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2009-03-31Comms & Meetings
Themes for your Gmail inbox
Users can now personalize the look and feel of their Gmail inbox by applying themes. To enable this feature, administrators must sign into the administrative control panel, navigate to 'Domain settings', and select the 'Turn on new features' checkbox. Once enabled, users can access themes via the 'Settings' menu.
Release: Rapid • Rapid: 2009-03-31 -
2009-03-27More
Introduction of a standalone contact manager for Google Apps.
Google has introduced a standalone contact manager that allows users to manage their contacts within Google Apps without the need to enable Gmail. Administrators can enable this service via the administrative control panel by selecting 'Add more services' and adding 'Contacts'.
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2009-03-25Content & Collaboration
Introduction of the 'Find and replace' toolbar in Google Docs
Google Docs has introduced a 'Find and replace' toolbar that allows users to search for and replace text more easily. The toolbar includes advanced search options such as case-sensitive matching and regular expressions.
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2009-03-24Other
Administrators can now view charts on active users and disk space utilization from the control panel.
Administrators can now view charts on active users and disk space utilization from the control panel.
Release: GA • Rapid: 2009-03-24 • Scheduled: 2009-03-24 -
2009-03-24Other
Administrators can now view charts on active users and disk space utilization from the control panel.
Administrators can now view charts on active users and disk space utilization from the control panel.
Release: GA • Rapid: 2009-03-24 • Scheduled: 2009-03-24 -
2009-03-24Other
Administrators can now view charts on active users and disk space utilization from the control panel.
Administrators can now view charts on active users and disk space utilization from the control panel.
Release: GA • Rapid: 2009-03-24 • Scheduled: 2009-03-24 -
2009-03-24Admin & Security
Administrators can now view charts on active users and disk space utilization.
Administrators for Premier, Education, and Partner Editions of Google Apps can now access usage reporting charts. These charts provide visibility into active users and disk space utilization and can be found by navigating to the 'Advanced Tools' tab and clicking 'View Usage and Reports' in the administrative control panel.
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2009-03-23Comms & Meetings
Non-unique email addresses now allowed in Gmail contacts
Gmail's contact manager now allows users to associate a single email address with more than one contact. This means users can create multiple contact entries with different names that share the same email address.
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2009-03-20Content & Collaboration
Support for private gadgets in Google Sites for domain administrators.
Administrators can now upload private gadgets to Google Apps that are restricted to members of their own domain. These private gadgets are organized within a directory specific to the company's domain name, ensuring they are only visible and accessible to authorized domain users.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2009-03-20 • Scheduled: 2009-03-20 -
2009-03-20Content & Collaboration
Introduction of the 'User Start Page' page type in Google Sites.
Google Sites has introduced a new 'User Start Page' page type that allows users to create and organize their own personalized collection of gadgets. While site editors can add common content to the top of the page, individual users can customize the page to display their own personal gadgets.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2009-03-20 • Scheduled: 2009-03-20 -
2009-03-19Comms & Meetings
Administrators can now choose the name display format for users in Gmail.
Google Apps Administrators now have the ability to configure how users' names are displayed in Gmail, with options to choose between 'First Last' (e.g., John Smith) or 'Last, First' (e.g., Smith, John) formats. Additionally, administrators can determine whether to allow individual users to customize this setting themselves.
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2009-03-18Content & Collaboration
List View is now available for Google Spreadsheets.
List View, which provides filtering, sorting and row-by-row editing of Google Spreadsheets, is now available from your computer's browser.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2009-03-18 • Scheduled: 2009-03-18 -
2009-03-18Comms & Meetings
Gmail usage statistics are now available in Google Analytics for Premier and Education administrators.
Administrators of Premier and Education editions can now track and analyze how their organizations use Gmail through Google Analytics. This allows them to view data such as user locations, languages, and visit lengths, extending existing analytics capabilities previously available for the control panel, Google Docs, and Google Sites.
Release: Both • Rapid: 2009-03-18 • Scheduled: 2009-03-18 -
2009-03-18Content & Collaboration
Automatically collect respondent usernames in Google Docs forms.
Google Docs now allows users to automatically collect the usernames of respondents who submit a form. By checking the 'Automatically collect respondent's username' checkbox at the top of the form, a new 'Username' column is added to the associated spreadsheet to record the identity of the respondents.
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2009-03-17Comms & Meetings
10GB of Google Video storage is now included on an ongoing basis for each school with Education Edition.
10GB of Google Video storage is now included on an ongoing basis for each school with Education Edition.
Release: GA • Rapid: 2009-03-17 • Scheduled: 2009-03-17