Ok, so the most common complaint I’ve heard from people who haven’t enjoyed their switch to Google Apps, has been the loss of the rich experience that using Outlook with Exchange brings a user.
Welcome the Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook! This will allow Google Apps Premier and Education customers to have full featured syncing with Outlook’s Mail, Calendars, Contacts and Google’s GMail, Contacts, and Google Calendar. Here some highlights from the Google Enterprise Blog:
Key features include:
- Email, calendar, and contacts synchronization. For email, the plug-in uses the offline Gmail protocol, which is much faster than IMAP or other methods.
- Free/Busy lookup and Global Address List functionality, which makes it easy to schedule meetings with your colleagues, regardless of whether they use Outlook's calendar or Google Calendar.
- A simple, two-click data migration tool which allows employees to easily copy existing data from Exchange or Outlook into Google Apps.
Watch it work in this 3 minute video:
This represents a major improvement and a compelling reason for companies to ditch their Exchange server. Heck it even makes the data migration into Google Apps super simple!
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