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 in your organization can:
- Create and join video 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 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
Google Workspace
- 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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(Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:
- At the left, select the organizational unit.
- Select On or Off.
- Click Override to keep your setting if the service for the parent organizational unit is changed.
- If Overridden is already set for the organizational unit, 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.
Allow users to use their phone in a meeting. Events and invitations will include a phone number for guests to join meetings by phone, or you can use a phone for audio in a video meeting.
You can also allow paid dial-in and dial-out calls with numbers from additional countries/regions. For details, see Set up Meet global dialing.
(Recommended) If you're managing call settings for Meet, you may also want to try Google Voice for your cloud phone systems. For more information, go to Manage Google Voice in the Admin console.
View Meet feature availability in your organization
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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
- 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.
Related topics
Protect video meeting quality
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:
