Set up Google Meet for your organization
Set up Google Meet for your organization
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How can Meet help you?
When Google Meet is on, users in your organization can start a meeting from a browser, a mobile phone, or a Google Calendar event that includes a video meeting link. Users can also start or join video meetings in just one click from Gmail on their desktop.
Turn on Meet and set up features
Note: Changes can take up to 24 hours to propagate to all users. In the meantime, some users might not be able to access video calling.
Meet is turned on for all organizations by default.
When the Google Meet service is on, users will be able to create and join video meetings in your organization.
Note: You can still use other video conferencing services when Meet is turned on.
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Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).
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From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps
G Suite
- Next to Service status, click the Down arrow
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To turn on or off a service for everyone in your organization, click On for everyone or Off for everyone, and then click Save.
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To turn on or off a service only for users in an organizational unit:
- At the left, select the organizational unit.
- Select On or Off.
- To keep the service turned on or off even when the service is turned on or off for the parent organizational unit, click Override.
- If the organization's status is already Overridden, choose an option:
- Inherit—Reverts to the same setting as its parent.
- Save—Saves your new setting (even if the parent setting changes).
Learn more about organizational structure.
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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.
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From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps
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Click Meet video settings.
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To apply the setting to everyone, leave the top organizational unit selected. Otherwise, select a child organizational unit or a configuration group.
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Click Stream.
- Check the Let people stream their meetings box.
- Click Save.
Changes typically take effect in minutes, but can take up to 24 hours. For details, go to How changes propagate to Google services.
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From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps
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Click Meet video settings.
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To apply the setting to everyone, leave the top organizational unit selected. Otherwise, select a child organizational unit or a configuration group.
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Click Recording.
- Check the Let people record their meetings box.
- Click Save.
Changes typically take effect in minutes, but can take up to 24 hours. For details, go to How changes propagate to Google services.
View Meet feature availability in your organization
To make sure advanced Meet features, such as recording and live streaming, are only available to specific users, view the settings that are turned on or off for a specific user, Google Group, or organizational unit.
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From the Admin console Home page, go to Apps
- Click the Meet video settings section to expand it.
The Meet settings page shows the features that are turned on or off for that user, group, or organizational unit. - On the left, select an option.
- To search by username, click Users and search for the username. Meet settings can’t be changed for an individual user. Instead, add them to an organizational unit or a group that has the correct Meet settings.
- To search by group, click Groups and search for the group name or email address. To turn a Meet feature on or off for that group, click a setting name, change the setting, and click Override.
- To search by organizational unit, click Organizational Units and select or search for an organizational unit. To turn a Meet feature on or off for that organizational unit, click a setting name, change the setting and click Override.
Changes typically take effect in minutes, but can take up to 24 hours. For details, go to How changes propagate to Google services.
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Train your users to use Meet
After you set up Meet in your organization, share these training resources to help users get the most out of Meet:
