Change Google Drive settings in the Admin Console of Google Appsor not

Question

Google Apps admin console has a section dedicated to Google Drive settings for all the domain. Through these you can decide if users can share or not documents outside the domain, etc. Unfortunately you cannot apply the settings to specific sub-orgs but to all the domain. However Flash Panel allows you do to this and I'm wondering which API they're using to accomplish it. I went through Google Apps Admin SDK documentation but I couldn't find anything to control or change Drive settings in the Admin console via API.

Have you got any clues about it?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

When you change these settings in the CPanel, as you noted, the setting is strictly enforced for all users in the Google Apps instance. The user no longer even has the ability to share Drive files outside of the domain.

There are no API settings that correspond to the CPanel settings. The way FlashPanel appears to be enforcing the settings is by setting up "rules" (this OU can't share with people outside the domain except for this external domain). Then FlashPanel monitors user file sharing under that OU, looks for violations and can either automatically undo the share or send a notification of the violation.

Thus FlashPanel is not strictly enforcing the sharing policies like the CPanel setting can. The user still has the option to share externally and for some period of time, the file is actually shared externally. FlashPanel simply has the ability to notifiy and or rectify the situation afterwards.