The following new features are available in Google Sites:
– The site navigation widget can now be organized into a hierarchical tree structure.
– The navigation widget can also be set up to highlight the current page and subgroup pages into categories.
– The editing toolbar has been updated to more closely resemble Google Docs.
– The site settings area now uses vertical navigation.
– The rendering infrastructure has been modified to improve performance. Related Colors and Fonts settings have been grouped. A "From theme" option to each variable to make it easier to revert to a previous theme.
– Sidebar gadgets and page canvas gadgets can now be independently styled via colors and fonts.
– Users can now configure a "site language" which allows for a uniform language experience for site viewers.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Sites

How to access what's new:
To access the new navigation widget, click the 'Edit sidebar' link below the sidebar (or choose 'Manage site' from the 'More actions' menu). You can then edit the navigation widget.

To configure the site language, click 'More actions', select 'Manage site' and choose 'Other Stuff' to select a language from the 'Site display language' dropdown.

For more information:
http://googleappsposts.blogspot.com/2009/05/hierarchical-navigation-and-other-new.html

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Tasks are now available in Google Calendar

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
To begin using Tasks in Google Calendar, click the 'Tasks' link on the left-hand side. The task creation and management panel will appear on the right side of your screen.

For more information:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/tasks-now-in-calendar-too.html

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When you have Google Calendar notifications enabled, your guests' comments are now included along with their response in the email reply to your Google Calendar invitation.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Calendar

How to access what's new:
To receive your guests' comments in their email reply, you must have 'Invitation replies' notifications enabled. Under 'Settings', click the 'Calendar' tab, select 'Notifications' and click the 'Email' checkbox to enable 'Invitation replies'.

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With Google Apps Directory Sync, you can automatically provision users and groups in Google Apps based on the user data in your LDAP system, such as Microsoft Active Directory or Lotus Domino to match your existing organizational schema.

Editions included:
Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
To download and learn how to install Google Apps Directory Sync, click here .

Learn how to upgrade to Google Apps Premier Edition to use this feature.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/04/sync-google-apps-user-accounts-with.html


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Tip: The Google I/O Developer Conference is happening on May 27 & 28 in San Francisco. Learn more.

You can now apply a theme to forms you create in Google Docs.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
To apply a theme to a form, click the 'Theme' button at the top of your form, select a theme and click 'Apply'. Note: The theme will be visible to your respondents when they respond in a form window, but not if they reply from an email message with an embedded form.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009/04/spruce-up-your-surveys-70-colorful.html

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You can now control who can edit individual sheets in a Google Docs spreadsheet.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
To protect a specific sheet, select the sheet and click the down arrow next to the sheet's name, and select the 'Protect sheet' option. Next, select who is allowed to edit the sheet from the 'Protect sheet' preferences box.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009/04/sheet-protection-gives-you-finer.html

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You can now view .ppt and .tiff files online, directly in your browser. A Flash plugin is no longer required. The viewer can also zoom in and out, select text to copy and paste, and 'print' the presentation to a PDF document.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages included:
All languages supported by Gmail

How to access what's new:
When you click 'View' for a .tiff or .ppt attachment in Gmail, it will open directly in your browser for easy viewing.

For more information:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/powerpoint-and-tiff-file-viewing.html

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Now when you when you upload a PowerPoint presentation into Google Docs, the speaker notes will be uploaded as well.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
To upload a PowerPoint presentation including speaker notes into Google Docs, select 'File' and 'Upload a presentation' from the Google Docs menu bar. Choose the PowerPoint file you wish to upload and click 'Upload File'. The speaker notes from the PowerPoint presentation will appear under 'Speaker notes' in your Google Doc.

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It is now possible to view your agenda against the Chinese calendar (either in Traditional or Simplified Chinese).

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Calendar

How to access what's new:
Sign in to Google Calendar click 'Settings' and select 'Chinese calendar - Traditional Chinese' or 'Chinese calendar - Simplified Chinese' from the 'Alternate calendar' menu.

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To make the transition to Google Sites as easy as possible for Page Creator users, we will be doing an automatic transition of Page Creator pages to Google Sites, which will include moving pages to Google Sites and redirecting visits to content in Page Creator to the new location on Google Sites.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team and Partner Editions

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Sites

How to access what's new:
The transition of Page Creator pages to Google Sites will happen automatically. From now until this transition begins on June 1, 2009, Page Creator users who don't want to be moved to Google Sites have the option to download their content, host it on another service, and redirect their existing Page Creator URLs. These options are available via the 'Learn more' link at the top of your Site Manager in Page Creator.

For more information:
http://googleappsposts.blogspot.com/2009/04/now-moving-to-google-sites.html

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