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Google Shared Drives Management

Using the GAT Unlock features within GAT+, you are given in-depth controls for Google Drive Shared Drives across the entire domain.

Overview of Shared Drive Management

Analyzing domain Shared Drives #

In GAT+ navigate to Drive audit from the menu on the left

From the top menu bar select Shared Drives –  View all the Shared drives across your domain.

Select the one you want to edit and click the Shared drive operations button

There are two options:

  • Settings management 
  • Members Access management

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Settings management #

This allows you to change Shared drive sharing settings to:

  • Admin privileges required for Sharing ( Yes  / No )
  • Sharing only inside the domain ( Yes  / No )
  • Sharing only with drive members ( Yes / No )
  • Only contributors can download, copy and print ( Yes / No  )
  • Sharing folders requires ‘Manager’ permission ( Yes / No  )

Click on Apply and the changes will take effect.

Sharing settings for Shared drive will be changed according to the selected options.

Members Access Management  #

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In Drive management, the options are:

  • Add permissions (users)
  • Remove permissions (users)
  • Replace existing permissions (users) from the selected Shared drive.

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Add permissions #

The actions for Add permissions ( users ) are:

  • Add users as Contributors, Viewers, Commenters, Managers, Content Managers, and Remove other permissions

Remove permissions  #

The actions for Remove permissions ( users ) are:

  • Remove users as Contributors, Viewers, Commenters, Managers Content managers, Remove all external contributors, Remove all external viewers and Remove all external commenters.

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Replace permissions  #

The actions for Replace permissions ( users ) are:

  • Replace existing permissions on the given Shared Drive. For example: From dave@domain.com as Manager to jane@domain.com as Content Manager. Replace existing permissions on the given Shared Drive.

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Fill in the details of the changes you would like to make and click on Next.

Summary of permission changes #

In the Summary view, you can see all the changes that will occur.

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Security officer approval #

Click on Send request for approval by Security Officer.

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Result #

When it is approved the changes will be applied and changes will occur. The progress can be viewed in the Admin log from where it also can be reverted.

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When we find and view the Shared drive we can see that the changes were applied.

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