Chrome delivers the fastest Google Apps experience and protects users against phishing and malware on the web. This browser is now available for download with support for the following administrator functionality:

MSI Installer: A standalone installer that allows admins to install the Chrome browser at a system-level across the organization.

Group Policies: These allow admins to configure common behaviours across the organization such as default search provider, default homepage and many more.

Policy Templates: ADM and ADMX templates are included in order to help admins easily configure these policies that manage security and privacy including the ability to disable auto-updates.

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education*

How to access what's new:
Download Google Chrome for Business

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/12/chrome-is-ready-for-business.html

*Support is available to Google Apps for Business, Government and Education customers for Chrome browser administrator issues only.

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The newer revision history interface in Google Documents is now also available in Spreadsheets. You can now see all of the changes that collaborators have made cell-by-cell.

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
- To see the new interface, go to ‘File’, then ‘See revision history’ when editing a spreadsheet.
- Click on a time stamp in the right column to see what changes were made at a given time or use the arrow keys to quickly scan through many revisions.
- Changes are color-coded based on each collaborator, making it easy to tell what has been added or deleted.
- Time stamps are also improved in the new interface.
- The interface also batches revisions into groups of changes to make it easier to understand how a spreadsheet has changed over time. To see a finer-grained list of revisions, click ‘Show more detailed revisions'.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/12/this-week-in-docs-revision-history-in.html

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The following Google Apps migration tools have been updated to make moving to Google Apps even easier:

Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange:
Using the latest version of this tool, admins can now migrate data from PST files and emails from these IMAP servers: Novell® GroupWise®, Cyrus, Dovecot, Courier and Gmail.

Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Outlook®:
- 64 bit support
- Command line support for OAuth authentication
- Optional Gmail label prefixes in the command line

Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

How to access what's new:
Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange
Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Outlook®

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=9202

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Email delegation is now available to all Google Apps customers. This Gmail feature was previously only available to Google Apps for Business.

Editions included:
Google Apps and Google Apps for Education

Languages included:
All languages supported by Gmail

How to access what's new:
Administrators must first enable mail delegation by checking the 'Mail Delegation' checkbox under 'Email Settings' in the administrator control panel.

To enter a delegate, users can select the 'Accounts' tab under 'Settings' in Gmail and click 'Add another account' to enter their delegate's email address.

Once the delegate is signed into their own own Gmail account, they can then access the other person's account from the account selection menu at the top of Gmail.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/12/email-delegation-now-for-all-customers.html
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=138350

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The following new features are now available to all Google Apps domains:

Gmail for Android:
Priority Inbox - You can now see important messages in a new Priority Inbox view, see the importance markers and change the importance of conversations, just like in the desktop version. Additionally, you can now set up your phone to notify, vibrate, or ring on just your new important mail.

Improved Compose - You can now easily switch between reply, reply all and forward while composing your response. As well as that, if you’ve configured the ‘custom from’ feature in the desktop version of Gmail, you can now also send email from that address. Finally, you can also now respond to messages in-line.

Gmail webapp: Previously only available in U.S. English, the HTML5 webapp version of Gmail is now available to 44 languages.

The new languages are: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK and American), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian (Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese (for both Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu and Vietnamese.

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

How to access what's new:
Priority Inbox: In ‘Settings’, select Priority Inbox as the default inbox view and configure your notifications to be just for your important mail. This version of the Gmail app works for Android 2.2 (Froyo) and newer releases in most countries. (Not sure if your device is running the right version? Check here.)

Gmail mobile webapp: If your phone’s default language is one of those listed, go to gmail.com in your phone’s browser and the new interface will appear in your language automatically. This new version works for iPhones running iOS 2.2.1 and above, and all versions of Android.

For more information:
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/12/gmail-for-android-better-priority-inbox.html
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/12/and-bonjour-to-better-mobile-web-gmail.html


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Connectors in drawings: All new lines can connect to shapes making it easier to create flowcharts and complex diagrams.

Insert images directly from Picasa: If you’ve got images stored in your Picasa web albums, the image dialog will let you insert those images directly into documents and drawings.

Hidden controls: Choosing View -> Hide controls will hide the title bar, menu bar, and toolbar. Once you’ve hidden the controls, you can always press Esc to make them appear again.

WMF upload: We now support uploading WMF (Windows Metafile) files and converting them into Google drawings.

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-this-week-in-docs-connectors-hidden.html

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For Domains whose admins have enabled the ‘enable pre-release features’ checkbox in the Control Panel:

Event timezones - You can now specify the time zone for a given event. You can also set up events which start in one time zone and end in another.

For Domains with ‘enable pre-release features’ checkbox disabled:

Optional attendees: When adding invitees to an event, you now have the ability to communicate the importance of a meeting for each attendee.

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Calendar

How to access what's new:
Event timezones: Click the “Time zone” link to the right of the date and time fields on the event page to enter the timezone. Events will appear on your calendar according to the current time zone you’re in, and when you change to your destination time zone they’ll be in the right place.

For more information:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/event-time-zones-in-google-calendar.html

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