We recently launched 12 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 GovernmentLanguages 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 , document management 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/2010/09/app-tuesday-celebrate-google-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 .Get these product update alerts by email Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates
In May we announced details about changes to the Google Apps accounts infrastructure that would allow access to other Google services beyond the core suite of messaging and collaboration apps. This change will let users access many new services such as Blogger, Reader, Google Voice and calling-in-Gmail (US only), Picasa Web Albums, AdWords and iGoogle from their Google Apps accounts. The ability to opt in to the new infrastructure for Google Apps is now open for early adopters who meet the early adopter eligibility criteria and is currently being rolled out over the next few days. Early adopters won’t see the following functionality before the new infrastructure is feature-complete: - Administrators do not yet have the ability to turn off access to any of these additional services as they can today for applications in the core suite. - A few applications are not compatible with the new infrastructure at this time including Google Health, PowerMeter, YouTube, Web History, Buzz and Profiles.Editions included: Standard, Premier and Education EditionsLanguages included: US English OnlyHow to access what's new: In order to see the new option in the control panel to become an early adopter, your domain must meet the eligibility criteria: - Your organization needs to be using the U.S. English version of the Google Apps control panel, and all of your users must have their language set to English. - Your organization must not be using SAML for single sign-on. - Your organization must not have users with conflicting accounts that access Google advertising products or Google Voice. - Your organization must be using Google Apps Standard Edition, Premier Edition, or Education Edition. - The new infrastructure is not yet available in all countries. Note: - Additional applications beyond the core suite are not covered by Google Enterprise support or the 99.9% uptime guarantee. However, many services have self-service online help resources , and a subset (such as AdWords) offer enhanced support options. - A small fraction of Google Apps users have created personal Google Accounts based on their organization’s Google Apps email addresses. Users in this situation will need to rename these “conflicting accounts ” during the transition process, and we’ll help these users make the necessary changes.For more information: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/09/early-adopters-transition-to-new.html Help Center: New Infrastructure for Google Apps accounts Get these product update alerts by email Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates
Drag and drop functionality has now been added to Sites to make organizing your site easier.Editions included: Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for GovernmentLanguages included: All languages supported by Google Sites How to access what's new: Site owners and collaborators can drag and drop pages to organize the site by going to ‘Manage site’ and then ‘Pages’ in the tree view.For more information: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/09/easier-site-organization-with-drag-and.html Get these product update alerts by email Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates
A new event page in Google Calendar has been introduced. Among the changes such as simplified layout and making the style more consistent with other Google apps, some new functionality has also been added: - New repeating event editor - New tool to help you find a time for your event and work better across time zones - Ability to set your default working hours for eventsEditions included: Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for GovernmentLanguages included: All languages supported by Google Calendar How to access what's new: Repeating event editor: You can now see a summary of your recurring event on the main event page; if you want to edit it, you can use a window that opens when you select the "Repeats" checkbox. Find a time feature: If you have access to view other people’s calendars, you can click this tab to see a preview of their schedules and hover over their events to see what conflicts they might have. Working hours: In ‘Calendar Settings’, you can now specify what your available working hours are. Enabling this feature will show a warning to other people when they invite you to an event outside the hours that you’ve set. Note: In order to see the new repeating event editor and find a time feature, your domain administrator must enable the ‘Enable pre-release features’ checkbox in the Google Apps Control Panel under ‘Domain settings’. This new functionality is currently not available for domains that have enabled our Google Calendar Connectors API which shows data from other services. We hope to make this available to those domains in the near future.For more information: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/08/work-better-across-time-zones-with.html Find a time: http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=178219 Get these product update alerts by email Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates
When editing a document with other editors, you can now see the text that other editors are highlighting as they select it. This makes it much easier to collaborate on deleting and moving text items.Editions included: Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for GovernmentLanguages included: All languages supported by Google DocsFor more information: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/08/collaborative-highlighting-in-documents.html Get these product update alerts by email Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates
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. Gmail uses a variety of signals to predict which messages are important, including the people you email most and which messages you open and reply to (these are likely more important than the ones you skip over). You can improve the ranking in Priority Inbox by clicking the plus or minus buttons at the top of the inbox to mark conversations as important or not important. You can choose to show different types of messages in each section, to set maximum sizes for each section, and to hide or add a section altogether. You can customize your sections from the Priority Inbox tab under Gmail Settings or right from the inline menus dropdown arrow.Editions included: Standard, Premier, Education, Partner Edition and Google Apps for GovernmentLanguages 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”. - Priority Inbox is not fully available in Gmail for mobile. There is, however, an “Important” label on the mobile web app and in IMAP where you will find your important messages if you have chosen to show Priority Inbox. - If you only access your Gmail account through POP or IMAP, Priority Inbox won’t be fully available. If you select “Show Priority Inbox” from Gmail Settings in the web interface, you will see an “Important” label which contains your important messages. Note: This feature is being rolled out gradually this week to Google Apps domains and only to domains whose administrator has enabled the ‘Enable pre-release features’ checkbox in the Google Apps Control Panel under ‘Domain settings’. For more information: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/08/email-overload-try-priority-inbox.html Help Center Get these product update alerts by email Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates
We’ve introduced in-cell dropdown and validation to spreadsheets. This makes it easy to constrain the values of an individual cell to a specific range or list.Editions included: Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government Languages included: All languages supported by Google DocsHow to access what's new: 1. Enter data into a range of cells. For example, create a list of destinations on your spreadsheet. 2. Select the cell(s) you would like to validate. 3. Under the Tools menu, select Data validation... 4. Change the Criteria to ‘Items from a list.’ 5. Click the button next to the ‘Create list from range’ option and select the range of cells you entered data in during Step 1. 6. Click Save and the cell you chose to validate will have a dropdown arrow in it with the data in your cell range as the potential input values. If you want, you can set a cell to allow invalid data.For more information: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/08/in-cell-dropdown-and-validation-in.html Get these product update alerts by email Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates
We’ve now introduced the ability to reveal all formulas with one clickEditions included: Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for GovernmentLanguages included: All languages supported by Google DocsHow to access what's new: When editing a spreadsheet you can enable this view in three ways: Select the ‘Show All Formulas’ button on the top right; Select ‘Show All Formulas’ in the View menu; Click Ctrl ‘ (Cmd ‘ on a Mac.)For more information: http://docs.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=15115 Get these product update alerts by email Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates
Voice and video chat for Linux is now available. This supports Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions, and RPM support will be coming soon.Editions included: Standard, Premier, Education, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government How to access what's new: Download the plugin For more information: http://www.google.com/support/chat/bin/answer.py?answer=159499 Get these product update alerts by email Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates
The following new features have been added to Google Sites: - You can now add horizontal navigation to your site’s layout in one of three different options: boxes, tabs, and links. - You can now set your site to have a global footer that displays across all pages on the site. - We’ve added quick links to Google Docs embedded to Google Sites making it easier for collaborators to open embedded documents. - We also added a “Deleted items” section to site management making it easier to get to deleted pages and attachments.Editions included: Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for GovernmentLanguages included: All languages supported by Google SitesHow to access what's new: Horizontal navigation: You can enable this in More actions > Manage site > Site layout > Change site layout . You can also set the background, link and hover properties via More actions > Manage site >Colors and Fonts . Global footer: Set this footer via More actions > Manage site > Site layout > Change site layout . Deleted items: You can access this new option at More actions > Manage site > Deleted items . In this new section, you can choose to recover deleted items or permanently delete them manually. Deleted items can be recovered up to 30 days after they have been deleted, after which they will be permanently removed.For more information: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/08/horizontal-navigation-site-footer-and.html Help Center Get these product update alerts by email Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates