Over the next few days, you’ll notice a new activity stream in Drive. When you open Drive, click the “Details and activity” button (ⓘ) on the top right corner and the activity stream will appear, showing you who has taken action on files and folders in My Drive. You’ll see a rundown of what your team has been doing, such as editing and commenting on notes, adding a new spreadsheet, renaming a presentation, etc. If you select a specific file or folder, the stream will change to show you specific information about that item.

Release track:
Scheduled release

Editions included: 
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government

For more information:
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/3323935
http://googledrive.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-new-activity-stream-in-drive-shows.html
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We have found that some Chrome extensions come bundled with malicious programs that try to hijack your browser settings. To help keep your browser settings under your control we added a “reset browser settings” button to Chrome’s settings page in October.

Despite this, settings hijacking remains our number one user complaint. To make sure the reset option reaches everyone who might need it, Chrome will be prompting Windows users whose settings appear to have been changed if they’d like to restore their browser settings back to factory default. If you’ve been affected by settings hijacking and would like to restore your settings, just click “Reset” on the prompt when it appears.

Note that this will disable any extensions, apps and themes you have installed. If you’d like to reactivate any of your extensions after the reset, you can find and re-enable them by looking in the Chrome menu under “More tools > Extensions.” Apps are automatically re-enabled the next time you use them.

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Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government

For more information:
http://chrome.blogspot.com/2014/01/clean-up-your-hijacked-settings.html
http://chrome.blogspot.com/2013/10/dont-mess-with-my-browser.html
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Starting January 29th, you will be able to give a name to Hangouts video calls in Google Calendar events. This name makes it easier for you and other guests to join the video call. Note that this feature is only available to domains that have enabled Google+ Premium Features.

Release track:
Scheduled release

Editions included: 
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government

For more information:
https://support.google.com/a/answer/4362302

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Vault admins have had the ability to put an entire user account on hold to preserve messages in that account. Over the next few days we are releasing a feature that will give admins the ability to also have the option to target specific messages—for example, by date or with certain terms—for indefinite preservation in Vault.

Editions included: 
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government

For more information:
https://support.google.com/vault/answer/4359587
https://support.google.com/vault/answer/2473591

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The new sign-in page that was announced last November will be rolling out over the next four weeks starting today. With this change, the sign-in page for all Google Apps customers will be updated to be consistent across all Google Apps services. In other words, the sign-in page for Gmail will now be identical to the sign-in page for Google Calendar, Google Drive, or any other Google Apps service. This change will improve security and make it easier for users to switch between accounts. This means a few things for your organization:

The Google Apps sign-in page can no longer be personalized with colors and custom logos. It will now look the same across all Google sign-in pages
Users will have to log in with their full email address (example: joe@company.com)
For SSO domains with a network mask, users will be presented with the new Google sign-in page when they log in from outside the SSO network mask. This change does not affect SSO domains without a network mask.

Editions included: 
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government

For more information:
https://support.google.com/a/answer/4421331
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Over the next few days, you’ll notice a new activity stream in Drive. When you open Drive, click the “Details and activity” button (ⓘ) on the top right corner and the activity stream will appear, showing you who has taken action on files and folders in My Drive. You’ll see a rundown of what your team has been doing, such as editing and commenting on notes, adding a new spreadsheet, renaming a presentation, etc. If you select a specific file or folder, the stream will change to show you specific information about that item.

Release track:
Rapid release

Editions included: 
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government

For more information:
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/3323935
http://googledrive.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-new-activity-stream-in-drive-shows.html
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Over the next few days we’ll be rolling out a new feature that will suggest users’ Google+ connections as recipients, along with their traditional Gmail contacts, when composing a new email. Your email address isn't visible to a Google+ connection unless you send that person an email, and likewise, that person’s email address isn’t visible to you unless they send you an email.  Importantly, if someone outside a your Google+ circles sends you an email this way, you can decide whether you want to receive more emails from that person.

This feature if off by default. Domain administrators will have the option to control the availability of this feature through a new setting in the Admin console under Google Apps > Gmail Settings > End User Settings. If this feature is enabled in the Admin console, users can control whether people outside their circles can reach them with a new setting in Gmail. They will be able to choose from Anyone on G+, Extended Circles, Your Circles and No one.  The default setting will be ‘Anyone on Google+’.

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Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government

For more information:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/reach-people-you-know-more-easily.html
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