I’ve been a huge fan of Google Apps for awhile. For this piece, I got a bit more specific and tried to focus on Google Drive. Obviously, there’s a lot of tie-ins with Google’s other products, given how much integration there is there. But, what I did here was really focus on the Google Drive bits. Hope you enjoy it! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-edge/22-cool-things-you-can-do_b_9843122.html
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5 Tools for Extending Google Apps
Google Apps has a nice little API that was developed for interfacing with it programatically. Well, a number of other vendors have been building around it for a little while and there’s starting to be a nice little suite. Here are some to look at: Manymoon: Allows more granular document sharing, mail management and security with your documents, tasks and projects Socialwok: Allows you to build a social network on top of Google Apps Smartsheet: Project, sales pipeline and resource tracking. Allows for collaboration with external users as well. Tripit: allows you to see your travel plans and collaborate with others on their travel plans (wish American Express Travel had…
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Google Apps from the C-Suite
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Migrating Mail to Google Apps from cPanel
If you have a web host that supports cPanel (a number do) then moving to Google Apps for Mail couldn’t be simpler. Just log in to your cPanel account and click on the Mail icon in the top left corner. From here, click on the last item in the list, Modify Mail Exchanger (MX Entry). Then click on change an MX Entry. In the Change MX for… drop down list, select the appropriate domain (if you only have one then there should be only the one to change and then enter aspmx.l.google.com in the to: field, clicking Change when you are done. According to the TTL value you will then…
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Integrating Google Apps with Open Directory
Randy Saeks has posted a paper on integrating Open Directory with Google Apps. It’s a nice read and takes a lot of the guessing game out of getting Google Apps to authenticate users based on Open Directory. Many of the steps can also be leveraged to use the GoogleAppsToolkit for LDAP running on other platforms as well.