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Hands-On G Suite for Administrators

You're reading from   Hands-On G Suite for Administrators Build and manage any business on top of the Google Cloud infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789613018
Length 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Cesar Anton Dorantes Cesar Anton Dorantes
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: G Suite for Business FREE CHAPTER
2. Getting Started with G Suite 3. Administering Gmail for Business 4. Team Collaboration with G Suite 5. Moving On with Data Migration Services 6. Section 2: G Suite with Google Domains
7. Setting Up Domains and Users 8. Monitoring Reports 9. Archiving with Vault 10. Section 3: Security, Privacy, and Troubleshooting
11. Setting Up Security 12. Section 4: Apps and Sites
13. Getting Started with Google Sites 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up Google session control

At this point, you already know how to apply the different configurations that will allow users to safely log in to the platform. Users will only be active for a few hours, and then will not return until the next day.

Leaving a Google session active for too long without being used is an unnecessary risk, and to minimize this, G Suite allows administrators to define how long a session is considered valid. After this period, the user will be required to log in again.

To define the session length, click on the Session control drop-down menu and select the amount of hours it will last. It can be as short as one hour, or as long as 30 days. You can even make sessions never expire:

Ideally, a session should last an entire day. In most cases, 12 hours should be enough for a user to only be required to log in at the beginning a working day.

Being able...

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