As an admin, you can perform management actions for any space in your organization using the Space Management tool. The Space Management tool provides management features for all spaces in your organization without requiring you to be a space manager or member.
To access the Space Management Tool, Chat must be enabled for your account and you need the Manage Chat and Spaces conversation privileges. Super admins have the manage chat and spaces privilege by default. Admins can grant these privileges to users with admin roles.
To enable Chat, follow our set up guide. If this is your first time using the space management tool, please read About the space management tool.
Manage spaces in the Admin console
To manage spaces in the admin console, start by logging in to the admin console and selecting the space to manage.
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Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.
If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.
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Go to Menu
Apps > Google Workspace > Google Chat.
Requires having the Service Settings administrator privilege.
- Click Manage Spaces.
Add space members in the Admin console
- Hover over the space you want to add a user to, and click Manage space.
- Click Add.
- Enter the group name or the emails of the users in your organization you want to add, then click Add.
Remove a space member in the admin console
- Hover over the space you want to remove a user form, and click Manage space.
- To the right of the user to be removed, click More
Remove from space.
Change member roles in the Admin console
Users in a space are either Space Managers or members. Space Managers have more privileges than members.
- Hover over the space you want to update member roles, and click Manage space.
- To the right of the user you want to change the role of, click More
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- If the user is a Space manager, click Change from space manager to Member.
- If the user is a member, click Make a space manager.
Copy space member emails
You can copy all the email addresses of members within a space, this is useful if you want to send a space-wide email message.
- Hover over the space you want to add a user to, and click Manage space.
- In the upper-right, click
Copy member emails.
View the settings of a space in the Admin console
- Hover over the space you want to add a user to, and click Manage space.
- On the left, click Space settings.
View the details of a space in the Admin console
- Hover over the space you want to add a user to, and click Manage space.
- On the left, click Space details.
The details page includes information on the space’s description and guidelines.
Delete one of more spaces in the Admin console
This process is done from the Manage Spaces menu.
Note: If you have a lot of spaces, you can use filters to narrow your search.
- To delete a single space, Hover over the space you want to delete and click Delete space
Delete space.
- To delete multiple spaces, check the boxes to the left of the spaces to delete. At the top, click Delete selected spaces
