5 million businesses and growing
As a representative of Google and the Google brand, we will show you how Google Apps fits with your business. We will work with you to develop a solution that offers simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools for any size business – all designed to streamline setup, minimize maintenance, and reduce your costs.
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Product Info
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Google’s web-based messaging and collaboration apps require no hardware or software and need minimal administration, creating tremendous time and cost savings for businesses.
End users can use the familiar Microsoft Outlook interface for email, contacts and calendar as they transition to Gmail and Google Calendar.
A leading research firm found that Google Apps is as little as 1/3 the total cost of competing solutions.
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Each employee gets 25 GB for email storage, so they can keep important messages and find them instantly with built-in Google search.
Gmail is designed so employees can spend less time managing their inboxes, and more time being productive. Time-saving features like message threading, message labels, fast message search and powerful spam filtering help employees work efficiently with high volumes of email.
With several options for accessing their information while on the go, employees can be productive with Google Apps even when they’re not at their desks.
At no extra charge, Google Apps supports over-the-air mobile access on BlackBerry devices, the iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android and many less powerful phones.
We guarantee that Google Apps will be available at least 99.9% of the time, so your employees are more productive and so you can worry less about system downtime.**
With synchronous replication, your data and activity in Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites is simultaneously preserved in multiple secure data centers. If one data center is unable to serve your requests, the system is designed to instantly fall back to another data center that can serve your account with no interruption in service.
The Radicati Group found that Microsoft Exchange typically has 60 minutes of unplanned downtime per month. Google Apps customers typically experience less than 15 minutes of downtime per month.
When you trust your company’s information to Google, you can be confident that your critical information is safe and secure.
Google’s information security team, including some of the world’s foremost experts in information, application and network security, are focused on keeping your information safe. Google and many other customers trust this system with highly sensitive corporate data.
Businesses get these customizable security features with Google Apps:
Administrators can deeply customize Google Apps to meet their technical, branding and business requirements.
Integration options let you connect Google Apps to your existing IT infrastructure.
System branding and data ownership give Google Apps your look and feel, and ensures customer ownership of employee data.
Google Apps is highly reliable and easy to operate, but support is available for administrators should you need it.
Support options include:
Google Apps also has a deep network of partners ready to help businesses with deployment, data migration, user training, system integration and custom application development.
** The 99.9% uptime SLA for Google Apps is offered to organizations using Google Apps for Business, as described in the Google Apps for Business Terms of Service.
Add archiving and e-discovery to Google Apps
Add archiving and e-discovery to Google Apps
Define retention policies that are automatically applied to your email and chat messages.
Your email and chat messages are archived and retained according to your policies, preventing inadvertent deletions.
Be prepared for litigation and compliance audits with powerful search tools that help you find and retrieve relevant email and chat messages.
Place legal holds on users as needed. Email and chat messages can’t be deleted by users when they’re placed on hold.
Export specific email and chat messages to standard formats for additional processing and review.
Run reports on user activity and actions in the archive. Searches, message views, exports and more are shown.
Google Sites is an easy way to create secure web pages for intranets and team projects. No coding or HTML required.
Google Sites is an easy way to create secure web pages for intranets and team projects. No coding or HTML required.
Use Google Sites to centralize documents, spreadsheets, presentations, videos, slideshows and more to help keep teams organized.
New! Build collaborative sites faster with templates for project workspaces, team sites, intranets and more.
Google Sites is securely powered by the web, so you can access company pages from your desk, on the road, at home and on your mobile phone.
Google Sites works in the browser on PC, Mac and Linux computers.
Administrators can manage site sharing permissions across the business, and authors can share and revoke file access at any time.
Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office brings collaborative multi-person editing to the familiar Microsoft® Office experience. You can share, backup and simultaneously edit Microsoft Word, PowerPoint®, and Excel® documents with coworkers.
Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office brings collaborative multi-person editing to the familiar Microsoft® Office experience. You can share, backup and simultaneously edit Microsoft Word, PowerPoint®, and Excel® documents with coworkers.
Learn how switching to Google Apps turbocharged Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. (English)
Web-based documents, spreadsheets, drawings and presentations that let users edit the same file at the same time so you always have the latest version.
Web-based documents, spreadsheets, drawings and presentations that let users edit the same file at the same time so you always have the latest version.
Google Drive is securely powered by the web, giving you the flexibility to be productive from your desk, on the road, at home and on your mobile phone, even when you’re offline.
Google Drive on your Mac, PC or mobile device (or your browser) gives you a single place for up-to-date versions of your files from anywhere. In addition to any file type you choose to upload, Google Docs are also stored in Google Drive.
Share individual files or whole folders with individual people, your entire team or even customers, vendors and partners. Create and reply to comments on files to get feedback or add ideas.
Administrators can manage file sharing permissions system-wide, and document owners can share and revoke file access at any time.
A web-based calendar application that enables employees to work together efficiently and helps minimize costs and IT hassles.
A web-based calendar application that enables employees to work together efficiently and helps minimize costs and IT hassles.
Overlay multiple calendars to see when people are available. Google Calendar sends invitations and manages RSVPs.
Google Calendar is integrated into Gmail and interoperable with popular calendar applications.
Calendars can be shared company-wide or with select co-workers. A range of sharing permission controls help maintain security and privacy.
View and edit event details, add new events, and invite guests on mobile devices like the BlackBerry and iPhone. Even receive calendar notifications via SMS.
Publicize external company events by publishing a calendar to make it searchable in the Google Calendar gallery. Easily embed calendars into web pages.
Gmail for business offers 30 GB combined storage per user, powerful spam filtering, BlackBerry and Outlook interoperability, and a 99.9% uptime SLA.
Gmail for business offers 30 GB combined storage per user, powerful spam filtering, BlackBerry and Outlook interoperability, and a 99.9% uptime SLA.
Each user gets a combined 30 GB of email and IM storage (50 times the industry average).
Gmail is securely powered by the web, so you can be productive from your desk, on the road, at home and on your mobile phone, even when you’re offline.
Get the benefits of Apps on leading mobile platforms
Spend less time organizing email and find emails quickly with Google-powered search for your inbox.
Powerful Gmail spam filtering helps you stay focused on what’s important. Postini filtering lets you customize your spam protection.
New! Get apps that integrate with your Gmail inbox.
Earn revenue from your website
Advertise your business on Google
Get email updates on the topics of your choice
Analyse website traffic
Publish your organisation's blog on the web
Complete online purchases more quickly and securely
Create a customised search experience on your website
Manage, traffic, serve and review your online advertising
Manage your ad inventory
Explore the world from your computer
Analyse subscriptions to RSS feeds that you publish
Business info, news and interactive charts
Create and participate in public discussion groups
Add news, games and more to your Google homepage
Share what you know
View maps and directions
Submit your products to Google
Gather and prioritise questions or opinions from a group of people
Search thousands of news stories
Meet new people and stay in touch with friends
Find, edit and share your photos
Claim or add your business on Google
Get all your blogs and news feeds quickly
Build 3D models quickly and easily
Get tools for translators to translate your pages and documents faster
Allow users to purchase additional storage for Google Docs and Picasa Web Albums
Manage calls and voicemail more easily
Improve your site's visibility
Build effective websites
Watch, upload and share videos
Annual Plan
Contract
1 year
Cost
$50/user account/year
Save $10/user account year
Payment frequency
monthly
User maximum
unlimited
Gmail storage and Google Drive storage
30 GB combined / account
Interoperability with Microsoft Outlook email and calendar
Sync with Blackberry Enterprise Server
Easy contacts management
Mobile email, calendar and IM access
Email security, powered by Postini
Gmail ads can be disabled
Resource scheduling in Google Calendar
Mailing list functionality and easy content sharing with groups
Google Sites storage
10 GB plus 500 MB per user for shared storage
Google Video for Business offers private, secure video sharing
Google Apps Script
24/7 phone and email support for critical issues
99.9% uptime guarantee SLA*
Synchronous replication
Self-service online support
SSL enforcement for secure HTTPS access
Customizable spam filtering
Customize password strength requirements
Email routing and email gateway support
Customizable policies to filter email containing sensitive information
Email encryption using standard TLS protocols
Manage multiple domains from one Google Apps account
Email migration tools and API
Directory sync with LDAP systems
Email routing and email gateway support
Single sign-on API
User and group provisioning API
We’ve listened to many businesses share what’s important to them in building and growing a healthy business. What we’ve found is that businesses are looking for a low-cost, reliable, and secure messaging and collaboration solution that supports their business rather than challenges it. If your business finds itself identifying with some of these challenges, then you might be interested in considering the Google Apps solution for your business.
Take a look at the business advantages of Google Apps other customers have found out for themselves.
Business challenges:
How Google Apps solves these business challenges:
Google Apps is a web-based hosted solution, which means you can access Google Apps at anytime, anywhere you have an Internet connection. You might hear this type of technology referred to as “software-as-a-service” or “cloud computing”. “Cloud computing” or “software-as-a-service” is a computing model in which IT applications are provided “as a service’, allowing users to access these applications from the Internet (“in the cloud”) without needing to maintain the infrastructure that supports them. A simple way to understand the model is how people currently allow companies to run and manage their electricity rather than generating it within their home/office themselves.
With Google Apps, your data and the applications themselves are served from Google’s highly secure, scalable, and reliable data centers. Google actually builds its own data centers from scratch, so we’re able to have one of the lowest cost-per-server infrastructures in the world; which means that those savings are passed on to our Google Apps customers. Your business is able to offload the infrastructure costs and the effort it takes to maintain an on-premises solution, and focus those savings on more strategic IT initiatives.
And since Google Apps is web-based, your employees can be productive from anywhere, whether they’re at their own desk, using a different computer, or on the go with a mobile device.
Google launched Google Apps for Business in February 2007, and we have seen an incredible rate of market adoption, including more than 4 million businesses. We are signing up over 5,000 businesses per day on the Google Apps platform. And let’s not forget that Google Inc. itself is running its company of 20,000+ employees on Google Apps.
Our customers continue to find that Google Apps for Business is a great alternative of a hosted solution to other alternate on-premise solutions, such as Microsoft® Exchange. Here are some of their reasons why:
To help your business make the switch to Google Apps easier, we’ve enabled a smooth IMAP migration from other platforms to Google Apps; this allows administrators to migrate a handful or a few thousand user mailboxes from an existing mail system to corresponding Google Apps mail accounts. We currently support migration from Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003, Cyrus IMAP Server, Courier-IMAP, and Dovecot via the IMAP protocol. IMAP migration is only available in Google Apps for Business. If you currently run one of the supported legacy systems, you can get more details in our IMAP migration overview.
Our Google Apps solution for businesses is a packaged product of Google’s best messaging and collaboration applications, among which include Gmail™, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites, and Google Video.
You may have had experience using many of these applications with your user@gmail.com account, and while these applications are similar, we have enhanced them in Google Apps for Business with these critical differences:
1. Google Apps is for your business
When you sign up for Google Apps for your business, you sign up with your own company domain name. So rather than having a user@gmail.com email address, you would create or maintain a company email address such as user@company.com. There is an IT administrative control panel that is built into Google Apps for your business where an IT administrator can manage and control the user accounts across your company domain.
2. Enhanced business-oriented features
Though our product engineers are continually enhancing our Google applications for our free consumers, they are also adding separate, enhanced features to the Google Apps applications that are more oriented for business purposes. Here are just a few things you can do in Google Apps for your business that’s not available in our free consumer applications:
We understand that employees want to be able to work where they want when they want, to do so they are taking the data with them. Businesses are finding themselves in the position where more and more employees are burning corporate data onto CD/DVD, thumb drives, putting data on their home machines to work on in the evenings and weekends. This has created serious security concerns, because not only do these incidents expose the data to unwanted eyes but often times we lose the data permanently since much of data resides on laptops or desktops.
As such, we take the privacy and security of our Google Apps customer data very seriously. Security is core to our DNA at Google. Our products are designed with security considerations upfront, not as afterthoughts, and our Security team is comprised of some of the world’s leading experts in information, application and network security. Our infrastructure is composed of tens of thousands of identical systems, and we have custom built hardware. Our machines are built on a custom Linux software stack that is hardened and only has the necessary components and services to run the Google requirements, making it easy to uniformly update of all systems. Each single piece of data is replicated in multiple datacenters, so your Google Apps email is replicated to a primary and a backup data center, that are replicated in real time. We also undergo regular security reviews by third parties and SAS 70 audits by an independent third party.
We fully believe in the security of our Google Apps environment that we store our own Google corporate data in the same environment.
Also keep in mind the following:
In addition to messaging and collaboration solutions like Gmail and Docs, Google Apps also gives you access to a large variety of additional enterprise applications through the Google Apps Marketplace. These applications can help you with your most common business functions like sales, marketing and finance. Many applications can directly interoperate with Gmail, Calendar, Docs and contacts, helping you to do your work faster and more efficiently.
Absolutely. If you already have a company domain name, or need to create a new one, Google Apps can meet your needs. Each user at your domain will get a Google Apps account branded with your own domain name. Email addresses take the format ‘username@yourdomain.com.’
Google Sites is designed to make it easy for employees to create and collaborate on internal sites for their projects, teams and departments. You can also make a public website with Google Sites, but most businesses prefer to go with a traditional web hosting solution for their public sites.
If you’re looking for more dynamic or advanced web solutions for your public web site, you may want to run Google Apps in addition to a web host. Any web host that provides the technology or platform you need to run your services should work with Google Apps. Two of our web host partners that register domains are Enom and Go Daddy.
Businesses who want to run an on-premise email solution alongside Google Apps are looking to either:
1. Test Google Apps while running their existing mail solution as an interim transitional step between a on-premises email solution and a full hosted email solution.
2. Use Google Apps as a back-up to their on-premise solution, such as Exchange
Both scenarios are definitely possible with Google Apps. Google Apps for Business generally provides the flexibility to do whatever you need to do with your email, it’s just a question of how much configuration you have to do on your end for your specific business needs. Once everything is in place, and incoming/outgoing email is being captured in Google Apps, you will be able to move over seamlessly to Google Apps should the need arise. We think that as you come to be comfortable with the cost, reliability, and convenience of Google-hosted email, you and your users will be able to transition over to Google Apps as a complete solution.
You can either a) route your domain’s mail with an MX record change directly to Google Apps, and have it delivered to Google Apps mailboxes, and then passed onto your existing server,
or b) set up an intermediary mail gateway that can dual-deliver mail to both Google Apps and your existing mail server. This should ensure that incoming mail is available in both systems.
For outbound mail, you will have to set up your existing mail system to send your domain’s mail through Google Apps.
We also have a directory sync tool via a Single-Sign-On (SSO) API so that your business’ active directory integrates seamlessly alongside Google Apps. Google Apps Single Sign-on API lets you:
If you are interested in deploying Google Apps, but require SSO or LDAP integration, we recommend one of two solutions:
1. You can use the SSO API to sync users’ names and passwords when a user sets them on your system. While this will not keep your users’ passwords exactly in sync, it does allow our system to have the same password as your sso. This also allows for increased access to our system beyond the web interface.
2. Google Apps’ SAML 2.0-based SSO integration allows you to hold all your users’ accounts and passwords without the need for Google Apps to hold any user passwords.
Google Apps can work with Outlook and other application clients, so your employees can continue using a familiar interface on the front-end, while Google Apps’ servers works on the back-end, helping you save on significant costs for your business.
Microsoft Outlook
Product | Recommendation | Details |
---|---|---|
Email: | Google Sync for Microsoft Outlook | Fast mail sync |
Calendar: | Google Sync for Microsoft Outlook | Calendar sync for all recurrence patterns |
Contacts: | Google Sync for Microsoft Outlook | Contacts sync for all Outlook fields, Global Address List for autocomplete and contacts lookup, Free/busy lookup |
Apple Mail & iCal
Product | Recommendation | Details |
---|---|---|
Email: | IMAP | Two-way synchronization, Folder synchronization, and Manage multiple accounts. |
Calendar: | CalDAV on Apple iCal | Two-way synchronization of Calendar events. |
Contacts: | With Partner Add-ons or iPhone | Two-way contact syncing is available through additional partner solutions or with an iPhone connected using Mac OS X 10.5.3+. |
Mozilla Thunderbird & Sunbird
Product | Recommendation | Details |
---|---|---|
Email: | IMAP | Two-way synchronization, Folder synchronization, and Manage multiple accounts. |
Calendar: | CalDav on Sunbird | – |
Contacts: | – | – |
It is very easy to have multiple domain names use a single Google Apps account where you own all of the domains. There are two ways for one organization to use multiple domain names: with multiple domains or with multiple domain aliases. The name of a user’s domain appears after the @ symbol in his or her email address. By adding a domain alias, you give every user in your domain a second email address (with the alias after the @). For example, if your domain is solarmora.com and you add solarmora.net as a domain alias, every user@solarmora.com will also receive mail addressed to user@solarmora.net. When you want two names that refer to two distinct ranges of users, you want two separate domains. When you associate multiple separate domains with your Google Apps account, you have more flexibility in how you assign usernames. The same username can refer to different users in different domains; for example, mary@subsidiaryA.com and mary@subsidiaryB.com can be different users. With a domain alias, the same username in both domains must refer to the same user. There is no charge for adding domains or domain aliases; you pay for total number of distinct user accounts regardless of how many different domains they belong to.
Each account can currently send email to 2,000 external recipients per day to prevent abuse of our system and to help fight spam. If one of your mail accounts reaches the limit, the account will be temporarily unable to send mail.
Google Apps is accessible from a variety of mobile phones, including BlackBerry devices, the iPhone, Windows Mobile and many less powerful mobile phones. We offer multiple syncing capabilities so that you can access your Google Apps account when you’re on the go.
Google’s security and compliance services, powered by Postini, offer capabilities that many businesses use to satisfy their compliance requirements with a variety of regulations, such as HIPAA/FERPA, among others. Generally, an organization must decide whether its use of our products is compliant with any regulations the company may be subject to.
Google Apps does not support Google Apps and Google Apps for Business user accounts as part of the same organization’s Google Apps account.
End of support for Internet Explorer 9 - November 05, 2013
New version of the Google bar - October 31, 2013
Calendar events that update when Google Groups change - November 05, 2013
Hangouts can now be enabled for domains using Google Apps Vault - October 21, 2013
Domain-restricted Google+ communities - November 05, 2013
Share Docs, Slides and Drawings with people who do not have a Google Account - October 07, 2013
Domain labels, Mobile updates and a new API for using Google+ at work - August 14, 2013
Monitor user logins, storage consumption and apps usage with the Admin SDK - October 01, 2013
Google Apps Directory Sync version 3.2.1 now available - August 06, 2013
Full screen option in the new Gmail compose experience - July 30, 2013
Email alerts for Admins - August 06, 2013
Print Google Forms in a fillable format - June 28, 2013
New URL and multiple account sign-in for the Admin console - August 06, 2013
Scheduled release updates for June 5th, 201 - June 06, 2013
Unified page for managing themes, settings and fonts in Google Sites - June 28, 2013
A new inbox to put you in control - June 06, 2013
New URL for Admin console - June 06, 2013
New Hangouts experience - May 17, 2013
Quick actions button in Gmail - May 17, 2013
Send money to colleagues and friends with Gmail and Google Wallet - May 17, 2013
30 GB now shared between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos - May 17, 2013
New way to access the Admin console - May 15, 2013
Transition to the new Google Groups user interface - May 07, 2013
Email and contacts import tool shutdown - May 07, 2013
Add events to Google Calendar from Gmail - May 07, 2013
Scheduled release: New chat experience in Google Drive - May 02, 2013
Cloud Connect shut down - May 02, 2013
New chat experience in Google Drive - April 29, 2013
Manage Chrome policies from the Google Admin panel - April 16, 2013
Deploy Chrome while supporting older web apps through Legacy Browser Support - April 16, 2013
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We are rolling out a new version of the Google bar for Google Apps users. This is designed to be simpler and more consistent with Android and Chrome OS. It includes notifications, a Google+ share box (if Google+ is enabled), and a new App Launcher with links to other Google products.
Google Apps users will have easy access to all the Google Enterprise products they care about. Google services that are not enabled will not be shown in the App Launcher. Marketplace apps will be listed under the More section in the App Launcher.
Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
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http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2013/09/updating-google-bar-many-products.html
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Customers using Google Apps Vault can now activate the new Hangouts in the Admin console. An amendment has been added in the Admin console that allows you to activate the new Hangouts on acceptance of the terms. This amendment outlines the change in Vault functionality that will exist until we complete the roll out of full compatibility. You will still have eDiscovery and legal-hold capabilities for your on-the-record/history-on chats, but the retention-purge function will not be available. To agree to the amendment, please log into the Admin console, go to Apps, click on Talk/Hangouts, go to Advanced Settings, and click “Enable Hangouts”.
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Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
For more information:
https://support.google.com/a/answer/3094760
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Starting today, new Google+ communities will be restricted to your domain by default if sharing is restricted in the Admin console. Posts in these communities are only viewable by people within the domain. However, you can still choose to create communities with people outside your organization so clients, agencies or business partners can join in. You can also make your community open to anyone at your domain or private, joinable by invitation only. Community owners can easily change settings, manage membership or invite other team members to join.
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Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/11/private-conversations-with-restricted.html
https://support.google.com/plus/answer/3379754
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We are making it easier to share Docs, Slides and Drawings with people who don’t have a Google Account. As a result of this change, files shared outside your domain to an email address not linked to an existing Google Account can be viewed without having to sign in or create a new Google Account. If a file is shared with edit or comment permissions, the recieving user must still sign in with a Google Account in order to edit or comment on that file.
When a user directly shares with individuals who do not have Google Accounts, those recipients will be able to view the file without signing in. Because no sign in is required, anyone may view the file with this sharing link until the person who the file was explicitly shared with creates a Google Account and expends the invitation. Once the person creates a Google Account two things happen: (1) the sharing link will no longer work for new users to access the file and the sharing dialog will indicate that the invitation has been used; (2) any user who accessed the file using the sharing link while it was open and signed in using their Google Account will be added to the sharing access list for that file and will continue to have access. Users with permissions to change sharing settings can revoke this access if desired.
Google Apps admins can prevent this behavior by disabling sharing outside the domain to people who are not using a Google Account via a setting in the Admin console.
Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
Release track:
Rapid release
This change is rolling out slowly to Rapid Release users starting today, once this rollout is complete, we will begin a slow rollout to Scheduled Release domains
For more information:
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?answer=60781
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Today we’re releasing three features to make it even easier to get things done with Google+:
– Domain labels in the mobile apps and on the web help you quickly identify coworkers’ profiles.
– The Google+ Android app now lets you create restricted posts, limited to your domain, as well as log in to and switch between multiple accounts.
– The new Google+ Domains API allows Apps customers and resellers to integrate Google+ into their existing tools and processes to streamline tasks such as creating posts, commenting and managing circles.
Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/08/mobile-updates-and-new-api-for-using.html
http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2013/08/connect-your-organization-to-google.html
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We have added a few new features to the Admin SDK Reports API to let you more easily visualize Google Apps’ usage and security in your domain. These new features include:
Security Reports
Login audit: View all web browser based logins with IP information for all users in your domain. You can use this data to monitor all successful, failed, and suspicious logins in your domain.
Authorized applications: View a list of third-party applications that users in your domain have shared data with. Gain visibility into how many users are accessing each application. Revoke access to specific apps using the security tab on Admin console.
Usage Reports
Storage quota: View user-level quota usage. This is available both as total usage and split by Gmail, Drive and Google+ photos for every user in the domain. Monitor which users are nearing their quota limits and acquire more storage if necessary.
Google+ usage: View 1-day, 7-day and 30-day active Google+ usage in your domain. See the number of Hangouts attended by users in your domain.
Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
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https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/reports/
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A new version of Google Apps Directory Sync (GADS) is now available for download. For details about the changes in this version please go through therelease notes.
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Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
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A full screen option has now been enabled in the new Gmail compose experience for Rapid release domains. Scheduled release domains will have this feature on August 6th, 2013. To try it out:
1. Click Compose.
2. Click the double-arrow icon at the top right of the compose window.
3. Enjoy a larger composition mode that displays all of the formatting options by default.
If you want to make this option your default view, click into the options menu at the bottom right corner of compose and choose “Default to full-screen.” The next time you click Compose, you’ll be sent to this mode. Both types of compose can be minimized by clicking the black bar at the top.
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Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
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Admins can now elect to receive customizable email alerts when certain events of interest occur. By subscribing to alerts, admins can stay informed and, when needed, take prompt corrective action. These alerts are also helpful when multiple admins work together and want to stay informed on these changes.
User Alerts: Generated when our systems detect suspicious or unusual login events as well as on user-level administrator actions such as additions, deletions or suspensions. Real-time alerts allow admins to review the changes and take corrective action.
Settings Alerts: These alerts are automatically generated when any change by administrators to applications, device management or service settings is detected.
These alerts are available in the Admin console under Reports > Alerts and will be OFF by default. For privacy and compliance reasons, Google Support will not be able to perform further investigation for a given alert. Admins can use the Email Audit and Admin Audit APIs to retrieve more information.
Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/08/email-alerts-for-admins.html
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You now have the option to print Google Forms. When you print a form, each question is formatted in a way that makes it simple for people to fill in when printed on paper. To try it out, just create a form and press the print button.
Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
Release track:
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Get to the Admin console more easily with the new, simplified URL (admin.google.com). The admin console now supports multiple sign-in, so admins who manage multiple domains can quickly switch between accounts.
Note: The old Admin console URL (www.google.com/a/) will automatically redirect to the standard Google login page. When non-admin users from domains that use SSO try to login, they will be automatically redirected to their SSO login page.
Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
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http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?answer=182076
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Google Forms: Users now have access to a new version of Google Forms. Just as with Docs, Sheets and Slides, you can now collaborate with others in real-time. Multiple users can work on the same form simultaneously. Unlike the previous version, forms are no longer tied to a specific spreadsheet. Responses are collected and stored only in the form. If owners prefer to see the data in a spreadsheet, they can specify a destination spreadsheet for the data at any time.
Features launching on June 11th, 2013
Gmail: A new GMail inbox option is now available to GAfB users to help keep different types of email organized, like messages from friends, social notifications, deals and offers, confirmations and receipts and more. You can customize your experience by simply choosing the categories you want. Rapid release users can enable the new inbox by clicking “Configure inbox” under the gear menu in Gmail. The new inbox is also available in the Gmail for Android 4.0+ and Gmail for iPhone and iPad apps.
Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
Release track:
Scheduled release
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http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?answer=182076
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?answer=60224
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-new-inbox-that-puts-you-back-in.html
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If you use Google Sites, you can now manage your settings for themes, colors and fonts from the same place. The new page is designed to make it easier to adjust the look and feel of your sites.
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Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
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https://support.google.com/sites/answer/97520
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A new Gmail inbox option is now available to Google Apps for Business users to help keep different types of emails (messages from friends, social notifications, deals and offers, confirmations, receipts, etc) organized. You can customize your experience by simply choosing the categories you want. Rapid release users can enable the new inbox by clicking “Configure inbox” under the gear menu in Gmail. The new inbox is also available in the Gmail for Android 4.0+ and Gmail for iPhone and iPad apps.
Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
Release track:
Rapid release
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http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-new-inbox-that-puts-you-back-in.html
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Back in May we announced a new way to access the Admin console. Starting this week the existing Admin console URL (www.google.com/a/example.com) will redirect to a login URL at accounts.google.com. For SSO-enabled domains (without a network mask defined) only Super Admins will be permitted to log in with a Google password. Non-Super Admins will be redirected to the configured SSO login page.
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Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
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http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182076
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Apps customers now have the option to replace chat in Gmail and Talk on Android with a new version of Hangouts that combines text, photos and live video calls across computers and Android and iOS devices. The new Hangouts is designed to help bring all of your real-life conversations online, across any device or platform. Just as before, Apps customers can invite up to 15 colleagues to a video call.
Note: Hangouts does not support domain chat restrictions.
Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
Release track:
Rapid release
For more information:
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=3094760
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/try-out-new-hangouts-experience-in-gmail.html
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Getting things done in Gmail is getting easier. You’ll now see new quick action buttons that let you take action on a message right from the inbox. For example, you can RSVP to a meeting, open a document, and more without even opening an email.
Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
Release track:
Rapid release
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http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/take-action-right-from-inbox.html
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Google Wallet is now integrated with Gmail. In the coming months you will be able to quickly and securely send money to friends and colleagues directly within Gmail. It’s free to send money if a bank account is linked to Google Wallet or using your Google Wallet Balance, and low fees apply to send money using a linked credit or debit card.
Note: This feature can be disabled by disabling Google Wallet in the Admin console.
Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
Release track:
Rapid Release
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http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/send-money-to-friends-with-gmail-and.html
http://youtu.be/JA8m0JOoNYQ
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Google Apps administrators can now access the Admin console by visiting admin.google.com and logging in. If you are already logged in, this new URL will automatically take you to the Admin console. The old URL (www.google.com/a/<domain_name>) will continue to work for now.
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http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-google-admin-console.html
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We launched a new look for Google Groups in May last year. This design offers a new and improved user interface in addition to some popular features like:
– Collaborative inbox
– Rich text formatting of messages in the Groups interface
– Ability to move posts to a different discussion, mark it as a duplicate or assign it to someone
– Customizable roles and permissions for people
We will retire the old interface soon after June 10th. After this day, people will automatically be transitioned over to the new UI and will not have the option to go back to the old one.
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Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
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http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?answer=126169
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Starting today, Gmail’s migration tool for messages and contacts is being removed. This tool was primarily used by new Gmail account holders who wished to import mail and contacts from another email provider into their Gmail accounts. We are exploring new long-term solutions, but in the meantime users can still import mail and contacts to their Gmail accounts. Messages can be imported using Mail Fetcher and Contacts can be imported from CSV files.
Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
For more information:
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/10/import-emails-and-contacts-from-other.html
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/164640
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?answer=1041297
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Note: This is only available to people who have their preferred language set to English.
Release track:
Rapid release
Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
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http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/05/add-events-to-google-calendar-from-gmail.html
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Chat in Docs and Slides has a new look similar to what you’re used to in Gmail. You can now start a group chat with just one click. Simply select the new chat button at the top right and a chat box will appear, making it easy for you to quickly message everyone who is in the file. Additionally, if collaborators or viewers have an active Google+ profile, you will see their profile picture on top instead of just their name. This feature will be available in Sheets soon.
Note: Disabling chat in the Admin panel will disable it in Docs.
Release track:
Scheduled release
Release date:
May 7, 2013
Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/bringing-people-together-in-drive.html
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Back in March we announced that Google Cloud Connect will be shut down on April 30th. After today, users will no longer be able to use this product and should install Google Drive on their computer. Google Drive for Windows/Mac achieves the same desktop editing and works across Windows, Mac, Android and iOS devices.
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Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education
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http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?answer=3017040
http://deployment.googleapps.com/Home/user-resources/documentation-templates/launch-drive
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Chat in Docs and Slides has a new look similar to what you’re used to in Gmail. You can now start a group chat with just one click. Simply select the new chat button at the top right and a chat box will appear, making it easy for you to quickly message everyone who is in the file. Additionally, if collaborators or viewers have an active Google+ profile, you will see their profile picture on top instead of just their name. This feature will be available in Sheets soon.
Note: Disabling chat in the Admin panel will disable it in Docs.
Release track:
Rapid release
Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government
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http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/bringing-people-together-in-drive.html
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Admins now have the ability to customize 100+ Chrome policies for users right from the Google Admin panel. That means employees will be able to access pre-loaded applications, custom themes, or a private app web store from any computer — whether it’s the company desktop or personal laptop — when they sign-in to Chrome with their Google Apps account.
Editions included:
Google Apps for Business and Education
For more information:
http://www.google.com/chrome/work
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-chrome-features-bring-modern-web-to.html
http://support.google.com/chrome/a/bin/answer.py?answer=188446
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http://www.google.com/chrome/lbs
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End of support for Internet Explorer 9 - November 05, 2013
New version of the Google bar - October 31, 2013
Calendar events that update when Google Groups change - November 05, 2013
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