About the Groups services and interfaces

Create and manage groups in your organization

The Groups list in your Admin console is your main hub for managing groups in your organization. Go here to create a group, add members, and update many group options. Groups created here can be used for communication and collaboration (including email lists), and as configuration groups.

Details:

• Create a group
• Track group information in the Groups list

Add features such as Collaborative Inboxes

If you turn on the Groups for Business service (below), you can use the Google Groups app to manage your organization's groups. You can perform many of the same tasks as in your Admin console, and also add additional features. And depending on settings you make for Groups for Business, you can give users permissions to create and manage groups.

Details: 

• Make a group a Collaborative Inbox
• Add features and manage conversations in Google Groups
• Compare tasks: Admin console vs. Google Groups

Create recommended sharing groups for Drive and Docs editors

Target audiences are departments, teams, or other groups that you recommend for users to share their items with. You can add them to users' sharing settings in Google Drive and Docs editors. Using target audiences encourages users to share items with appropriate teams rather than your entire organization. You can't add non-Google accounts, including visitor accounts, to a target audience.

Details:

• About target audiences

Enable and manage Google Groups features for internal groups

The Groups for Business service is where you go to control whether users can access your organization's internal groups at their Google Groups app, at groups.google.com. You also set policies for who can create and manage groups, and participate in group discussions.

Details: What you get with Groups for Business

Allow or block access to external groups

The legacy Google Groups additional service in your Admin console controls whether users can access external groups at their Google Groups app. These include public groups, and groups outside your organization that users might subscribe to using their Google Workspace account.

Details: Allow or block access to external groups