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New Gmail code base available to IE6 users

Released on 9/05/2008

Users of Internet Explorer 6 can now access significant Gmail performance improvements as well as new features like colored labels, group chat, an updated contact manager, remote sign out and more.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Simply sign in to Gmail. If you don't see these new features immediately, you may still need to get the latest IE6 updates from Microsoft.

For more information:
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2008/03/gmail-codebase-update-and-new-features.html

Premier Edition now includes Google Video for secure, private video sharing

Released on 9/02/2008

Companies using Premier Edition can now share videos privately and securely among employees with Google Video at no additional cost. Videos can be uploaded, shared with specific permissions, and watched by authorized viewers with no special hardware or software. Each Premier Edition domain gets 3GB of video storage per user account.

Editions impacted:
Premier Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Google Video will be enabled by default for all new Premier Edition customers.

Existing Premier Edition customers who have opted in to 'Automatically add new Google services' from the administrative control panel will have access to Google Video shortly.

Existing Premier Edition customers who have not opted in to automatically get new services can manually enable Google Video from the control panel. Sign in to the control panel, click 'Add more services' and then 'Add it now'.

Administrators using a non-English version of the control panel must temporarily switch to the 'Next Generation' English version of the control panel to manually enable Google Video. Google Video will remain enabled after switching back to the non-English version of the control panel.

Once enabled, the Google Video service is available for Premier Edition users at http://video.google.com/a/example.com, but remember to replace "example.com" with your actual domain name.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/apps/collaboration

Flexible event reminders and calendar exporting added to Google Calendar

Released on 8/28/2008

You can now set custom event reminders, including multiple reminders for a single event. Reminders can be delivered over email, SMS or with web pop-ups. Google Calendar also now allows you to export all your events in the .ics calendar standard format.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
To set event reminders, open the details of an event, customize the reminder settings, and click 'Save'.

To export your calendar data, click 'Settings', choose the 'Calendars' tab, and click 'Export My Calendars' to create a zip file with your calendar information.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37242
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37111

Google Calendar interface improvements available

Released on 8/15/2008

It's now easier to manage multiple calendars in Google Calendar. Calendars that you manage and other calendars that you don't manage (but can view) are more clearly identified. Clicking the name of a calendar lets you show or hide that calendar in the main area of the window. To add a contact's calendar, add a public calendar, or import calendar data, click the 'Add' link near the bottom left of the screen.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Calendar to access these interface improvements.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/calendar.html

Google Docs makes it easier to set up and share a new form

Released on 8/15/2008

Google Docs users can now select 'Form' from the 'New' item menu to customize and send an interactive form. Form submissions are automatically recorded in a spreadsheet.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, click the 'New' button and select 'Form'. Customize your form and then click 'Email this form' to let people take your survey. You can see the results of your survey by clicking the 'View Responses' button.

For more information:
http://documents.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=87809

Gmail supports easier access to contacts when composing a message

Released on 8/13/2008

When composing a message in Gmail, users can now just click the 'To:' link to access Gmail's contact list. Before, the Gmail contact list was available through a link labeled 'Choose from contacts'. Contact sharing must be enabled in the control panel for this feature to appear.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
To select recipients from your contact list when composing a message in Gmail, click the 'To:' link next to the box for recipient addresses. Similar 'Cc:' and 'Bcc:' links are available if you click 'Add Cc' or 'Add Bcc'. Contact sharing must be enabled in the control panel for this feature to appear.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/gmail.html

SSL enforcement available as an administrative setting

Released on 8/05/2008

Premier Edition administrators can now ensure that users access Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites with HTTPS, so data is encrypted as it travels between user web browser and our servers.

Editions impacted:
Premier Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to the control panel, choose 'Domain settings', check the box for 'Enable SSL' and save your changes.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=100181

Google Sites adds layout customization options and Google Docs integration

Released on 7/31/2008

Google Sites now supports custom layouts for header height, sidebar width, page width and text box width. You can also completely remove a site's header and/or sidebar.

To embed a document, spreadsheet or presentation from Google Docs, you can now browse your document list from within Google Sites rather than finding the file to insert in a separate browser window and pasting the link into Google Sites.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Team Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
To change your site's page layout, click 'Settings', then 'Appearance', then 'Site Elements'. Click the 'Change site layout' button to make your changes.

To embed a document, spreadsheet or presentation into a page, click the 'Edit page' button, click 'Insert', choose the type of file to embed and then choose the right file from your Google Docs list.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/sites.html

Gmail adds 'My Contacts' and 'Suggested Contacts'

Released on 7/16/2008

Gmail now adds people you email with to your contact list after several correspondences, rather than after you email someone for the first time. Contacts you add manually or through an import are also saved in 'My Contacts'. People you haven't had many email exchanges with are auto-added to 'Suggested Contacts', and you can move those people to 'My Contacts' at any time.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Gmail and click 'Contacts' to browse 'My Contacts' and 'Suggested Contacts'.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/gmail.html

Document, spreadsheet and presentation templates now available in Google Docs

Released on 7/16/2008

Instead of starting from scratch, Google Docs now offers a wide range of document, spreadsheet and presentation templates that you can use to quickly get started on new projects.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, click 'New' and then click 'From template...' to access the template gallery.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Google Calendar adds support for 8 new languages

Released on 7/15/2008

Google Calendar now supports Google Calendar now supports US English, UK English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Filipino/Tagalog, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Turkish, Hungarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Latvian, Romanian, Lithuanian, Slovenian and Polish.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
Latvian, Romanian, Filipino/Tagalog, Serbian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Hindi and Indonesian

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Calendar, click 'Settings', and select the interface language you prefer.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/calendar.html

Google Sites supports custom site URLs

Released on 7/10/2008

Update: some of you may not see this new feature yet; we are rolling it out over the next week.

Administrators can now map public sites hosted on Google Sites to their own domains. Sites can be mapped individually to a specific URL, like http://www.example.com, and as a group under a specific URL, like http://sites.example.com/[name of site].

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier and Education Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to the control panel and choose 'Sites' from the 'Service settings' menu. Click the 'Web address mapping' tab and configure the URL where you want your site to be available.

For more information:
http://sites.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=99448

Google Spreadsheets adds full-sheet gadgets and charts, new functions and number formats, and more

Released on 7/03/2008

Google Spreadsheets now includes the following enhancements:
– Gadgets and charts can be displayed in full-sheet view
– Numbers can now be displayed in scientific notation format
– New functions to convert information between binary, octal, decimal and hex
– Form improvements including a new scale question type and required questions
– Ability to reassign ownership of a spreadsheet to a different user
– Keyboard shortcuts for today's date (ctrl+;) and time (ctrl+shift+;)

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Google Talk available for the iPhone

Released on 7/03/2008

You can now access Google Talk from the iPhone to instant message with your contacts on the go.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
From your iPhone's browser, visit http://talkgadget.google.com/a/example.com/talkgadget/m. Be sure to replace 'example.com' with your actual domain name.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/mobile.html

Google Docs supports PDF upload, viewing and sharing

Released on 6/13/2008

Google Docs now allows you to upload PDF files to store them online. You can view uploaded PDFs right in your browser, and determine who else should have access.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs and click 'Upload' to locate and upload a PDF. To share an uploaded PDF from your document list, select the PDF and click 'Share' to specify who should have access.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Gmail adds support for 8 new languages

Released on 5/30/2008

Gmail now supports Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, UK English, US English, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Gmail, click 'Settings', and select the interface language you prefer.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/gmail.html

Google App Engine preview open to all

Released on 5/28/2008

Google App Engine is a development and hosting platform that allows developers to host web-based applications on Google's infrastructure. Google App Engine is now available to all as an open preview release.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign up for the preview release at http://appengine.google.com/a/your-domain.com. Be sure to replace 'your-domain.com' with your actual domain name.

For more information:
http://google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=91077

Google Web Security now available

Released on 5/08/2008

Google Web Security for Enterprise, powered by Postini, provides real-time malware protection and URL filtering with policy enforcement and reporting. An additional feature extends the same protections to users working remotely on laptops in hotels, cafes, and even guest networks without requiring any action on their part.

Editions impacted:
Google Web Security can be used in conjunction with all editions of Google Apps messaging and collaboration services.

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Visit the link below to learn more.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/security/web.html

Site usage statistics enabled for Google Sites

Released on 5/06/2008

Google Sites now provides a simple way to track site usage, by integrating with Google Analytics.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Team Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Sites, open a site, and click 'Site Settings'. Navigate to the settings page for 'Other stuff', check the box for 'Statistics', paste your Google Analytics account ID in the box, and click 'Save changes'. (You'll need to sign in to your Google Analytics account to get your account ID.)

For more information:
http://sites.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=92369

Integrated Google Apps experience available on the iPhone

Released on 5/01/2008

If you have an iPhone (or an iPod Touch), Google Apps is now available with a streamlined mobile interface, where you can easily bookmark a single web address and seamlessly switch between applications.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English, UK English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Swedish

How to access what's new:
Bookmark http://www.google.com/m/a/your-domain.com from your iPhone's browser. Be sure to replace 'your-domain.com' with your actual domain name.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/mobile.html

Google Presentations adds speaker notes and YouTube video embedding

Released on 4/25/2008

You can now add speaker notes and embed YouTube videos in Google Presentations.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, open a presentation and click the speaker notes icon at the bottom right of the screen to add speaker notes. Click 'Start presentation' and then click 'View speaker notes' to see your notes.

To embed a video in a presentation, open a presentation for editing, click 'Insert video' and search for the video you want to embed.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Google Docs allows CSS customization for documents

Released on 4/25/2008

Users can now customize the cascading style sheet (CSS) for their documents. This provides advanced controls for page design, layout and formatting.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs and open a document. Then click 'Edit' from the menu bar and then 'Edit CSS...' to open the CSS editing window.

For more information:
http://documents.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=94168

Google Calendar Sync now syncs more Outlook events

Released on 4/23/2008

Previously, your Google Apps email address needed to be the organizer or an attendee of your Microsoft Outlook events for the Outlook events to sync to your Google Calendar. Now, when you choose to do a 2-way sync or a 1-way sync from Outlook calendar to Google Calendar, all of your Outlook events will be synced to your Google Calendar.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
To download Google Calendar Sync, visit http://dl.google.com/googlecalendarsync/GoogleCalendarSync_Installer.exe.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/users/bin/answer.py?answer=89955

AuthSub enabled for Google Apps accounts

Released on 4/14/2008

AuthSub is an authentication proxy service bundled with the Google Data APIs, which lets users gives 3rd party applications secure access to their Google Apps service data without having to trust those applications with their usernames and passwords.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
All

How to access what's new:
If you're a developer, visit the AuthSub documentation page to learn more about enabling AuthSub for your web applications. (see link below)

For more information:
http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/AuthForWebApps.html

Google Docs adds improved search and saved searches

Released on 4/08/2008

Google Docs now lets you run advanced searches for documents, spreadsheets and presentations. You can search by document type, date modified, who the documents are shared with and more. Once you set up a search, you can save your search criteria to easily run the same search at a later time

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs and click "Show search options". After entering your search criteria, click "Save this search" to have Google Docs remember the properties for your search. To run a saved search, choose the search you want from the "Saved searches" menu in the left panel or next to the search box at the top of the screen.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Google Presentations allows export to PowerPoint

Released on 4/08/2008

You can now export a Google Presentation to the PowerPoint (.ppt) file format.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, open a presentation and choose "Save as PPT" from the "File" menu.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Google App Engine preview now available

Released on 4/08/2008

Google App Engine is a development and hosting platform that allows developers to host web-based applications on Google's infrastructure. Google App Engine is currently available as a limited preview release.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign up for the preview release at http://appengine.google.com/a/your-domain.com. Be sure to replace 'your-domain.com' with your actual domain name.

For more information:
http://google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=91077

Google Email Uploader available

Released on 4/04/2008

The Google Email uploader allows users to import messages and contacts stored locally in Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express and Thunderbird into Gmail.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Visit the Google Email Uploader homepage to download the application. (see link below)

For more information:
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/email_uploader.html

Google Docs now supports colored folders and improved document ownership controls

Released on 3/26/2008

In the Google Docs document list, you can now change the colors of folders to help you organize your files more effectively. Also, users can now transfer ownership of documents and presentations, so the creator doesn't need to completely delete the file if she no longer wants to have that document or presentation in her document list.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
To change the color of a folder, sign in to Google Docs, select a folder and click the 'Choose color' link. To transfer ownership of a document or presentation, right click the file in your document list and click 'Change Owner'.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

New toolbar and menus available in Google Documents

Released on 3/26/2008

Google Docs now has an improved menu bar when you're editing a document. You can select features from menus, or click icons in the toolbar for frequently-used features. The 'Save' and 'Save & Close' buttons also now appear above the toolbar.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs and open any document.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Google Docs adds support for 8 new languages

Released on 3/25/2008

Google Docs now supports US English, UK English, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese. Hebrew and Arabic are also supported for documents and presentations, but not spreadsheets.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu.

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, click 'Settings', and select the interface language you prefer.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Gmail code base update and new features available

Released on 3/21/2008

Gmail's faster, more flexible new codebase is now becoming generally available to Google Apps users. This change brings a faster interface and several new features including group chat from the browser, a streamlined contact manager, colored message labels, improved keyboard shortcuts and bookmarkable messages and searches.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier and Education Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Just sign in to Gmail. You'll know when you're in new version of Gmail when you see a link for "Older version" at the top right of the screen.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/gmail.html

Google Spreadsheets adds gadgets, revision notifications and more

Released on 3/19/2008

Spreadsheet gadgets let you visualize your data in interesting, intuitive ways. For example, you can see addresses on an interactive map, or create dynamic time series charts that let you zoom in and scroll through a graph.

Revision notifications let you set up alerts so you know when someone makes changes to a spreadsheet.

Other new features include the ability to select cells for formulas with arrow keys, an expanded color palette, text auto-complete from other cells in the same column, a new function auto-complete feature, and new sort(), filter() and unique() functions.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, open a spreadsheet, and click the 'Add' button in the toolbar. (The icon looks like a bar chart.) Then select "Gadget..." to see all the gadget options.

See links below for other feature access instructions.

For more information:
http://documents.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/topic.py?topic=14187
http://documents.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=91588
http://documents.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=92022

Google Calendar sync application for Microsoft Outlook available

Released on 3/05/2008

Users can now synchronize their Google Calendar accounts with their Microsoft Outlook calendars. Synchronization works in both directions, or users can choose to only sync in one direction.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
To download Google Calendar Sync, visit http://dl.google.com/googlecalendarsync/GoogleCalendarSync_Installer.exe.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/users/bin/answer.py?answer=89955

Google Sites available

Released on 2/28/2008

Google Sites lets users instantly create collaborative workspaces to share all kinds of information, including attachments and content from other Google applications.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Sites and click 'Create a site' to get started.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/sites.html

Gmail adds support for one new language

Released on 2/22/2008

Gmail now supports Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, UK English, US English, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
Malay

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Gmail, click 'Settings', and select the interface language you prefer.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/gmail.html

Google Docs adds support for two new languages

Released on 2/11/2008

Google Docs now supports US English, UK English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese. Hebrew and Arabic are also supported for documents and presentations, but not spreadsheets.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
Arabic and Hebrew

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, click 'Settings', and select the interface language you prefer.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Team Edition available

Released on 2/07/2008

Now employees and students can bring Google Apps to their businesses and schools without burdening their IT departments for support. Team Edition includes Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Talk.

Editions impacted:
Team Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Employees and students who aren't already using Google Apps can visit the Team Edition homepage to sign up with their work or school email address.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/apps/business/index.html

Google Message Security and Compliance available

Released on 2/05/2008

Administrators can now add security and compliance services to their existing messaging solutions, even if they don't use Google Apps for Gmail. Inbound message filtering for spam, virus and phishing protection is available, as are outbound message policy controls and long term message archiving for compliance purposes.

Editions impacted:
Message Filtering, Message Security and Message Discovery

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Visit the Google Apps Security and Compliance homepage to learn more. (see link below)

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/security/index.html

Google Spreadsheets adds interactive forms and frozen rows and columns

Released on 2/05/2008

Users can set up and share online forms where form submissions automatically get fed into a Google Spreadsheet. Users can also freeze rows and columns to prevent them from scrolling off the page.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, open a spreadsheet and click the 'Share' tab. Select the option to invite people 'to fill out a form'. From there, configure your form and send it out to your list of recipients. To freeze a row or column, drag the row or column bar to the point where you want your spreadsheet to be frozen.

For more information:
http://documents.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=87809
http://documents.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=87809

Google Presentations adds PDF printing support

Released on 1/24/2008

Users can now save Google Presentations as PDF files.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, open a presentation and click ''. Then click 'File' and 'Save as PDF' or 'Print...' to see more options.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/users/bin/answer.py?answer=69064

Google Docs adds support for document headers and footers

Released on 1/07/2008

In Google Docs, users can now insert customizable document headers and footers.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, open a document, click 'Insert' and choose 'Header' or 'Footer'.

For more information:
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=86629

Document list improved in Google Docs

Released on 1/07/2008

The Google Docs document list now allows users to create hierarchical folder structures and share single or multiple documents right from the document list.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, create folders and drag one folder into another to create nested folders. Click the check box next to multiple docs and the click the 'Share' button to share several docs all at once.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Google Presentations adds more editing options and slideshow embedding

Released on 1/04/2008

Google Presentations now supports drag and drop image insertion from other Google Presentations and from web pages. Users can also add basic vector shapes to slides, import individual slides from other Google Presentations and from PowerPoint PPT files, and embed slideshows from Google Presentations into web pages.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, open a presentation and drag an image from a different web page into a slide to insert the image. Click the shape icon to insert a shape, and click the 'Publish' tab to see publishing and embedding options.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Admins can opt-in to new application features sooner

Released on 12/13/2007

The administrative control panel now allows admins to opt in to some new application features before they're generally available to Google Apps domains. This provides access to new, possibly less stable application enhancements.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
From the US English, next-generation administrative control panel, click 'Domain settings' and check the box next to 'Turn on new application features to my domain before they are rolled out to all Google Apps customers.'

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=82691

Google Sync available for syncing Google Calendar to BlackBerry devices

Released on 12/12/2007

Google Sync is an application for BlackBerry devices that lets users do two-way syncing between their BlackBerry calendar and their Google Calendar.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
From your phone's browser, visit m.google.com/sync to download the application.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/google.com/bin/answer.py?answer=83036

Gmail Mobile application supports many new phone models

Released on 12/06/2007

The Gmail Mobile application now supports most Java-enabled phones, in addition to many smartphones and BlackBerry devices.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
From your phone's browser, visit m.google.com/a to download the application.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/mobile.html

Google Talk gadget adds support for 20 new languages

Released on 11/26/2007

The Google Talk gadget now supports US English, UK English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
UK English, Chinese(Simplified), Chinese(Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese(Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese.

How to access what's new:
Bookmark http://hostedtalkgadget.google.com/a/your-domain.com/talkgadget/client to quickly launch the Google Talk gadget.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/talk.html

Gmail in-browser chat supports group chats, emoticons and in-line media previews

Released on 11/19/2007

When users instant message using Gmail's browser-based chat feature, they can now have multi-user chats, add emoticons to their messages, and view media like YouTube videos right in the chat window.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Gmail, and start a chat session with one or more of your contacts. When a contact sends you a YouTube link, you can watch the video right in Gmail's chat window.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/talk.html

Mail migration API available for Gmail

Released on 11/15/2007

Businesses and other organizations moving from old mail solutions that support IMAP can use the IMAP migration tool, but for administrators currently on a non-IMAP solution, this API lets them build custom applications to migrate mail from any legacy system to Google Apps.

Editions impacted:
Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Read more about the mail migration API in our developer guide. (see link below)

For more information:
http://code.google.com/apis/apps/email_migration/developers_guide_protocol.html

Postini policy management controls improved for Premier Edition

Released on 11/13/2007

Administrators can now set email policy rules using regular expressions, which allows for inbound and outbound filtering on content like social security numbers, phone numbers and other structured information.

Editions impacted:
Premier Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to the Premier Edition administrative control panel and launch the Postini management interface to configure email policy management rules.

For more information:
http://groups.google.com/group/PostiniSupportForGoogleApps

Google Presentations adds more editing options

Released on 11/08/2007

Google Presentations now supports slide dragging to reorder slides, and right clicks to change slide background and to duplicate slides.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, open a presentation, and try these new editing options.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Google Calendar adds support for five new languages

Released on 11/07/2007

Google Calendar now supports US English, UK English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Korean, Japanese, Thai, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Turkish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Slovenian and Polish.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
Thai, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Slovenian, and Portuguese (Portugal)

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Calendar, click 'Settings', and select the interface language you prefer.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/calendar.html

Google Docs adds support for 13 new languages

Released on 10/30/2007

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Google Docs now supports US English, UK English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Filipino, Greek, Hindi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian.

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, click 'Settings', and select the interface language you prefer.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Gmail adds IMAP support

Released on 10/24/2007

IMAP access is now available to Gmail users at no additional cost, so people can connect client applications like Microsoft Outlook and Apple Mail, and mobile devices like the iPhone to their Gmail accounts. Actions taken while connected by IMAP will be reflected next time the user signs in to the Gmail web interface, or connects to their account from a different IMAP application.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Gmail, click 'Settings', and choose the 'Forwarding and POP/IMAP' tab. Select the option to enable IMAP, and follow the instructions to configure the device or application you'll use to access Gmail.

For more information:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=75725

Google Spreadsheets adds conditional formatting and hidden rows and columns

Released on 10/17/2007

Google Spreadsheet users can now do conditional formatting, which automatically changes the format of a cell based on the cell's contents. Google Spreadsheets also now lets users hide columns and rows.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
In Google Docs, open a spreadsheet, select a group of cells, and click the icon to change the cell background. Select 'Change with rules...' and add your conditional formatting preferences. To hide a row or column, select a set of rows or columns, right click, and choose 'Hide'.

For more information:
http://docs.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=78413
http://docs.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=58142

Google Docs adds mobile access support

Released on 10/17/2007

Users can now sign in and view documents and spreadsheets from their mobile devices, including the iPhone.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
From your mobile phone's browser, sign in to Google Docs at docs.google.com/a/your.domain/m.

For more information:
http://docs.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=77428

Gmail storage increased to 25 GB for each Premier Edition users

Released on 10/08/2007

Each Premier Edition user account now includes 25 GB of mail storage in Gmail.

Editions impacted:
Premier Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign up for or upgrade to Premier Edition, and sign in to Gmail. The email storage quota is noted below the inbox.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/gmail.html

Google Apps now supports custom email routing

Released on 10/03/2007

Email routing lets administrators pilot Gmail alongside their existing mail solution, accomplish dual-deployments, and support mixed messaging environments.

Editions impacted:
Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Learn more on the email routing overview page. (see link below)

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en-au&answer=77182

Postini message security services available in Premier Edition

Released on 10/03/2007

Custom message policy management and 90-day message recovery for accidentally deleted messages are now included in Premier Edition at no additional charge.

Editions impacted:
Premier Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
In the Premier Edition administrative control panel, click 'Add services' and select 'Policy Management and Message Recovery'.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en-ie&answer=77041

Google Docs now supports presentations

Released on 9/17/2007

In addition to creating and collaborating on documents and spreadsheets, users can now work on and share presentations in their browsers.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, click 'New' and select 'Presentation' to start creating new slides. Or upload an existing PowerPoint PPT file by clicking the 'Upload' button.

For more information:
http://google.com/support/a/users/bin/topic.py?topic=12610

Google Apps reporting API available

Released on 9/17/2007

Google Apps now offers an API allowing administrators to retrieve detailed product usage data and statistics across their domains.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Visit the reporting API reference page to learn more. (see link below)

For more information:
http://code.google.com/apis/apps/reporting/google_apps_reporting_api.html

Google Spreadsheets adds new functions and formats

Released on 9/05/2007

Google Spreadsheets now lets users create functions that continuously query Google.com for information, like pulling real-time stock quotes from a company's stock symbol. Users can also complete lists using Google Sets. For example, if you know the first ten states in the US, Google Spreadsheets will help you fill in the other 40 states. Google Spreadsheets also now supports new text formats, like strikethrough.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, open a spreadsheet, and click the 'Formulas' tab, click 'more»' and then select the 'Google' category of formulas to use one of the new formulas. To complete a list with Google Sets, select the first few elements of your list, click and hold the blue selection box handle, and drag to the size of your full list, holding Ctrl (Windows and Linux) or Option (Mac) while you click and drag.

For more information:
http://docs.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=54198
http://docs.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=54199
http://docs.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=75509

Google Apps setup guide available

Released on 8/07/2007

Administrators configuring and deploying Google Apps for their organizations can now access a comprehensive setup guide to smooth the transition from start to finish.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions.

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Visit the setup guide in your browser. (see link below)

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/resources/setup/

Premier Edition adds support for 26 new languages

Released on 7/31/2007

Premier Edition now supports US English, UK English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Czech, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian and Brazilian Portuguese.

Editions impacted:
Premier Edition

Languages impacted:
UK English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Czech, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian and Brazilian Portuguese.

How to access what's new:
Visit the Google Apps homepage, select a language from the language menu in the upper right of the page, and click 'Compare Editions and Sign Up' to register for Premier Edition.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/business/applications.html

Education Edition available to qualifying non-profit organizations

Released on 7/12/2007

Google Apps Education Edition is now available at no cost to registered 501(c)(3) organizations in the US.

Editions impacted:
Education Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Visit the Google Apps landing page for non-profits and sign up. (see link below)

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/npo/index.html

Google Docs adds support for 10 new languages

Released on 6/27/2007

Google Docs now supports US English, UK English, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Thai, Czech, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Russian, Portuguese (BR), Dutch, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simiplified), Japanese and Korean.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Thai, Czech, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Vietnamese and Indonesian

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, click 'Settings', and select the interface language you prefer.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Document list improved in Google Docs

Released on 6/27/2007

The Google Docs document list now allows you to put documents in folders, filter by type of document, filter by who you share documents with, and more.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs to see the new document list.

Domain address book integrated in Gmail and Google Docs

Released on 6/22/2007

In Gmail and Google Docs, each user can now see all the other users from their business, school or organization in their contact list, making it easier to communicate and share with contacts by just typing the first few letters of people's names.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
In Gmail or Google Docs, compose a message or share a document and type the first few letters of a contact's name in the Gmail to: field or the Google Docs sharing box. Contacts from your domain will auto-complete.

For more information:
http://google.com/support/a/users/bin/answer.py?answer=6597

Mail migration tool available for Gmail

Released on 6/22/2007

Businesses and other organizations moving from old mail solutions that support IMAP can now move all the existing mail on their servers to Gmail using the new IMAP migration service.

Editions impacted:
Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Read more about migrating email in our comprehensive IMAP mail migration overview. (see link below)

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=61369

Google Talk gadget launched with group chat

Released on 6/21/2007

Google Talk can now be launched from the browser, so you don't need to use the Google Talk application. The Talk gadtget also supports multi-person chat sessions.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Bookmark http://hostedtalkgadget.google.com/a/your-domain.com/talkgadget/client to quickly launch the Google Talk gadget.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/google.com/bin/answer.py?answer=58339

Google Calendar adds current time line and attendee emailing

Released on 6/08/2007

Now when you're viewing your agenda, there's a horizontal line representing the current time so you can easily see where you are in your day. Also, now you can send an email to all the invitees of meetings that you schedule.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
To see the current time line, sign in to Google Calendar, click 'Settings' and make sure 'Show current time' is set to 'Yes'. Then view your agenda in Day or Week view to see the current time line.

To email all invitees for a meeting you've scheduled, view event details and click the 'Email guests' link.

Gmail allows viewing of PowerPoint PPT attachments

Released on 6/06/2007

With Gmail, you can now view PowerPoint PPT attachments in your browser without downloading the attachment.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
In Gmail, open a message that has a PowerPoint PPT attachment, and click the 'View as slideshow' link.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/users/bin/answer.py?answer=30719

Public calendar gallery added to Google Calendar

Released on 6/05/2007

Now it's easier to find interesting public calendars that people have shared, and view that event information alongside your own agenda.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Calendar, type what kind of public calendar you're looking for in the search box (like "Seattle Mariners schedule", and click 'Search public calendars'.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/users/bin/answer.py?answer=69242

30-day free trial available for Premier Edition

Released on 5/31/2007

Now you can pilot Premier Edition free for 30 days, to experience the benefits of enhanced administrative controls, more storage for each user's inbox, phone support for critical administrative issues and more.

Editions impacted:
Premier Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Visit the Google Apps homepage, and sign up for a free trial of Premier Edition

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editions_spe.html

Gmail allows 20 MB attachments

Released on 5/18/2007

Gmail now lets you send and receive attachments up to 20 MB in size.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Gmail, compose a new message, and attach a file.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/users/bin/answer.py?answer=6589

Google Calendar supports mobile browser access

Released on 5/18/2007

Google Calendar now has a streamlined user interface for accessing your calendar from your phone's browser.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
From your phone's browser, visit calendar.google.com/a/your-domain.com.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/users/bin/answer.py?answer=65923

Partner Edition available

Released on 5/17/2007

Internet service providers, portals and other organizations that support very large populations of non-corporate users can now provide Google's applications to their users.

Editions impacted:
Partner Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Visit the Google Apps Partner Edition homepage and contact us for more information.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/partners/index.html

Google Docs allows sharing with mailing lists

Released on 5/03/2007

Users can now invite members of mailing lists to view or collaborate on documents and spreadsheets.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier and Education Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, open a document or spreadsheet, click the 'Share' tab and enter a mailing list address in the invitation box. Make sure the 'Invitations can be used by anyone' box is checked.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/users/bin/answer.py?answer=66343

Google Spreadsheets supports charts

Released on 4/18/2007

The Spreadsheets component of Google Docs now enables users to create charts.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier and Education Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Docs, open a spreadsheet and click the chart icon in the menu bar.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/users/bin/answer.py?answer=63728&topic=11520

Google Apps supports Polish, Czech and Ukrainian

Released on 4/11/2007

Google Apps Standard and Education Editions can now be administered in US English, UK English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Czech, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian and Brazilian Portuguese.

Editions impacted:
Standard and Education Editions

Languages impacted:
Polish, Czech and Ukrainian

How to access what's new:
Visit the Google Apps homepage and select a language from the language menu in the upper right of the page.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/business/applications.html

Mail Fetcher added to Gmail

Released on 3/05/2007

Gmail's Mail Fetcher can download messages from up to five other email accounts, centralizing all your email in your Gmail account.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier and Education Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
In Gmail, click 'Settings', choose the 'Accounts' tab, and click the link in the 'Get mail from other accounts' section of the page.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/users/bin/answer.py?answer=21288

Google Apps includes Google Docs

Released on 2/27/2007

Google Docs is now available in all editions of Google Apps for creating and collaborating on documents and spreadsheets.

Editions impacted:
Standard, Premier and Education Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Visit docs.google.com/a/your-domain.com and sign in.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html

Premier Edition available

Released on 2/27/2007

The new Premier Edition of Google Apps offers more administrative controls, more storage for each user's inbox, phone support for critical administrative issues and more. Premier Edition is available to businesses of all sizes for $50 per user per year.

Editions impacted:
Premier Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign up for Premier Edition from the Google Apps homepage, or upgrade from an existing Standard Edition domain from the administrative control panel.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editions_spe.html