[crazygringo]

Workspace users always get features after free consumer accounts so that organization admins have time to evaluate them, update training materials, etc.

This is a feature, not a bug.

And of course there are lots of features that Workspace accounts get, that free accounts don't get at all. Like the timeline view in Sheets.

[teeray]

So instead of giving you a feature toggle, they just don’t give you the feature at all.

[vel0city]

I get making new features an opt-in thing for workspace, but from what I can tell I can't even enable it for my workspace domain. I'm not able to enable it for myself to evaluate it and update training materials.

[crazygringo]

Features are enabled via the enterprise rollout schedule documented here:

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/

You evaluate features and updating training materials from what is documented here and in online help, together with any testing you want to do using free consumer accounts which you can obviously create at any time.

[vel0city]

I've been a Worspace/Apps admin for over a decade; I'm well aware of how this works.

What I'm saying is, from what I can see in the admin portal, there's no place for me to go today to enable Gemini for my users. Things are routinely weeks or months delayed before they even become available to enable for Workspace tenants, and often times features just never get offered.

[crazygringo]

But then you know that's normal? Things aren't being "delayed" weeks, they're following the rollout calendar designed to give admins time to prepare. Things aren't meant to be enabled in advance.

And like I said, there's plenty of stuff that's only available in paid Workspace. A lot of business features live there. (While things that are meant only for personal consumers aren't there.)

[vel0city]

I agree its normal, in that its the normal process that Workspace usually gets pretty delayed. I don't agree its good. And I don't think its actually helping admins get prepared, as we're not actually able to turn it on for test OUs for a while.

I'd rather have it defaulted to off with the ability to turn it on for selected OUs, so I can trial it out and create my own documentation around it. But instead, I have to wait often weeks or months for features to become available to even turn on for my tenant. Users are like "hey I heard this awesome feature, can you turn it on?" Nope!