We use Google Apps. Being the free (but educational) version we don't get support at all, yours will be different. One thing that bugs me all the time is that you can't make changes to email accounts en-mass. For instance, pop and imap are disabled by default when you create the accounts. You can't simply enable them for the whole domain all at once. We only had 50 users or so, so it wasn't a huge deal, but for bigger organizations...
Also, the "Google" default behavior for POP is annoying. If you want to be guaranteed that your local mail client will get its email immediately after arrival at Google's servers, then your account name in the mail client needs to look like this: "recent:[email protected]" I had three or four users out of 50 that would not get mail in Outlook for DAYS that was present in the webmail interface. With "recent:", your email will download to the client and be removed from the server. Without the "recent:", copies of the email stay there regardless of the setting in Outlook. There are settings in the gmail interface too for this, but again, you can't set this en-mass. I would set up a test domain and run through some scenarios. -- Mike Gill -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 10:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT: Google Aps I was just informed by my boss that we will activly be presuing using Google Aps Enterprise in our company and if the 30 day trial goes well, then we will be off Exchange and using Google Aps. After my initial almost fall over and hit the floor, and quick panic about how long I will have my job, I started to wonder about this a bit. I was asked what my opinion was and I honestly replied "I dont have enough information to even reply" Does anyone on this list have any experiance with somthing like this? Any links to how well this might scale in a 1500 user enviroment? Pros/Cons or reviews? I know even MS is pushing the Software as a Service idea. I dont even know where to start on this one, but my gut reaction is "are you guys crazy?" I dont know if thats even a correct reaction. Thanks Jeremy ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
