Welcome to the newest Google Apps product called Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook

One of the things we have noticed when it comes to email is people like choice. When they choose to make the jump to Google Apps from their old mail server for all the great apps and mobile support, some still want to keep inside the familiar environment they are accustomed to in order to check mail. Customers of Google Apps for domains who want to use Microsoft Outlook to manage their email can now do this much easier than before. There are many products on the market that attempt to synchronize with Outlook and now Google has an official release called Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook. Using a MAPI client instead of IMAP, Google Apps Sync improves the data exchange better than before. As one of the Google Apps Premier Resellers, DNAMail, a IKANO Communications Inc. company, is making this product available to their customers as part of the new product launch.

How it works:
Google Apps Sync is a simple install. Once in your Windows operating system, find Google Apps Sync in your program files and click on “Set up a Google Apps Sync User.”

Next step is to enter the email address and password for your existing Google Apps Premier account. Before installing the program, you will need to be sure you have the following: 

• Google Apps Account
• Outlook 2003 SP3 (11.0.8169 or higher) or 2007 SP1 (12.0.6335 or higher).
• Windows Vista SP1 or XP SP3

After installing Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, a new account is now enabled in your Outlook profile. The synchronization tool then attempts to bring in all your data from Google into Outlook including your email, contacts, and calendar items. Notes, journal entries, and tasks will not currently sync. Possibly some day since Google now has tasks enabled in Gmail.

 

What the sync product provides is familiarity. If you are accustomed to the Outlook interface to read mail and have not made the full jump to an all cloud approach, this tool can help.With the new tool, DNA Mail can ensure companies migrating to Google Apps Premier Edition can take care of all their employees, even the ones who want to continue to use Outlook as their main mail tool. Google Apps™ also offers collaboration applications companies can use other than email can calendaring including Google Talk™ chat and instant messaging, Google Docs™ document, spreadsheet and presentation sharing and editing, and Google Video™ for internal video sharing, and Google Sites™ intranet for knowledge sharing.

“Google Apps provides options in the email solutions marketplace,” says George Mitsopoulos, VP, and General Manager, DNA Mail. “We like Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook since it simplifies the amount of effort required by end users to use Outlook with Google Apps. The product also assists companies looking into Google for their communications.  These customers want to continue to use their Outlook software and simultaneously utilize other Google Apps and mobile services.”

 

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