We are in transition to move on to Google Apps. I and also my coworkers have been using Gmail for quite some time now. We imported email our company mail accounts in our Gmail and things work smoothly.
I created standard account for Google Apps for Business to give it a try before migrating to Premier Edition. But there are couple of thing bothering me. They did such a good work with classic Gmail. Especially with contact management and GUI is also very comfortable to work with. But in Google Apps for Business Gmail frontend is like Gmail 2 years ago. Is there any good reason for this? Will this stay this way? Because its really unorthodox to have classic Gmail for free with all these features and when you pay you are transported back to the past. I haven't tried Premier Edition but I guess it has the same user interface. Do any of you have insight in this topic?
Let me do some question necromancy. Google Apps Gmail is no longer behind "regular" Gmail.
BTW It has been behind with many other services, e.g. we just recently got Google+. But Google is unifying their architecture and the gap is shrinking.
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I signed up for a free SendGrid account via the Azure portal. I want to use Marketing lists for emails however there is no option for "Marketing" in the side panel. Every tutorial I watch has this "Marketing" option available.
What I see
What I see on every youtube tutorial
Does anyone know how to get the marketing options?
Great question. SendGrid partners with Microsoft Azure and other companies to offer a more seamless onboarding and billing experience.
However, some products like the marketing suite are not yet available at this moment when consuming SendGrid services through our partners.
If you need the marketing suite, you can create an account directly through SendGrid instead of through Azure.
I understand this may be inconvenient, so I'm passing your query along as feedback for the SendGrid team.
I'm trying to send a notification out using Google Chats. But I have a few problems with the documentation I've been able to find:
It requires me to have a paid service account, which I do not have, and will not be getting
It requires using a chat bot, which (in my understanding) needs to be added to a room, and cannot just send out messages
Chat bots can't send out messages directly to personal accounts?
I'm already using Google OAuth2 authentication to access another Google API, so I'd like to use a Google API to send messages directly from the authenticated account. How would I do that?
So far:
All the documentation I can find is about making a chat bot.
I've considered some alternatives to sending out messages, but due to corporate device restrictions that will not be changing, google chats is my best option.
At the moment what you're trying to do is not possible, for multiple reasons.
You may know this already, but Google Chat is an upgrade to their old "Classic Hangouts" chat. In Google's own words, this is focused on enterprise (i.e. paid) accounts. While personal accounts are also able to upgrade and get some of the benefits, their documentation shows that Google Chat for personal accounts is very similar to the old Hangouts and most of the new features are meant for the paid accounts. This also includes the use of bots.
As you've observed, the Chat API currently only has methods to create and manage bots. There are no methods to send messages as your own account. This could be to prevent spam or because their Chat API is relatively new, since the Classic Hangouts did not have an API, and Chat hasn't fully replaced it yet. Even then, given that Chat is "enterprise-focused", it is uncertain whether or not personal accounts would get access to any new API features.
You could try to post feedback on their issue tracker or request the feature to see if you get a response, but for an immediate solution you may want to just use the Gmail API to send a regular email or reconsider the other alternatives that you had in mind.
Have been trying to contact Google Cast support on this, but no response there. Hoping there are someone able to answer or point me in the right direction here.
We have a couple of Chromecast apps developed for a client. These are registered on a Google account we currently own and which is also used for other apps and clients (let's not get into a hindsight discussion about the cleverness of this setup right now).
I am simply wondering if there is a way to transfer ownership of these apps to the client's Google account?
Yes, you can transfer the apps to a different account. Please reach out to us here: https://support.google.com/cast-developer/contact/google_cast_contact_us?visit_id=637100530319223284-3107522626&hl=en&rd=1
I'm just wondering if there is some service out there, where I can send an e-mail to with an image attached and that service posts this image to my Instagram account?
If you check out the API endpoints you can see that they are quite limited. Facebook made changes to Instagram's API last summer which did away with lots of features; having an endpoint for posting may have been one of them. Either way, it is no longer around, and seeing as Facebook does not want to encourage using their services outside of their own sites and apps, it is unlikely you'd be able to find the service you are looking for.
My (smaller) company has an existing Google Apps Deployment, used for E-Mail / Calendar, etc.
I'm looking into a SharePoint setup (2010 most likely). One of the best features is that new events are added to one's Outlook Calendar, e-mails can be sent automatically, etc. Naturally, this works best out-of-the-box with Exchange.
I know I can add my own OpenID login system via an OpenID provider for SharePoint and get my users into the system.
My question is, can anyone recommend the best way to go about making sure that events automatically find their way into users' calendars and e-mails on the Google Apps system?
This would enable us to deploy SharePoint without worrying about migrating our e-mail system to Exchange first (Google Apps is more cost-effective for our needs and I'm required to keep it.)
Thanks in advance for any help!
My experience has been that the Outlook integration is via the user's client not the exchange server. The exchange server isn't aware of SharePoint, at least in the scenario's I've been working with it.
I'm not familiar with Google Apps, but if your users are already in Outlook then you are probably OK. The SharePoint calendar in Outlook shows up as another calendar (not your normal Exchange related) calendar anyhow.
Email shouldn't be an issue since the SharePoint front end/web server sends the emails through whatever SMTP you tell it to.
Hope that helps.
Email won't be a problem - there's nothing exchange-specific about the alerts sent by SharePoint.
Calendars opened in outlook are not actually fully integrated with the outlook/exchange calendar. Outlook is simply able to open calendars from multiple locations for side by side display, so you may not get exactly what you are looking for even with exchange.
For google calendar integration you may find this post useful: http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/mashpoint/archive/2009/01/26/how-to-render-sharepoint-list-data-from-a-google-calendar.aspx
One part of this puzzle is how to setup SharePoint outgoing email.
If you already have a smtp server then no problem - but if not you can't get SharePoint to send directly to mail.gmail.com (or whatever your domain is) as SharePoint can't supply the authentication that google demands.
The solution is to use IIS SMTP server as a relay between SharePoint and Gmail.
http://fmuntean.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/how-to-configure-iis-smtp-server-to-forward-emails-using-a-gmail-account/
We have tried Shetab SharePoint Live Authentication solution that work with other OpenID provider such as Google and yahoo too, much more customizable and interesting solution, the best of it that prevent users to enter invalid e-mails so our SharePoint alert does not send spam mails to unwanted uses. Installation are all automated
http://www.shetabtech.com/english/SharePointLiveAuth