I had posted this topic over in r/sysadmin but didn't get many responses. So, I thought I would try here.

Are there any admins out there whose companies use Google Workspace? Working with one right now and they all just have local user accounts created on the workstation for them. Then, once the login to the windows workstation, they launch Chrome and login to Google. All their docs etc are in Google.

They are looking to have some centralized user management for logging into the workstations instead of creating local logins.

Do most companies who use Google Workspace use on-prem windows servers for user management for logging into their windows workstations? I know that GCPW exists, but I have not heard great things about it. Including someone who thought that Google might drop the product entirely.

The users really like Google Workspace and don't want to switch to M365. So, wondering what others do that are using Google Workspace in a small (but not tiny) business. There are about 150 users over 6 locations.

^{This might be a really stupid question.}

The instructions sent to us said "login," but I'm not sure if we need to create the account by scratch. It said we're supposed to use student number and @ and then the school domain.

So yeah, am I supposed to create the account myself? Just making sure since I'm really paranoid and new to this stuff.