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Google Workspace Administrator: Securely Grant Permissions with Google Drive API Access for Internal Apps

Learn how to allow internal Google Workspace apps to access Google Drive APIs while maintaining a strict security policy with an approved allowlist.

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Question

The application development team requests that a new, internal, domain-owned Google Workspace app be allowed to access Google Drive APIs. You are currently restricting access to all APIs using an approved allowlist, per security policy. You need to grant access for this app. What should you do?

A. Enable all API access for Google Drive.
B. Enable the “trust domain owned apps” setting.
C. Add OAuth Client ID to the Google Drive Trusted List.
D. Allowlist the app in the Google Workspace Marketplace.

Answer

C. Add OAuth Client ID to the Google Drive Trusted List.

Explanation

Adding the OAuth Client ID of the new application to the Google Drive Trusted List ensures only that specific app can access Google Drive APIs, maintaining the security policy of using an allowlist.

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