Google Apps for Free

Jason Noblehttp://jasonnoble.org

Slides are available Online

• http://slideshare.net/jasonjnoble/– Google Apps

Google Apps for Business (free)

• Gmail (Up to 50 users) (7.5GB/user)• Google Calendar• Google Docs• Google Sites• Google Reader, Blogger, Picasa (photos),

AdWords and more

Google Apps (paid)

• Unlimited Users• Google Video for Business• Google Groups for Business• 25GB email storage/user• Custom password strength requirements• 99.9% uptime SLA and 24/7 support

Getting started

• http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html

• Click Get Started• Enter your domain name– Google will register one for you at $10/year

Contact Information

Create first administrator

Login to Gmail

Accept changes to account

Verify you own that domain

•You can upload a verification file to mattesons.net•Select this option and then follow directions

•You can also add a CNAME record to the DNS for your domain•Selecting this option will give you directions

Google Apps Setup Guide

Helpful URLs• Control Panel: http://www.google.com/a/your-domain.com

– Setup Users, Applications, etc

• Mail: http://mail.google.com/a/your-domain.com– Check your email via Gmail Web interface

• Calendar: http://calendar.google.com/a/your-domain.com– See appointments, create, etc

• Docs: http://docs.google.com/a/your-domain.com– Access Documents, Presentation, Spreadsheets and more

• Sites: http://sites.google.com/a/your-domain.com– Add webpages to your site

Using custom domains

Using custom domains (cont.)

• For each service, you can change the domain name

• Instead of http://mail.google.com/a/mattesons.net your users can use http://mail.mattesons.net/– Useful for Docs, calendar, etc

Gmail Web Interface

Calendar Interface

Docs Interface

Let’s add some users

• Paul Smith (President)– paul@mattesons.net

• Hector Diaz (Admin Assistant)– hector@mattesons.net

• Ted Adams (Tech Support)– ted@mattesons.net

Adding Users

• Open the control Panel then Organization and Users Tab

• Click Create New User

Allow Access to other calendars

• Paul can provide Hector (Admin Assistant) access to his calendar

• Go to Calendar -> Settings– Click Shared: Edit settings

Access to other calendars

• Now when Hector logs in, he sees both his and his boss’ calendars

Publicly available calendar

• Add a calendar, make it public

Copy and Paste the code

• Copy the code google provides into your website’s page(s)

Any Questions?