If you are a happy Google Apps For Your Domain (GAFYD) user but miffed that regular GMail users (non-GAFYD) get the latest and greatest app enhancements before you, fret no longer.
This may be old news to some but I just found out that it is possible to opt into receiving the latest features for GAFYD at the same time as your non-GAFYD counterparts. To do this, go to your domain Control Panel, click Domain Settings, scroll down and check the "Turn on new application features before they are rolled out..." option.
Now wait.
Update: You might have to wait quite a while. When I enabled this feature I only noticed a bleeding edge version of Google Docs when a new update was rolled out for the first time. I.e. clicking this option does not seem to upgrade your Apps retroactively.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Get Bleeding Edge Apps for Google Apps For Your Domain
Friday, May 25, 2007
Set Google Apps for Your Domain as Default Mail Client in Ubuntu
Recently, I read a great post over at the How-to Geek about setting GMail as your Default Mail Client in Ubuntu. Being an avid user of both Ubuntu and GMail I wanted to set this up as well. However, since I use Google Apps for Your Domain (GAFYD), the script didn’t work for me. With a little adjustment I got it to work.
To set this up, you need to do two things:
- Customize a short script and save it to your file system
- Edit your Mail Reader settings in Preferred Applications
Follow the instructions at the How-to Geek, but change the URL from Gmail to the URL used to access GAFYD. To do this, login to your GAFYD GMail account (but don't click any link after logging in) and copy the entire URL, including the parameter at the end. Now replace a small portion of the script provided by the How-to Geek.
Replace "https://mail.google.com/mail?"
With the GAFYD URL "https://mail.google.com/a/your-domain.com/?AuthEventSource=Internal&".
That’s it! Now continue with the instructions at the How-to Geek.