How to govern Operation in Google Workspace
A step-by-step guide to governing Operation in Google Workspace with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Operation in Google Workspace means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Google Workspace with the pre-built controls below, so it becomes a repeatable check rather than a one-off cleanup. The steps that follow apply the same detect, review, remediate loop to Operation.
Steps
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Inventory Google Workspace
Connect Google Workspace and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.
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Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Operation in Google Workspace to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
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Review by owner and severity
Use the Google Workspace reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.
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Remediate and automate
Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.
Google Workspace controls for Operation
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Google Workspace catalog on the Google Workspace connector page.
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Drive file owned by suspended user
Detects Drive files whose owner is a suspended Google account.
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Suspended Google user is still active in Entra ID
Detects users suspended in Google Workspace whose linked Entra ID account remains enabled.
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Drive files by Shared Drive
Top 10 Shared Drives by file count.
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Top Google groups by membership
Top 10 Google groups ranked by direct member count.
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Chat spaces by type
Distribution of Chat spaces across SPACE, GROUP_CHAT and DIRECT_MESSAGE types.
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Drive files by MIME type
Distribution of non-trashed Drive files across MIME types.
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Users by org unit
Top 10 organizational units ranked by user count.
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Transfer Drive File Ownership
Transfers ownership of a Drive file to a designated archive user after approval.
