Google Workspace Initial Setup

Jan-Kobza - PeerSpot reviewer
Account Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

There's no implementation. You just log in to your Google account.

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AM
Assistant vice president at JAIN IRRIGATION SYSTEMS LTD

The initial setup of G Suite Enterprise was straightforward.

In our organization, the implementation took four days and on the fifth day, we were able to roll it out.

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SAGAR LAKHANI - PeerSpot reviewer
Human Resources Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 11-50 employees

Setting up Google Workspace was the easiest, so its initial setup is a ten out of ten. It took less than a day to deploy the solution, specifically just two hours. The migration and integration processes took the most time, but that depends on how much data you have, though it was pretty seamless.

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King Tan - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Director at Aeon Earth Private Limited

Google Workspace is easy to deploy. I rate it a ten out of ten. It was completed in less than a week. We assign an administrator account and then proceed to create user accounts. One person can handle the tool's deployment and maintenance. 

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Emil Heinemann - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Cerberus IT Solutions

I found the initial setup to be difficult. It's not very intuitive. The setup is cumbersome. It gets difficult when I have to pull information back in. I find it to be very fickle.

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HI
Head of IT Operations at Aram Meem (Branch ToYou)

Setting up the product is pretty simple. I use Google for the personal, so I was using it for personal emails, so switching to the corporate email makes no difference for me as if I'm using my personal email. 

In general, it's not a problem to set everything up. I'd rate it a five out of five in terms of ease of setup.

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JK
Senior Desktop Analyst at Tech Mahindra

On our end, the deployment process is signing up the users. They submit a form with their department and email address, and that's how they get authenticated. I am a senior desktop analyst, so I set up the users, provide them with a laptop or desktop, and set them up with services like Google Workspace. I'm part of the provisioning process. Our headquarters in France handled the primary deployment, and we provide end-user support. I never was involved in the actual setup or implementation.

The only maintenance necessary is the authentication platform instead of the OneLogin product. We're deploying Google Workspace and ServiceNow, which is my primary application as a support person. I can pass through authentication when I'm in the office through OneLogin. If I'm logging in externally on a non-company computer, I can use OneLogin authentication on my phone to get into ServiceNow.

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Neill Walker - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Agile Consultant at Secret

The setup is easy. However, the help files could improve.

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Shiv Khillar - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President Of Engineering at Reshamandi

The initial setup for Google Workspace is very minimal and takes less than half a day’s time. If you have a bit of technical experience, you should be able to set it up.

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AL
Project Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is not complex to set up. It is very straightforward and simple to implement. 

The industry standard has been maintained, so I don't see any difficulties for implementation with G Suite.

In a single console, I can manage multiple customers. They have very similar panels and similar options available in the GAM tool. Connecting with the GAM suite can be difficult to manage multiple customers and servers in the script.

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DN
Business Administrator at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees

The initial setup of Google Workspace is straightforward.

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MADHAV CHABLANI - PeerSpot reviewer
Consulting Chief Information Officer at Tippingedge

The initial setup is straightforward. The process is seamless. I do not have to do any extra setup. We do not need documentation. The product is cloud-based. The deployment is automated.

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Dubi Blitt - PeerSpot reviewer
Country Manager at CloudFabrix Software

As it's a cloud-based solution, there isn't really an implementation that happens. It's very simple and straightforward to start using it. 

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Sa’Ad Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Sustainable Attainable Lifestyle at Tiny Toronto

G Suite Enterprise requires effort to set it all up.

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Dhiraj Verma - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Information Technology Manager at Kaleyra

The setup is usually easy.

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Adrian Mukisa - PeerSpot reviewer
Student at Kabale University

The initial setup of Google Workspace is straightforward.

I rate the initial setup of Google Workspace a ten out of ten.

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KK
Commercial Sales Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I don't deal with the deployment or maintenance aspect of the solution. 

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Daniolo Medrado - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Innovation Officer at eMotion

The solution is simple to set up. It's not difficult at all. 

I do not recall exactly how long the deployment took. 

We have two staff members, trainees, that are handling any maintenance tasks. 

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Marcelo_Marciano - PeerSpot reviewer
Account Executive - Special Accounts at Iron Mountain Incorporated

The initial setup is easy because it's all pre-configured, so there's no problem configuring the tool. I rate the initial setup a ten out of ten.

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Marek Gmyrek - PeerSpot reviewer
Development manager at ASDAG

It's an online service, and installation is not needed. No maintenance is required for this solution. 

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IS
Senior Manager/ Co-Founder at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

I found the initial setup not very logical, the way the administration consults are done, it's a little complicated. I know this is very straightforward in Outlook. In a practical sense, the set up was easy. We just created the users within our organization, set up their email addresses, the permissions access, and it was fine. It took a few hours and it's on cloud so we didn't need to install anything, we just had to configure, set up users, give permission for the subscriptions, that was it.

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Jacky Hood - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at FieldDay Solutions, Inc.

I wasn't there for the setup but I know the guy who's the administrator and I'm sure he had to make a bunch of selections like the one I mentioned earlier that ours is private. Our documents are private. We can't share outside the company. 

Recently on Calendar, it kept trying to put us to assume that any event was a Google meeting. It's Google's product. It's called Google Meet. Of course, we can use Meet, which used to be called Hangouts. And we do once in a while, we use Google Hangouts if our other chat system is down. But when you set up a meeting the default was to put us into Google Meet. Then if we were using some other tool, people would get confused. They'd say, "Well, is the meeting on Google Meet or is it on GoToMeeting or is it on Zoom?" Et cetera. So our administrator recently changed it so that that default is not there. And so if you want Google Meet, you have to select it. I would say probably when he initially set it up, it might've taken him half an hour to find out what people wanted and then put in the selections- 30 minutes maybe.

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MC
CEO/CTO at Xandor Systems

G Suite applications are all web-based, so you do not have to download anything. It's simple compared to some other products. 

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UV
Support Engineer at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees

The deployment is a lengthy process.

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MS
Head of IT at Prerana Motors India

The email setup is very easy. It took less than 10 minutes to create my email account and configure it. 

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Tomasz Piwonski - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales representative at LizardFS

The initial setup is straightforward. It took five minutes to deploy the solution. To deploy the solution, I needed to create a login, and then I got access to spreadsheets or any other documents.

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MA
Regional Manager at VDart

I didn't find it complex.

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AP
Technology Competency and Solution Head at LearningMate

It is a cloud-based solution, so there is no on-premises installation.

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AR
Consultant at Industry for consultant

The tool's deployment is easy. It is a cloud solution, and you must just log in to use it. You need a team of ten resources to deploy it. 

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MansoorNathani - PeerSpot reviewer
Product & Migration Specialist at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup was straightforward.

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it_user616638 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at KEF Holdings Limited

It was very easy to implement. It took maybe two or three days to deploy.

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Abhishek Gowsika - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Operations Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The setup was very simple and straightforward. The deployment was on the cloud, so I did not have to do much. All I needed to do was activate the account to be set up and everything was on the cloud already. You just need a password and username to get started. 

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Sheila  V. - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Setting up and deploying Google Workspace is easy as it's done on the web. It's a simple process, and on a scale of one to five, with one being difficult and five being easy, I'm rating the setup and deployment of Google Workspace a five.

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HD
Founder Director at a renewables & environment company with 1-10 employees

The initial setup is straightforward. To integrate apps into G Suite is actually fairly simple. We're fortunately not sitting with a lot of disparate systems. I add one project and then I use IT to sync.

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VK
Head IT at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup was very easy.

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RG
Senior Manager, Engineering at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup was very straightforward.

It took a couple of hours to deploy.

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AA
Senior ERP System Admin at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

Deploying Google Workspace is straightforward. We deployed in-house with two IT staff.

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CL
Partner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Setting up Google is no problem. You create an email. That's it. So it works everywhere. We didn't have to do anything else. 

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AS
Director, Middle East, East India & SAARC at DMX Technologies

The solution is on the cloud. It's kind of a plug-and-play solution. We just got a license or subscription. It gave us access to so many users. There are no hassles at all for the installation and configuration. They make it very simple.

It hardly takes more than a few minutes. The deployment is very fast.

You only need one person to handle the deployment process. It requires a very minimal amount of staff.

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it_user1360752 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Owner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I went into G Suite, and signed up. I got a little help from my web developer, but I pretty much, I did it myself.

Once you are signed up, the one thing I don't like about Google is if you try to find any information, it is not really laid out that well. I've had some problems and I have spent hours trying to get it fixed. And when I finally find the answer, it's like, well, that wasn't that difficult, but it's really not easy to find stuff on Google. And I find their support to be lacking.

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it_user997845 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Zeste Informatique

The complexity of the initial setup depends on the person. For me, it was easy and straightforward because of my experience. I have been using mail servers for almost twenty years.

It is easy for people who have set up mail servers at the start of the internet.

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PP
Partner, Cloud Expert at GoCloud

The initial setup is very straightforward. 

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it_user807813 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company

There can be some complication if migrating from other providers. A lot of online training materials are available and there are many independent vendors and consultancies that can help with it. 

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it_user222417 - PeerSpot reviewer
Independent Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

It was very simple.

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AW
Legal Associate at a legal firm with 11-50 employees

It's easy to deploy.

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EW
Senior Consultant/System Analyst at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

The initial setup is pretty straightforward and simple.

Security-wise, grouping people, creating permissions, and so on are all very simple. Very simple to use

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BW
Specialist in IT Security at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have found the implementation process to be straightforward. It's not overly complex or difficult. 

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SS
Managing Director at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup was simple.

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AS
Content strategist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I did not handle any aspect of the installation process. I can't speak to how easy or difficult it was, how long it took, or what was involved in executing. 

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VM
Founder & MD at Coequal Associates Private Limited

If you follow the implementation process step by step, there is almost no chance that you will run into a problem. We are an IT service and solutions company and we did the configuration ourselves without using any external party and it was very simple and intuitive. You just follow the instructions step by step. Deployment takes maybe an hour and it doesn't change, whether you have 10 users or 400 users. There is no maintenance required for this solution. 

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NT
Data & AI expert at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There is no need to install anything; it is all on the cloud. 

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SB
Director Of Information Technology at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The initial setup is straightforward. 

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UM
IT Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup of G Suite Enterprise is easy.

While I cannot recall exactly how long the full deployment took us, I believe we are talking about two or three months. During this period we needed to migrate from Microsoft to Google, after which we had some work to tend to. 

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AR
Managing Partner / Owner Executive at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The initial setup was straightforward and took just a couple of days to deploy within the whole company.

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RK
Technical Director at a non-profit with 1-10 employees

The initial setup is easy and straightforward. 

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LF
Software Tester at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

The initial setup is complex. It involved browsing, knowledge of IMAP and POP, and the two-step verification was in place, and then I had to consult with the smartphone provider before I access the Google Apps for Business.

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KI
Head of Product at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

In terms of the initial setup, I don't know too much about the process. I didn't set it up personally. It was my company's support services that handled the implementation. It was also already up and running when I came in. They just asked me to set up my Gmail and I have access to all the other sorts of apps in G Suite. In that sense, it's straightforward.

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PT
CEO at Shivaami Cloud Services Pvt. Ltd.

It's very straightforward.

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ST
Information Technology Manager at a non-profit with 1-10 employees

There is nothing to install. We just have to subscribe to it.

The implementation was very easy.

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AP
Solutions / IT / AI Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The initial setup is not complex. It's very straightforward. It's easy. A company wouldn't have any issues with the prospect of setting it up internally.

The deployment only took 15 days. It was quite quick. We really appreciated it didn't take too long.

I can't directly speak to how many people were involved internally in the deployment and maintenance aspects of the product.

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JW
IT Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The initial setup was straightforward because it's totally web-based. We managed it via the web browser and we don't need any special installation of software stuff locally. It was quite easy to set up and start with.

We deployed it around five years ago, but it took a few days to get the basics. It was fairly straightforward. It took a couple of days and I think we had most of it up. We started using it and then we learn as we go with new features and stuff, but the whole thing was fairly straightforward.

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ST
IT Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup of this product is very straightforward. Deployment time depends on the number of users because the administration is different if you're implementing for a large company. We have implemented in our own company as well as for our customers. It took three months to have it perfectly fine-tuned for our company including the migration from Lotus Notes. We are integrators so we did it ourselves. We used four people to assist and they now deal with maintenance if it's required. We have IT engineers, two administrators and two other IT engineers and consultants.

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EW
Head of Pre-Sales at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Being a cloud solution, no big effort is required for its implementation. It is easy to implement this solution.

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Buyer's Guide
Google Workspace
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Google Workspace. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.