{"id":3514,"date":"2021-08-07T10:48:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T17:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2021-08-07T10:48:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T17:48:23","slug":"google-workspace-compare-groups-vs-organizational-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=3514","title":{"rendered":"Google Workspace: Compare\u00a0Groups vs Organizational Units"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How access groups work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Groups turn on user access to core services,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/a\/answer\/181865\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google additional services<\/a>&nbsp;(such as YouTube), and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/a\/topic\/7417510\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SAML applications<\/a>. Groups&nbsp;<strong>can\u2019t turn off<\/strong>&nbsp;user access to a service that\u2019s turned on for an organizational unit.<\/li><li>An access group can contain any users or&nbsp;groups within your account.&nbsp;You can use your existing groups, for example,&nbsp;sales@example.com&nbsp;or project-team@example.com.<\/li><li>Access groups control only whether a service is on for a user. You set the service settings (such as Drive sharing) for a a organization unit or&nbsp;configuration groups (available for some services).&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/a\/answer\/9224126\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more<\/a><\/li><li class=\"\">You create access groups in the Google Admin console, Google Groups for Businesss, Google Cloud Directory Sync, or Directory API.&nbsp;&nbsp;Groups created in Google Groups and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/a\/answer\/10286834\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dynamic groups<\/a>&nbsp;can&#8217;t be used as access groups.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Compare&nbsp;groups and organizational units<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th>&nbsp;<\/th><th>GROUPS<\/th><th>ORGANIZATIONAL UNITS<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Function<\/strong><\/td><td>Turn on services<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/a\/answer\/9224126\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Configure some service settings<\/a><\/td><td>Turn on\/off servicesConfigure service settings<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Service access<\/strong><\/td><td>Turn service&nbsp;<strong>ON&nbsp;<\/strong>for users in the group. Always overrides the organizational unit&#8217;s setting.<\/td><td>Turn service&nbsp;<strong>ON&nbsp;<\/strong>or&nbsp;<strong>OFF&nbsp;<\/strong>for users in the organizational unit.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Services supported<\/strong><\/td><td>Core servicesAdditional Google services (such as YouTube, AdWords)SAML apps<\/td><td>Core servicesAdditional Google servicesSAML appsGoogle Workspace Marketplace appsGoogle services without an individual On\/Off control<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>User membership<\/strong><\/td><td>Users from different organizational units can belong to a group. Users can belong to multiple groups.<\/td><td>A user belongs to a single organizational unit.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Inheritance<\/strong><\/td><td>Yes. Groups within a group get access to the service.<\/td><td>Yes. Organizational units can inherit or override the parent organizational unit setting.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong class=\"\">Automatic user licensing<\/strong><\/td><td>No<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ref: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>h<a href=\"\/\/support.google.com\/a\/answer\/9050643?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ttps:\/\/support.google.com\/a\/answer\/9050643?hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/a\/answer\/4352075?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/support.google.com\/a\/answer\/4352075?hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How access groups work Groups turn on user access to core services,&nbsp;Google additional services&nbsp;(such as YouTube), and&nbsp;SAML applications. Groups&nbsp;can\u2019t turn off&nbsp;user access to a service that\u2019s turned on for an organizational unit. An access group can contain any users or&nbsp;groups within your account.&nbsp;You can use your existing groups, for example,&nbsp;sales@example.com&nbsp;or project-team@example.com. Access groups control only <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=3514\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[644,585,810,497],"tags":[811],"class_list":["post-3514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-google-cloud","category-google-workspace","category-solutions","tag-google-workspace"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3515,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions\/3515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}