The Provisioning API for user and group management has been updated to allow Premier, Education and Partner Edition admins to take advantage of the new functionality of Google Apps groups, including per group sending permissions and groups that contain other groups.

Editions included:
Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
Learn more about the Provisioning API on the Google Code site (link below).

For more information:
http://code.google.com/apis/apps/gdata_provisioning_api_v2.0_developers_protocol.html

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Premier Edition administrators can now specify up to 100 authorized Google Video uploaders if they don't want every employee to have uploading capabilities.

Editions included:
Premier Edition

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
From the administrative control panel, choose 'Video' from the 'Service settings' menu. Next, enter up to 100 authorized users in the 'Video Uploaders' box and click 'Save changes'.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/collaboration.html#video

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Administrators can now set minimum and maximum password length requirements for their users, and view visual indicators of the strength of their users' passwords.

Editions included:
Premier and Education Editions

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
Administrators can access these features from the administrative control panel under 'Advanced Tools' > 'Advanced Password Settings'.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-layer-of-data-access-security-for.html

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Technology solution providers worldwide can now to sell, customize and support Google Apps Premier Edition for customers of all sizes.

Editions included:
Premier Edition

How to access what's new:
Visit the reseller program website to learn more about the opportunity and how to become a reseller.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/resellers/index.html

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Premier Edition administrators can now add contacts that aren't employees of their own company to the contact list that each user can access in the new standalone contact manager. These shared contacts are managed with the Shared Contacts API.

Editions included:
Premier Edition

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
Administrators can learn more about how to manage shared contacts that aren't employees of their own company through the Shared Contacts API documentation. (See link below.)

For more information:
http://code.google.com/apis/apps/shared_contacts/gdata_shared_contacts_api_reference.html

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Google Apps administrators can now link their Google Analytics accounts to Google Apps, providing administrators with usage data for Google Docs and Google Sites.

Editions impacted:
Premier and Education Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to the administrative control panel, go to the 'Advanced Tools' tab, click 'Setup Google Analytics' and enter the profile ID number from your Google Analytics account to begin collecting usage data. Sign in to Google Analytics to view and analyze the data.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-analytics-for-google-apps.html

Premier and Education Edition administrators can now use OAuth authentication to access GData feeds for users on their domains. Using OAuth, administrators can act on behalf of end-users without any end-user involvement.

Editions impacted:
Premier and Education Editions

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Premier and Education Edition admins can enable OAuth in the 'Authentication' section of the 'Advanced tools' tab of the Google Apps administrative control panel.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=61017

Google Apps Premier Edition now includes a 99.9% uptime guarantee for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites and Google Talk.

Editions impacted:
Premier Edition

Languages impacted:
All

How to access what's new:
This uptime guarantee is available to all Premier Edition customers.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/sla.html

Companies using Premier Edition can now share videos privately and securely among employees with Google Video at no additional cost. Videos can be uploaded, shared with specific permissions, and watched by authorized viewers with no special hardware or software. Each Premier Edition domain gets 3GB of video storage per user account.

Editions impacted:
Premier Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Google Video will be enabled by default for all new Premier Edition customers.

Existing Premier Edition customers who have opted in to 'Automatically add new Google services' from the administrative control panel will have access to Google Video shortly.

Existing Premier Edition customers who have not opted in to automatically get new services can manually enable Google Video from the control panel. Sign in to the control panel, click 'Add more services' and then 'Add it now'.

Administrators using a non-English version of the control panel must temporarily switch to the 'Next Generation' English version of the control panel to manually enable Google Video. Google Video will remain enabled after switching back to the non-English version of the control panel.

Once enabled, the Google Video service is available for Premier Edition users at http://video.google.com/a/example.com, but remember to replace "example.com" with your actual domain name.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/apps/collaboration

Premier Edition administrators can now ensure that users access Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites with HTTPS, so data is encrypted as it travels between user web browser and our servers.

Editions impacted:
Premier Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to the control panel, choose 'Domain settings', check the box for 'Enable SSL' and save your changes.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=100181

Administrators can now set email policy rules using regular expressions, which allows for inbound and outbound filtering on content like social security numbers, phone numbers and other structured information.

Editions impacted:
Premier Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign in to the Premier Edition administrative control panel and launch the Postini management interface to configure email policy management rules.

For more information:
http://groups.google.com/group/PostiniSupportForGoogleApps

Each Premier Edition user account now includes 25 GB of mail storage in Gmail.

Editions impacted:
Premier Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign up for or upgrade to Premier Edition, and sign in to Gmail. The email storage quota is noted below the inbox.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/gmail.html

Custom message policy management and 90-day message recovery for accidentally deleted messages are now included in Premier Edition at no additional charge.

Editions impacted:
Premier Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
In the Premier Edition administrative control panel, click 'Add services' and select 'Policy Management and Message Recovery'.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en-ie&answer=77041

Premier Edition now supports US English, UK English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Czech, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian and Brazilian Portuguese.

Editions impacted:
Premier Edition

Languages impacted:
UK English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Czech, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian and Brazilian Portuguese.

How to access what's new:
Visit the Google Apps homepage, select a language from the language menu in the upper right of the page, and click 'Compare Editions and Sign Up' to register for Premier Edition.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/business/applications.html

Now you can pilot Premier Edition free for 30 days, to experience the benefits of enhanced administrative controls, more storage for each user's inbox, phone support for critical administrative issues and more.

Editions impacted:
Premier Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Visit the Google Apps homepage, and sign up for a free trial of Premier Edition

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editions_spe.html

The new Premier Edition of Google Apps offers more administrative controls, more storage for each user's inbox, phone support for critical administrative issues and more. Premier Edition is available to businesses of all sizes for $50 per user per year.

Editions impacted:
Premier Edition

Languages impacted:
US English

How to access what's new:
Sign up for Premier Edition from the Google Apps homepage, or upgrade from an existing Standard Edition domain from the administrative control panel.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editions_spe.html