Google Workspace Essentials Starter

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/workspace/unlock-collaboration-with-google-workspace-essentials

by twapi • 4 years ago

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dtrizzle• 4 years ago

No Gmail.

brnt2• 4 years ago

Doesn't every Google account, work or private, not already come with access to these?

agentdrtran• 4 years ago

It comes with less than a Google account — this is designed to be used in conjunction with Exchange.

sascha_sl• 4 years ago

For a second I thought they might provide a product for all the people recently kicked off the formerly "Google Apps" Gmail.

Sad to see this is the exact opposite.

mattoso5• 4 years ago

Will Google allow former G Suite legacy free edition choose the Workspace Essentials?

x3sphere• 4 years ago

Probably but it looks like this is lacking Gmail access among other things. It’s in no way comparable to the G Suite product.

breakingcups• 4 years ago

I was more worried about having to migrate all my Drive documents, shared folders, etc. etc. than migrating my email tbh. It may be hubris, but migrating email seems like a solved problem whereas untangling years of "Who created this folder? Who has the rights to add me again on a different account? Do I need to transfer ownerhsip of this folder so it keeps existing?" felt like a lot of manual labor.

shthed• 4 years ago

I don't understand why they don't just provide a regular Gmail account with a custom domain.

Many people used Gsuite for this and didn't care at all about any other Workspace features.

vertis• 4 years ago

I just cancelled the subscription on a paid GSuite/Workspace account. The administrator account doesn't go away, and you can select "Cloud Identity" and get some level of user management for free.

It will be hard to know how this impacts on things like peoples Play Store purchases within the context of Workspacex. Thankfully I'm not in that position.

Although I have a GSuite Legacy Free Account (in addition to a paid one), I haven't been running it for family and it's primarily been for email (which is now moved to Fastmail).

I understand most of the hassles are when you're using it as a primary account.

mattoso5• 4 years ago

Now I guess the answer is NO.

According to Google Workspace Support on Twitter "there’s no connection between Google Workspace Essentials Starter and the G Suite legacy free edition, it is therefore, not a transition option.”*

Does this make sense to anyone? Why not allow former legacy users to migrate to this new free plan?

* https://mobile.twitter.com/AskWorkspace/status/1489469620985...

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