![]() ![]() We put together a panel of Workspace experts who have G Suite Legacy Free accounts to discuss the impact of this decision, Google's response and general surprise at the backlash, as well as a possible new offering for a Google Workspace Family Plan, and downgrade options. We have added our family members, have over a decade of email history on our accounts, and have purchased content on the various services offered by Google using these accounts. What they did not anticipate, was angering their most loyal customer base, us admins who have been using Google Apps from the very beginning. This was likely an attempt by Google to recoup the lost money from businesses getting away with not paying for a decade, and bring them on to the updated Google Workspace paid plans. Google Workspace has made the decision to stop offering G Suite Legacy Free to the grandfathered in users who have been using it for many years now. It is unknown at this point if those with only a few accounts will be able to add as many as needed or if they will be capped at 10. I still show in my billing dashboard that I have 41 available licenses, which I already had from many years ago. I have switched one of my legacy accounts over to the free plan and had no issue adding a new user. That sounds ominous, and we are digging in to see if we can clarify what would quantify business purposes, although generally non commercial means anything that is not used to generate money.Īs far as how many users will be allowed on the free plan, currently they have not mentioned a limit. ![]() If you’re using G Suite legacy free edition for business purposes, we will transition your account to Google Workspace.” The support article states that “G Suite Legacy free edition is only intended for personal non commercial use. If you had previously updated your account to Google Workspace before January 19th 2022, you should contact support to switch back. The Support article where this was originally announced and has been updated all along as also been updated with today’s details: We are seeing lots of users reporting seeing these screens show up in their dashboards, some people have had to log out and back in again to get it to show up. You will of course be able to upgrade to proper Workspace if you need the premium features, but again they don’t seem to state what the premium features are yet. CubeBackup is used by over 1000 companies in over 50 countries around the world, runs on Linux/Windows/ and Docker, are GDPR Compliant, and it is super easy to use.Ĭheck out CubeBackup at and sign up for a free trial today. It’s easy to use, affordable, and you are completely in control of your data since it runs on your server locally or in the cloud. This can be a game-changer in mergers and for anyone with a Legacy Free domain and a different paid domain who wants to combine them. CubeBackup backs up your Google Workspace accounts to your local or cloud storage such as a NAS, AWS S3 bucket, or Google Cloud Storage, and works on every Google Workspace edition including GSuite Legacy Free.ĬubeBackup is even able to back up your Workspace account from one domain and migrate it to another domain. They are a sponsor, but it’s actually a very helpful option so don’t jump ahead. ![]() I want to tell you about a really interesting tool that might help with Gsuite legacy free account migrations as well as backing up paid accounts.
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