Google Apps admins get more control over Hangouts

November 22, 2013

Google Apps now offers administrators more IT controls over Hangouts, the communications tool that includes IM, audio chats and video conferencing. Now, employees will be able to call up their company's Apps user directory, called the Global Address List, from within the Hangouts interface, according to Google. Apps administrators now have the ability to offer a partial set of Hangouts features to end users, instead of giving everybody full use of the tool. "Admins can now choose to limit Hangout chat messages to being internal-only, set chat history to off by default and decide whether users within the domain can contact each other without sending or accepting formal invitations first. Video and audio chat can also be turned off across the organization," wrote Ronald Ho, a Google Apps product manager, in a blog post. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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