Google Workspace administration: OUs, groups, security and offboarding

For IT staff who run a Google Workspace organization in the Admin console: organizational units and inheritance, groups and configuration groups, enforcing 2-Step Verification, Drive external sharing and shared drive defaults, admin roles and protecting super admins, propagation time, audit and investigation, password resets and sign-out, and offboarding (transfer, suspend, delete, restore, recover files).

Level: Intermediate
Length: About 55 minutes
Contents: 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
Status: Published · updated 2 Oct 2026

Google Workspace

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Skills you'll practise

Predict which setting a user gets from the organizational unit tree and configuration groups
Enforce 2-Step Verification with a sensible enrollment period and method policy
Configure external Drive sharing (on, off or allowlisted domains) for the right OUs
Delegate work with prebuilt or custom admin roles and keep super admin accounts for rare use
Offboard a user in the right order: secure, transfer data, then delete, knowing the restore and recovery windows
Use the audit and investigation tool to answer who-did-what questions

Course outline

1.Google Workspace administrationVideo · 2 min
2.Structure: organizational units, groups and rolesLesson · 18 min
3.Security settings: 2SV, Drive sharing and app accessLesson · 17 min
4.Accounts: resets, sign-out and offboardingLesson · 18 min
5.Google Workspace administration: OUs, groups, security and offboarding: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 15 questions
6.Final exam11 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

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