When small businesses use Google Apps, it's easy for administrators to help employees configure user settings account-by-account. But this approach doesn't scale up very well for larger companies. Now that we have a growing list of customers with hundreds and even thousands of employees apiece, offering a streamlined way for admins to configure account settings is essential. Today, with the release of the Google Email Settings API,

Thanks to you,  Google Apps  has grown in numbers of users and diversity of products.  We're encouraged by the stories you've sent us on how you're using Google Apps to change the way you do business, save money for your company and improve service to your internal customers.  We're often asked to share ideas on how customers can use Google Apps to do things that they couldn't do before and so, we're kicking off a webinar series focused on Google Explorers such as yourself.

People have been discussing the promise of corporate video for years. But to date it hasn't met expectations. Doing it well meant investing tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in specialized video hardware and software that are difficult to set up, maintain and use. It was out of reach to all but the largest companies, and even for them, justifying the ROI of an enterprise video deployment was a challenge. Thanks to cloud computing these barriers are now surmountable.

Posted by Amanda Kleha, Google Apps Security & Compliance Team In July, our Postini datacenters saw the biggest volume of email virus attacks so far in 2008, with a peak of nearly 10 million messages on July 24. One of the more prominent attacks in the month involved a spoofed UPS package-tracking link that was intended to lure recipients into clicking on it and downloading malware. Our zero-hour virus protection technology first started catching these emails on July 20.

This week our Google Apps for Education team is attending the Campus Technology Conference in Boston. This 4-day gathering focuses on emerging technologies in higher education, both in the classroom and campus-wide. As anyone in the education field can attest, the business of teaching - and learning - is changing very quickly. We're continually impressed and excited by all of the innovation happening in this space. In response to a new educational ecosystem,

Posted by Dan Israel, Google Enterprise - Government Products We just published a case study on the Business Gateway program , a US government initiative that provides a one-stop source of information to help small businesses navigate the government. This project is noteworthy for a number of reasons. First, the collaboration. Not only does the Business Gateway program involve 21 different federal agencies,

Posted by Vijay Koduri, Product Marketing Manager Imagine bringing the experience of search on Google.com and the power of cloud computing to your website. That's Google Site Search in a nutshell.

Posted by Tim Johnson, Product Marketing Manager Google Web Security for Enterprise protects organizations of all sizes against web malware attacks in real time and enables the safe, productive use of the web, without incurring hardware, upfront capital, or IT management costs. The product enables organizations to control how employees use the Internet, and provides easy-to-use tools to create, enforce, and monitor the right web policy for your organization. Now,

Posted by Salim Parak, Google Enterprise Training Living on the west coast of the US, I know it is hard )especially in winter( for some of our customers to make their way out to the east coast for training. I often make the 4 hour trip out east to visit my family. So we are really excited to announce our newest Certified Training Partner for Search, Innovent Solutions . Innovent will be teaching Google Search Appliance courses on a regular basis,

Posted by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing Manager Keeping up with the steady stream of updates and innovations can be a challenge for Google Apps administrators. Starting today there's a new source of information you can count on for details about every update. This info is available as an RSS feed . To subscribe to new updates and see a digest of past improvements,

Posted by Rishi Chandra, Google Apps Product Manager Today, information is created in all types of formats, such as documents, presentations, and even videos, and one thing we hear a lot from our customers is how hard it is for a company to organize all that information in one place. We know that making information easily accessible is an essential part of knowledge-sharing, so we're excited to introduce a new addition to our Google Apps product suite: Google Sites .

Posted by Scott McMullan, Google Enterprise Partner Team One of the steps every organization takes when adopting Google Apps is user provisioning. Quite simply, before users can log in, they need an account to log in to! There are a number of methods a Google Apps administrator can use to add users, including one at a time and CSV file upload via the control panel, programmatically using the Google Apps Provisioning API ,

Posted by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing Manager Doing email, checking your calendar and accessing documents from mobile devices have become essential as more people around the world go online primarily from their phones, and as we all develop higher expectations for being productive from anywhere. I thought it would be helpful to give a quick recap of how employees and students can use Google Apps when they're not at a computer, organized by type of device. Here we go.

Posted by Jeremy Milo, Google Apps Marketing Manager It's exciting to see just how quickly technology is accelerating, but the pace of innovation poses a challenge for decision-makers in schools and businesses. It's tough for them to keep up with escalating expectations about how technology should empower everyone to do more.

Posted by Sundar Raghavan, Product Marketing Manager Managing email systems has never been easy, and for many businesses it only seems to be getting harder: Not only do you have to worry about increasingly complex email security threats, upgrades and patches, but archiving and e-discovery needs to meet regulatory requirements are also on the rise. We believe cloud computing can dramatically simplify this problem for our customers and reduce costs,

Posted by Nitin Mangtani, Lead Product Manager, Enterprise Search A flurry of media and market interest in enterprise search makes us glad we're instead focused on the user experience in search. On Monday, January 21, 2008, Microsoft offered to buy FAST Search & Transfer, for $1.2 billion. Coupled with recent multimillion-dollar investments by Intel and SAP in the enterprise search vendor Endeca,

At Google we know the importance of having a good enterprise search solution that helps people inside organizations find the information they're looking for. And of course, it's part of our mission to make sure every organization benefits from the best enterprise search experience. Last week's developments in the enterprise search market are sure to bring confusion and uncertainty to many customers.

Posted by Cyrus Mistry, Enterprise Product Manager John, a Helpdesk Agent, is searching his Intranet for product troubleshooting information using his powerful Google Search Appliance to help a customer, but he'd love to simultaneously search all the public forums that exist about his product and see those results side by side. Jane, a Public Relations Manager, is searching her Intranet for recent news about her product launch using her Google Mini,

Posted by Vijay Koduri, Product Marketing Manager On January 2nd, Intelligent Enterprise unveiled its take on the most influential vendors that will drive the intelligent enterprise. I'm glad to report that Google was on their list of top companies that will matter the most in 2008, thereby winning an Intelligent Enterprise 2008 Editors' Choice Award. Their rationale was based on the impact being felt by Google's products in the enterprise, both today and in the near future.

Posted by Cyrus Mistry, Enterprise Product Manager So you have your shiny blue or yellow box up and running and life is good. As the searches keep coming, you begin to wonder.... How many of my users are clicking on the first search result? How many refine their search? How many use the Advanced search capabilities? How many click on a KeyMatch? How many have to click the Next page link? How many aren't finding what they want?