I have a grandfathered enterprise account and am an owner of a few G+ communities. 1) Will I still have access to the communities after April? I don’t know if communities are sort of identified as enterprise or not when they are created. 2) Most of my members are not enterprise members so I’m assuming that in order to let them have access they would have to be in my domain, is that correct?
As discussed in a concurrent post ( https://plus.google.com/+JonSchull/posts/RjapVcr2H11) ...
ReplyDelete1. If your enterprise ID owns the G+ community, you should retain access.
2. I have been told your assumption is false. The community can optionally be open to non-domain-members.
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Hi Rumple Gold
ReplyDeleteGoogle have not made any announcements yet about what will happen to existing communities that are not domain-restricted. It is entirely possible they have not even decided yet.
This means that we don't yet know the answer to 1.
The answer to 2 is that non-GSuite users won't have access to G+ at all, so won't have access to the community.
Julie Wills So if I buy a GSuite subscription, my G+ collections won't go away?
ReplyDeleteEDIT: NOPE. https://plus.google.com/+WasimMuklashy/posts/43NZQAJhx2h
Mike Waters You can’t move content to another account but couldn’t you upgrade your existing account to a g$uite one?
ReplyDeleteRumple Gold There's no such thing as a GSuite "upgrade". You have to buy a domain, and buy a GSuite account for that domain. It would be a new, separate, account.
ReplyDeleteMike Waters I don't see anything on that post that says you won't lose your collection, unless it was originally created using a GSuite account.
ReplyDeleteThere is no way to migrate from a consumer account to GSuite account. Or from any G+ account to any other G+ account, whether GSuite or consumer.
I'm not sure what you mean by a "Grandfathered Enterprise Account", but if you mean that you have been using a profile on that GSuite account to post your Collection, then it will continue to exist after the sunset.
However, it's unlikely that anyone outside your own domain will be able to see it.
(N.B. My own profile is on my Grandfathered free GSuite account, but I don't refer to it as "Enterprise", as it's a personal domain.)
Julie Wills "grandfathered enterprise account" is not mine, but the OP's. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteMike Waters Apologies. I should have asked Rumple Gold
ReplyDeleteJulie Wills
ReplyDeleteYes, I meant that it is my own domain and is, as such, a free gsuite account. I called it grandfathered to distinguish it from a paid gsuite account in case there are differences. I haven’t really made use of any of the gsuite specific products but recently have poked around and like the chat feature a lot because of the ability or organize chat topics within chat groups.
I’m not a business, just a personal account for which I happened to use a non-gmail.com address when I signed up for g+. But the term enterprise appears in some places.
I do have a few g+ communities where friends and I write together. But they all have gmail addresses. So it looks like I’ll be migrating our communities and I’ve chosen MeWe.
I’m hoping to be able to move our content and have been watching this group for info on that. Thanks.
Rumple Gold OK. So your GSuite account is the same as mine, which means that you personally may well be able to see the communities that you are the owner of after next April.
ReplyDeleteWhat's still not entirely clear is what will happen about the content in those Communities that was contributed by users outside your domain, or whether those users will have any access (whether a read-only archive or otherwise).
We are still waiting to hear announcements from Google to clarify those sort of scenarios.
Hopefully, we'll hear something more concrete in early 2019.