Friday, March 25, 2011

gPanel for Google Apps Update

The gPanel development team has been hard at work on some new features. We are excited to announce the following new features have been released into production.
  • Google released an update to their Gmail Settings API a couple weeks ago to allow us to read a limited number of the Gmail Settings. You can now view Gmail Settings for users for: Gmail Labels, Send As, Forwarding Settings, POP Settings, IMAP Settings, Vacation-Responder, Signature. We have always been able to set Gmail Settings in gPanel but now with the ability to know what they are before overwriting them gives our customers more administration and support power.
  • You can now set Send As email addresses for users.
  • A popular request was to import Shared Contacts directly from a Gmail account. In the past users would commonly export their Gmail contacts into a CSV file and then use gPanel to import the CSV file into their Shared Contacts. To reduce the number of steps for you we added the ability to directly import your Shared Contacts from any Gmail or Google Apps Gmail account.
  • Google Doc Discovery, search for internal content of Google Docs using the new search in gPanel. You can also search based on: exact title, title contains, doc type, and user.
  • Updated User Deletion Process, there are two new options when you delete a user in gPanel. The first is you can now choose to reuse the the user name immediately instead of waiting 5-7 days. The second is you can transfer that users documents they own to another selected user before the account is deleted.
  • gPanel leaves BETA, this is old news for those who noticed the label disappear at the beginning of 2011. We are officially out of BETA and moving full speed ahead on new features and improvements.
If you have trialled gPanel before but were waiting on one of the above updates to become a customer, please contact us to get a another free 14-day unlimited trial for your organization.

If you have any questions about these new features or anything else related to gPanel for Google Apps please contact us.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Cincinnati USA 2011 Innovation Awards Finalist


Promevo has been selected as a finalist for the "Outstanding Information Technology Innovation" category of the inaugural Cincinnati USA 2011 Innovation Awards in recognition of our Promevo gPanel for Google Apps product.

The Innovation Awards recognize innovative companies and people that show how new ideas can be developed into fuel for the Tri-State’s (KY, IN, OH) economic engine.

Winners will be announced on Thursday, April 14, 2011.


Promevo's Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialists

3 members of Promevo's Google Apps Deployment team have been recognized as Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialists.

All three of Promevo's certified specialists were members of the first 100 to be recognized worldwide in the new Google Certified Deployment Specialist program.

The number of certified specialists puts Promevo among the top of the Apps Resellers worldwide, and exemplifies Promevo's mission to provide industry-leading products, services, and expertise to the Google Apps community.

We are proud of our team and their accomplishments! Congratulations to all of the certified specialists out there who are focused on helping customers "Go Google" efficiently and effectively.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Google Apps Secondary Domain Support Released


We secretly released secondary domain support last weekend. This has been a very popular feature request by the community.

With secondary support gPanel administrators now have the capability to fully manage their primary and secondary domain members from gPanel.

Secondary Domain Management Features:
  • Create new secondary domain users via a drop down field in the new user form.
  • Manage secondary email / username alias's in all your members accounts.
  • Manage / view docs across your primary and secondary domains.
  • Manage sharing rights on all Google Apps Data across you primary and secondary domains
  • Move member accounts and all their data between your primary domain and all your secondary domains with one click.
Add a secondary domain to gPanel
  1. From the gPanel Administration menu, select the Account Status tab
  2. Locate the secondary Domain Management box.
  3. You will see that the box contains your current primary domain.
  4. Type in your Secondary Domain (Secondary Domain must be an existing secondary domain to your current Primary Domain in gPanel).  In our example we will add magicitcloud.com to our magicitbox.comdomain
  5. Click the green add button.
View full instructions in the gPanel help site