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By: Small Business Apps

Small Business Apps — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:43:24 +0000

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By: Abelardo Diaz

Abelardo Diaz — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:31:20 +0000

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By: Abelardo

Abelardo — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:30:25 +0000

I think method one allow business enjoy all of Google Apps features, wich are more than Google accounts only, for example, Google Sites can use custom URL’s only in Google apps.

By: Ken Liu

Ken Liu — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:50:56 +0000

If you are setting this up for an organization or small group then it makes sense to use Google Apps for Domains. There are some additional features in calendar and docs that work on a domain level, like default sharing of calendars and documents for users on the same domain.

There is also a non-profit version of Google Apps for Domains that is a similar offering to the educational version – more/cheaper storage, I think.

In addition, Premium users get access to APIs that free users don’t get access to.

Google seems to roll out new features on the regular services before Google Apps – for example some of the newer features in Gmail were available on gmail.com account before they showed up in my Google Apps account.

I don’t think you have to use dual delivery; I think all you have to do is just not point your domain CNAME record for mail to Google’s servers, so all incoming mail will keep going to your current mail server. Not sure about email originating from Google like calendar alerts, though. They’ll probably work.

By: djchuang

djchuang — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:55:34 +0000

@Jason, @Larry: great insights & tips! I’ll look into dual delivery, although it didn’t seem obvious to me b/c our email server is plain ol’ POP3/SMTP and not Exchange nor Lotus Notes.

I’m leaning towards method #1 above, since we are looking for the collaborative features, and would like to keep email uninterrupted.

By: Brent Mitchell

Brent Mitchell — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:30:44 +0000

As Larry alluded to I would say the difference/benefit of method one is the collaboration and administrative control that it gives for the users in the domain. If your concern is only for one user I see no reason for setting up Apps for your domain if you already have e-mail hosting taken care of.

By: Larry Baxter

Larry Baxter — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:10:21 +0000

Method one uses the service “Google Apps for Domains” and gives you a lot of benefits such as the ability to create groups, automatically allow visibility of calendars for everyone in the domain, and/or or have visibility of individual calendar entries based on whether the user is part of the domain.

Method two doesn’t use “Google Apps” at all – rather it uses several applications with a normal Google email account. It’s far less flexible/powerful, although it avoids the setup of the Google Apps service (which isn’t that bad). Google Apps for Domains really is separate from regular gmail accounts.

Jason Powell’s post (and knowledge of Google Apps) are right on target. The link he has for dual-delivery setup works extremely well. That’s something you would want to lookup if you were not planning to use the mail feature, as I’m not completely sure of the effect of that on calendar invites. I setup Google Apps for our church and love it, though we’re using it for mail as well. (Many users simply forward their mail elsewhere, which is easy to setup)

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By: Small Business Apps

Small Business Apps — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:55:53 +0000

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Domains J — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:10:25 +0000

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By: Jason Powell

Jason Powell — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:52:42 +0000

We have a Google Apps account for our domain gccwired.com working along side our Exchange server with no issues. In fact I can get my GCC email from either Exchange or gapps
It’s called dual-delivery setup and it’s very easy to do.
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=96855

Hope that helps,
Jason