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Google Apps: How To Transfer Document Ownership to Another User

It’s unfortunate but in most businesses, people come and go constantly. Last week I explained how to suspend a Google Apps account. This week I’m going to explain how to transfer document ownership from one user to another.

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Google Apps – How To Disable or Suspend a User Account

Google Apps lets you easily delete user accounts. This permanently deletes all Email, Contacts, Documents and Calendar items. This isn’t good if their manager needs to access the information for historical or legal reasons later. The Google Apps user administration tool solves the problem by allowing you to suspend an account vs. deleting it. Once [...]

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Google Apps – How To Disable Chat History and Force Off The Record

By default, Google Chat history is saved to users Gmail accounts and can be accessed under the Chats label. Although users can disable chat history recording, many don’t as they probably don’t even know the setting exists. If you’re a company that’s “Gone Google”, this is a problem. Why? I’ve worked in Information Security at the Corporate [...]

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How to Enable Google+ For Google Apps Customers

Google has officially opened its social platform Google+ to Google Apps Accounts including Google Apps for business, educational and the free service. Here’s how to activate the service in the Google Apps administrator console. Login to your Google Apps administrator account and visit the control panel. This can be done at: 1 http://www.google.com/a/yourdomain.com/ In the [...]

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Google+ Now Available For All Google Apps Accounts, Pending Administrator Approval

Google just announced that its social network, Google+, is now allowing Google Apps users to register. However, don’t expect to see it the next time you log in. And even so, it could be better to wait a little longer before setting up your Apps account on it.

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Gmail: Combine a Personal Email Account With Google Apps

If you have multiple email accounts hosted by Gmail or Google Apps, why not make life easier by combining them into one.  Here is how.  First, log into your Gmail account. Note – Although I will be demonstrating the process of sending Google Apps email to Gmail, the process can be reverse if desired. Click [...]

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How to Add Your Company Logo To Google Apps

If you loved our Google Apps account for your domain piece, thanks. Now here’s how to customize it.  Start by changing the logo on the user sign-in page. You’ll need the following: A logo in PNG or GIF format and scaled to 143 x 59  pixels. Access to an account on the Apps domain with [...]

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How-to Add a New User to Google Apps

Google Apps is a an amazing tool for a one person show to large businesses and if you’re not already using it, you should check out the Google Apps How-to from MrGroove, posted a while back which explains the step-by-step for getting your company up and running quickly. Once your up and running on Google [...]

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Can’t Get Gmail Snooze to Work? Try this. [Boomerang for Gmail]

A few weeks back, Google Software Engineer Corey Goldfeder posted a blog about a groovy Apps Script that he had put together: Gmail Snooze. Essentially, what this does is allow you to “snooze” a conversation and have it return to your inbox within a day or two or three or four or five. This is [...]

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How To Disable GMAIL Ads in Google Apps for Business

Here at groovyPost, I use Google Apps for Business to host all my email and documents online. Today while checking email, I noticed all these annoying ads and thought- Why are there so many ads in my Gmail client???  I’m a paying Google Apps customer! Turns out, Google Apps for business (perhaps edu version as [...]

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