Centralized Administration of OUs, Users, Groups, and Devices

As you’ve learned throughout this book, there are many administrative tools and features that can be utilized to administer an individual ChromeOS device. However, such tools don’t provide the scalability needed to handle the administration of these devices when deployed in larger enterprise computing environments. In those instances, you must rely on centralized management tools such as the Admin Console, which was discussed in detail in Chapter 9, Google Workspace Admin Console.

However, a few areas of the Admin console were excluded from the last chapter’s discussion because they require a more in-depth explanation. Specifically, they were the console’s Directory and Devices submenus. These areas of the console contain the tools for administering some of the most important resources in your domain. In fact, the centralized management of these resources is considered to be the hallmark of...