*Complete Guide to Using Google Apps-1*
*Google Apps* <https://www.google.com/a/> for Your Domain is a software
bundle aimed at small and mid size businesses. Google Apps lets you offer
email, instant messaging, and calendar accounts on your own domain name (for
example, [EMAIL PROTECTED]), to keep your group close and build
its<http://www.nirmaltv.com//>online identity. So here is the detailed
guide on how to set up and
configure Google Apps for your domain.
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Google Apps has different versions like small business, enterprise,
educational and family or group. I'm going to explain how to configure the
standard version which is completely free of cost. The premier version is
available for a limited 30 day trial.
Once you sign up for Google Apps, you will be taken to the registration
page, where you need to enter your domain name or get a domain name for you.
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After you complete the sign up process you will get a confirmation mail and
after that you can login to your cPanel (the url of the cPanel would be
available in the mail). Once you log into your cPanel, you can configure all
your user accounts, mails, docs, calenders etc.
The service dashboard *(cPanel)* has the following options:
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Before I explain each of these settings, lets first configure our domain
settings. You can find a navigational link named "*Domain Settings*", this
will show you the domain settings. You can give a title for your
organization, select the language, time zone and add custom logo. The header
logo will be available in all the screens of Google Apps. Even you can also
create a custom logo.
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Once you have added your logo, save the changes.
*1. Start Page:* Start page is the page which allows your users to access
Google services and other information from a single place. The URL of the
start page can be customized to point to your domain. For this you need to
create a CNAME record in your domain and point it to Google. Once this is
done, your users can access the start page with custom URL like
start.mydomain.com where start is the new CNAME created for your domain.
The start page can be customized using the page editor. Here you can change
the look and style of the start page. Here you can select a layout, change
colors for text and links, add a header and footer and also add content.
Once you have made the changes, publish the content and all your users will
be able to login from the URL.
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*2. Email Accounts:* The advantage of using Email address with Google Apps
is that you can create unlimited number of Email accounts with your domain
which has 2GB storage space and all the features of Gmail, including POP3
access. For using this you need to change the Mail Exchange (MX) settings in
your domain. It should be configured to point to Google. Detailed steps on
how to change MX settings is available when you activate the mail service.
To access the mail, you can either use
*http://mail.google.com/a/yourdomain.com/* or you can customize the URL to *
mail.yourdomain.com* by adding a CNAME to your domain.
The next part of this mail will cover how to configure web page, calenders
and docs & spreadsheets.
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