Turn on Meet meetings for your organization

You can turn on Google Meet meetings, manage advanced features, or make someone else in your Google Workspace account an administrator to help you perform Meet management tasks.

Turn on Meet meetings

When the Google Meet service is on, users in your organization can:

• Create and join Meet meetings in Google Meet. 
• Use Meet in the integrated Gmail experience, if your organization uses Gmail. Learn more about integrated Gmail.

Note: Users can still use other conferencing services when Meet is turned on.  

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  AppsGoogle WorkspaceGoogle Meet.
3.  Next to Service status, click the Down arrow .

4. To turn a service on or off for everyone in your organization, click On for everyone or Off for everyone, and then click Save.

5. (Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:

   1. At the left, select the organizational unit.
   2. To change the Service status, select On or Off.
   3. Choose one:
      • If the Service status is set to Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
      • If the Service status is set to Overridden, either click Inherit to revert to the same setting as its parent, or click Save to keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
        Note: Learn more about organizational structure.
6. To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to turn on a service for a group.

Changes can take up to 24 hours but typically happen more quickly. Learn more

A Meet conference link is automatically added to all new Google Calendar events for users that can create Meet meetings. Admins can disable automatic Meet conference links for all new Calendar events, or users can adjust the conferencing preferences for their account.

Note: To learn how disabling Meet impacts users in your organization, see Turn off Meet meetings for your organization.

Manage Meet safety settings

You can control who can join meetings in your domain and which meetings your users may join. For details, go to Manage Meet safety settings. 

Grant access to manage Meet settings (optional)

Make someone else an admin to help you perform Meet management tasks in your Google Admin console. This way, if you’re busy or on vacation, someone else can help with tasks. 

For example, you can create and assign a custom admin role that includes Google Meet, and assign the role to a user.

You need to be a super admin to give a user access to the Meet admin settings. You create a custom admin role with the Manage Meet Settings privilege and then assign that role to the user.

Tip: You can also grant access to Organizational Units or Groups so the admin can help limit access to advanced Meet features, such as recording. 

Create a custom Meet admin role

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  AccountAdmin roles.
3. Click Create new role.
4. Enter a role name and description and click Continue.
5. Under Admin console privileges, go to Google Meet and check the Manage Meet Settings box.
6. Click Continue, review your changes, and then click Create Role.
7. Click Assign users.
8. Search for and select the users that should have admin privileges. If you can't find the user in the list, see Find a user account.
9. Click Assign Role.

Assign an existing custom admin role to a user

1. From the Admin console Home page, click Users.
2. Click the user’s name to open their account page. If you can't find the user in the list, see Find a user account.
3. Click Admin roles and privilegesAssign roles.
4. Next to the role name that includes the Manage Meet Settings privilege, click Turn on .
5. Click Save.

If you manage Meet for an education organization...

If you are managing Meet for an education organization, there is some additional information available to you. Go to Set up Meet for distance learning.

Related topics

• Assign specific admin roles to a user
• Pre-built administrator roles
• Create custom administrator roles
• Administrator privilege definitions

Review HIPAA compliance

Organizations subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) should review HIPAA Compliance with Google Workspace and Cloud Identity.

Related topics

• Manage Meet meeting settings
• Control video conferencing for Calendar events
• Turn off Meet meetings for your organization

User settings

• Adjust video conferencing preferences
• Add or remove a video conference from your Calendar event