What’s changing?
Google are introducing simplified controls for meeting access in Google Meet. These will replace the existing Quick access meeting settings and the admin setting to turn Quick access on or off by default will be removed. This update will begin rolling out on July 17, 2023.
From a Google Calendar invite or Google Meet itself, meeting organizers will now be able to pick from the following three levels of access:
Open:
- Anyone with a meeting link will be able to join your meetings.
- No one will have to ask to join.
- Anyone can dial in.
Trusted:
- Anyone within the meeting hosts’ organization will be able to join without having to ask to join (AKA knocking).
- Anyone outside the organization but invited via a Google Calendar event, or anyone invited from within the meeting, will also be able to join without having to ask to join.
- Anyone can dial in.
- Everybody else will have to ask to join.
Restricted:
- Only someone who is invited via a Google Calendar event or someone invited from within the meeting by a host will be able to join.
- Everyone else will have to ask to join, including participants inside a host’s organization who aren’t included on the invite, and those dialling in.
Additionally, meeting hosts can configure whether guests can join the meeting before hosts.
Information can be found on the Glow Connect Knowledge Hub article https://glowconnect.org.uk/docs/google-workspace/meet-chat/
Additional info from Google https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2023/06/simplified-access-controls-for-google-meet.html
