Turn on Meet meetings and calls for your organization

This page is for administrators who manage Meet for an organization or school. To manage your own Meet calls, go to Start or schedule a Google Meet video meeting.

If you manage Google Workspace for an organization or school, turn on Google Meet so your users can use Meet for meetings and phone calls. You can also decide which features and privileges your users have access to.

Choose your edition below:

  • Business / Enterprise—Non-Education editions
  • Education—Education editions

When the Google Meet service is on, users in your organization can:

Turn on Meet meetings and calls

Allow users to join Meet meetings and calls

  1. Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.

    If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.

  2. In the Admin console, go to Menu and then Appsand thenGoogle Workspaceand thenGoogle Meet.
  3. To turn on Meet for everyone, click Service statusand thenOn for everyone.
  4. (Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:
    1. At the left, select the organizational unit.
    2. To change the Service status, select On or Off.
    3. Choose one:
      • If the Service status is set to Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
      • If the Service status is set to Overridden, either click Inherit to revert to the same setting as its parent, or click Save to keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
        Note: Learn more about organizational structure.
  5. (Optional) To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to Use groups to customize service access.

Changes can take up to 24 hours but typically happen more quickly. Learn more

A Meet conference link is automatically added to all new Google Calendar events for users that can create Meet meetings. Admins can disable automatic Meet conference links for all new Calendar events, or users can adjust the conferencing preferences for their account.

Control Meet safety settings

You control who can join meetings and calls in your domain and which meetings and calls your users can join. For details, go to Manage Meet safety settings

Grant access to manage Meet settings (optional)

Give someone else admin privileges to help you manage Google Meet. 

Learn more:

Review HIPAA compliance

Organizations subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) should review HIPAA Compliance with Google Workspace and Cloud Identity.

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