New Control Panel feature: Administrators can disable end-user forwarding in Gmail

By default, Gmail lets users automatically forward incoming mail to another address. As an administrator, you can disable this option to prevent users from setting up automatic forwarding.

When you disable the option in the Control Panel, users won't see the forwarding option in their Gmail settings.

Release track:
Rapid & Scheduled

Editions included:
Google Apps for Business and Education

Languages included:
All languages supported

For more information:
https://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2491924

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Mobile browser editing, editing on the iPad, and more new features now in Google Docs

The following new features are now available in Google Docs:

Mobile editing: Log in to your Google Docs on a browser on a supported device, and select the document you want to edit. Then, when you’re viewing it, press the ‘Edit’ button to switch to the mobile editor. If you use an Android device with voice input, you can also use this to add text to your document.

Text replacements: We have added the ability to substitute text automatically and being able to manage the replacements.

LaTeX shortcuts in equations: LaTeX is a document markup language that’s often used by academics to quickly type out complex formulas. In Google Docs, when you’re inside an equation you can type '\sqrt' followed by a space or a parenthesis to automatically convert the text into a square root sign √. Other examples of useful shortcuts are '\frac' for a fraction and shorthands like '\epsilon' for Greek symbols. Full list of equation shortcuts here.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
Mobile editing: US English
Others: All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
Mobile editing: Over the next few days, we’re rolling this out to English-language users around the world on Android with Froyo (version 2.2) and on iOS devices (version 3.0+) including the iPad. We’ll be adding support for other languages soon.

Text replacements: You can right click on a misspelled word, go down to the ‘AutoCorrect’ option, and choose a way of automatically fixing this spelling mistake in the future.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/11/editing-your-google-docs-on-go.html
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/11/faster-typing-fewer-mistakes.html

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App Tuesday: 8 new apps available for your users in the Apps Marketplace

Today we launched 8 new apps from 3rd party developers, available in the Google Apps Marketplace. Many of these apps are free or have free trials and include project management, data backup, resource management, and communication tools. You can add these integrated applications to your Google Apps subscription with just a few clicks.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
- Go to http://www.google.com/appsmarketplace
- Choose an app from the productivity, accounting and finance, or CRM categories, among others.
- Click the blue ‘Add it now’ button to add the app for your users.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/10/app-tuesday-brings-marketplace-apps.html

If you’ve #gonegoogle, and tried the #appsmarketplace, let others know what you recommend - via Twitter, Google Buzz or submit your suggestions for additional apps to us.

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Five new themes now available in Gmail

Five new themes have now been been added to Gmail:
Basic Black
Basic White
Android
Tree Tops
Marker

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Gmail

How to access what's new:
In Gmail settings, select the ‘Themes’ tab to view and select the new themes.

Note: Themes are only available in Internet Explorer 7.0+, Firefox 2.0+ or Safari 3.0+, and Google Chrome. You won't see a 'Themes' tab in your Settings if you're not using the newer version of Gmail on the browsers listed above. Please note that Themes are not available if you're using Internet Explorer 6.0

For more information:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/five-new-themes.html

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New service activity graphs in the Google Apps control panel

New service activity graphs have been added to the Administrator control panel. The activity graphs display information about the number of active users in your organization as measured by login activity. We display trend lines showing user activity for the prior 1-, 7- and 30-day periods for Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Sites.

Editions included:
Premier, Education Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
In the administrator control panel, select ‘Advanced tools’, and in the Reporting section, select ‘View Usage and Reports’.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-service-activity-graphs-in-google.html
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=142566

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Simplified sharing experience extended to Google Sites

The simplified sharing experience in Google Docs has now been extended to Google Sites. As with Google Docs, Google Sites can now be set to various visibility options such as: private, anyone at your domain with the link, anyone at your domain can find and access, anyone with the link (no sign-in required) or public on the web.

The domain administrator can set the level of sharing for the domain, so not all sharing options may be allowed. The new visibility option is always available at the top of each site.

With this update, the new “Anyone with the link” setting makes your site available to anyone that knows the unique URL, but blocks search engines from indexing the site. And for those times that someone sends you a link to a site but you don’t have access, you can now request access to that site from the access denied page.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Sites

How to access what's new:
When editing a site, select ‘More actions’ and then ‘Share site’ to see the new interface. You can also bring up the sharing dialog by clicking on the sharing visibility icon at the top of the site.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/sites

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Version history for uploaded files in Google Docs

Using “Upload any file”, users already have the ability to upload, store, and share any file up to 1 GB in size. Now you can upload new versions of the same file to your document list. Previously, each time you updated a file, you would have to upload the new version as a new file with a new URL, re-share it, and put in the correct folders again.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
Select the “Add or manage versions” option on any file, you can then upload new versions of a file, download previous versions, and delete older versions.

For more information:
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=50092
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-in-google-docs-and-google-sites.html

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New version of Google Apps Directory Sync now available

Release 1.6.20 of Google Apps Directory Sync includes new fields for user profiles and shared contacts, plus separate display names for groups.

Additional Profile and Shared Contacts Attributes:
- New fields are available when synchronizing user profiles and shared contacts. Specify these new attributes in the directory sync utility in Release 1.6.20 using the Configuration Manager, in the LDAP User Profiles Attributes and LDAP Shared Contacts Attributes screen.

New attributes include:
- Assistant’s DN: An LDAP attribute containing the LDAP Distinguished Name of the user’s or contact’s assistant.
- Manager’s DN: An LDAP attribute containing the LDAP Distinguished Name of the user’s or contact’s direct manager.
- Assistant’s Phone Number: An LDAP attribute containing the phone number of the user’s or contact’s assistant.
- Work Address: A set of LDAP attributes containing structured elements of the user’s or contact’s primary work address. All these attributes are combined to form the primary work address.
- Notes: An LDAP attribute containing the notes associated with the User or Contact.

Additional Group Attribute:
- Groups Display Name Attribute
When setting up group synchronization rules, you can now specify an LDAP attribute that contains the display name of the group, which can be distinct from the group email address.
Specify a group display name in the directory sync utility in Release 1.6.20 using the Configuration Manager, in the Group Search Rules edit screen.

Editions included:
Premier, Education, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
Download Page

For more information:
Release Notes

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Version 3.0 of the Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes tool is now available

A new version of the Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes tool is now available for download, with the following new functionality:
- Use of OAuth for mail/calendar and personal contacts migration. User passwords are no longer required.
- User provisioning can be run separately from migrations. The new version allows users to be provisioned in bulk prior to migration.
- Users provisioned by the tool are now forced to change that password when they first log in to Google Apps.
- Enhanced logging mechanism. All migration events for individual users are now stored on the user's Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes profile.
- Migration exceptions for users are now directly accessible from an embedded view on the Google Apps Migration for Lotus Notes user profile.
- Some interface changes have been made to views to enhance navigation.
- Domino Directory group migration now supports Group owners.

Editions included:
Premier, Education Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
Download

For more information:
Overview
Admin Guide (PDF)

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Unthreaded conversation view in Gmail now available to all Google Apps users

Gmail offers users the ability to switch between conversation view and the traditional message-based unthreaded view. When a user switches to unthreaded view, messages are no longer grouped together into a conversation, and each message is shown as a separate entry in the inbox. The inbox is still sorted in reverse chronological order.

Previously, this feature was only available to domains whose administrators has enabled the ‘enable pre-release features’ checkbox in the Control Panel. This is now available to all Google Apps domains.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Gmail

How to access what's new:
In Gmail ‘Settings’, go to the new ‘Conversation View’ section and choose to have that view on or off and click ‘save changes’.

Note: The mobile web-based view of Gmail will still be threaded, as will the Gmail Mobile Client app. However, if you are using a Blackberry, Window Mobile, iPhone, or Android device, you can access Gmail unthreaded in the native mail clients of those devices using Google’s sync tools.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/09/threaded-email-or-not-now-its-your.html

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Version 3.0 of the Google Apps Connector for Blackberry Enterprise Server is now available for download

The new version of the Connector contains the following changes:
- Support for BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0.2.
- Support for BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express.
- Support for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2008 SP2.
- Improved Dynamic GAL synchronization.
- Improvements to some calendar synchronization components to provide enhanced robustness and accuracy.

Editions included:
Premier and Education Editions

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
Download

For more information:
Help Center Overview

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New charts editor and chart types in Google Spreadsheets

New charts editor:
We’ve added a new charts editor that suggests recommended charts, matches your data labels and headers, auto selects colors, has a full size preview pane and more. The editor is designed to help you create the chart you need in just a few clicks.

New and improved charts:
New chart types have been added such as annotated time-lines, organizational charts, gauges, our popular motion chart (which makes it easy to visualize data changing over time) and more to our chart types.

Improved publishing:
It’s easy to show charts you’ve created in spreadsheets with the world. Publish your interactive chart on any webpage and it will update as you change the data in your spreadsheet.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Spreadsheets

How to access what's new:
When editing data in a spreadsheet, click ‘Insert’, then ‘Chart’ to view the new chart editor and chart types.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-new-visualizations-to-tell-your.html
Help Center: http://docs.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=15163

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Google Apps Scripts now available in Google Sites

You can now create, edit, and launch Google Apps Scripts from any Google Site. This allows you to automate business processes that involve multiple applications.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

How to access what's new:
When editing a site, click ‘More actions’, then ‘Manage site’ and ‘Apps Scripts’ to build a script.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/10/automating-business-processes-in-google.html
Google Apps Scripts Resources

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Drag and Drop images into a Google Document

You can now drag images from your desktop and drop them directly into a document. You can use image drag and drop with the latest versions of Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. We’ll enable it on other browsers, as soon as they support the feature.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/10/drag-and-drop-images-in-documents.html

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App Tuesday: 7 new apps available for your users in the Apps Marketplace

Today we launched 7 new apps from 3rd party developers, available in the Google Apps Marketplace. Many of these apps are free or have free trials and include project management, data backup, resource management, and communication tools. You can add these integrated applications to your Google Apps subscription with just a few clicks.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
- Go to http://www.google.com/appsmarketplace
- Choose an app from the productivity, accounting and finance, or CRM categories, among others.
- Click the blue ‘Add it now’ button to add the app for your users.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/10/app-tuesday-brings-marketplace-apps.html

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Priority Inbox in Gmail is now available to all Google Apps domains

Priority Inbox (Beta) is a new view of your inbox that automatically helps you focus on your most important messages. Priority Inbox splits your inbox into three sections: “Important and unread,” “Starred,” and “Everything else”. Messages are automatically categorized as they arrive in your inbox.

Previously, this feature was only available to domains whose administrator had enabled the ‘Enable pre-release features’ checkbox in the Google Apps Control Panel. This feature has now been released to all domains so that checkbox no longer controls this feature.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Gmail

How to access what's new:
- Users can manually opt-in to this new feature by clicking on the "New! Priority Inbox" link in the top right corner.
- Users can return to the normal view at any time by clicking on “Inbox” or by disabling Priority Inbox in “Settings”.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/08/email-overload-try-priority-inbox.html
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=29809

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New version of Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook® now available

A new version of this tool is available for download and will be auto-updated in the next few weeks. The following new features are now available:

- Support for Microsoft Outlook® 2010
Google Apps Sync now supports Microsoft Outlook® 2010—both 32-bit and 64-bit editions. Here are a few things to note about using Outlook 2010:
- Administrators: If you're pushing the upgrade to users via an MSI file, note that there's a separate MSI installation file for the 64-bit edition of Outlook, so be sure to download the correct file for your users. See the installation instructions at Administrator setup for Google Apps Sync.
- Only MSI-based editions of Outlook 2010 are supported, not Click-to-Run editions. If you've already installed a Click-to-Run edition, you can follow these instructions from Microsoft to switch to using an MSI-based Office edition.
- Using free/busy sync with Outlook 2010 requires installing this free/busy hotfix package from Microsoft.
- If you're running a 32-bit version of Outlook on a 64-bit version of Windows, and you need to configure Google Apps Sync via your Windows registry, be sure to create and modify keys in the correct location for 32 bit applications. For details, see the instructions on using the Windows registry at Configure limits and options via the registry.


- Rich contact data available in the Global Address List.
Microsoft Outlook® users can now see available data from all fields supported by the dynamic Global Address List (not just the name, email address, and one phone number as in previous releases). Newly supported global address fields include street address information, title, company, department, multiple phone numbers, and much more. Check out the complete list of supported fields.

- Enhanced support for custom From addresses.
When sending a message in Outlook from a custom From address created in Gmail: Your message no longer appears for recipients as "sent on behalf of your_primary_Google_Apps_address" as it has in past releases. Instead, the message lists only the custom From address as the sender.
When you reply to an email that's sent to one of your custom From addresses, Outlook automatically enters that address in your reply's From field. Making a custom address your default sending address in Gmail causes you send from that address by default in Outlook, too (it's the address you send from if you leave the From field blank).

Editions included:
Premier, Education Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
Download Page

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=148484

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Keyboard shortcuts now available in Google Sites

Keyboard shortcuts to common actions like create page and edit page for site collaborators have now been added to Google Sites.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

How to access what's new:
- In Google Sites, type Ctrl / (⌘ / on a Mac) to open the shortcut help.
- Full list of keyboard shortcuts.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/09/keyboard-shortcuts-in-google-sites.html

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Gmail: Unthreaded conversation view now available to users

Gmail now offers users the ability to switch between conversation view and the traditional message-based unthreaded view. When a user switches to unthreaded view, messages are no longer grouped together into a conversation, and each message is shown as a separate entry in the inbox. The inbox is still sorted in reverse chronological order.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Gmail

How to access what's new:
This feature is only available to domains whose administrator has enabled the ‘enable pre-release features’ checkbox in the Control Panel.

In Gmail ‘Settings’, go to the new ‘Conversation View’ section, select to have that view on or off and click ‘Save changes’.

Note: The mobile web-based view of Gmail will still be threaded, as will the Gmail Mobile Client app. However, if you are using a Blackberry, Windows Mobile, iPhone, or Android device, you can access Gmail unthreaded in the native mail clients of those devices using Google’s sync tools.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/09/threaded-email-or-not-now-its-your.html

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More tools for viewing document revisions

A new revision history interface is now available in Google documents that makes it even easier to see document revisions when collaborating.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
- To see the new interface, go to ‘File’, then ‘See revision history’ when editing a document.
- Click on a time stamp in the right column to see what changes were made at a given time or use the arrow keys to quickly scan through many revisions.
- Changes are color-coded based on each collaborator, making it easy to tell what has been added or deleted.
- Time stamps are also improved in the new interface.
- The interface also batches revisions into groups of changes to make it easier to understand how a document has changed over time. To see a finer-grained list of revisions, click ‘Show more detailed revisions'.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-tools-for-viewing-document.html

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