group level. 
• G Suite Enterprise and Enterprise for Education customers: These features are already available in your domain and will continue to respect your current settings.

End users: Once enabled in the Admin Console, end users can live stream and record meetings. Visit the Help Center to learn more about live streaming and recording meetings.

Deployment speed

• Free access to advanced features is now available to all G Suite customers (Google Workspace customers).

Availability

• Available to everyone

Source: Gimasys