You can now allow others (i.e. administrative assistants) in your domain access to your email.

Editions included:
Premier Edition

Languages included:
US English

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 their manager's account from the account selection menu at the top of Gmail.

For more information:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=138350

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Now when you send an email using another address within your domain or within an aliased domain, your original username won't be listed in the "Sender" header, so your recipients won't see "on behalf of."

Editions included:
Premier and Education Editions

Languages included:
All languages supported by Gmail

How to access what's new:
To learn more about adding a custom 'From' address, click here

For more information:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/send-mail-from-another-address-without.html

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The following updates have been made to Google Apps Directory Sync:
– Google Apps Directory Sync can now help synchronize contact information for non-employees (as well as employees) that are listed in the central LDAP directory, so that employees can look up and contact important customers, partners and vendors.
– More contact fields can be synchronized between an LDAP system and Google Apps. Rich user profile information like multiple phone numbers, addresses and job titles are now supported.

Editions included:
Premier and Education Editions

Languages included:
US English

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

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/07/enhancements-to-google-apps-directory.html

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The following updates have been made to Google Calendar:
– Groups can now be added to calendar invitations in Google Calendar
– Tasks can now be printed

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

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Calendar

How to access what's new:
To invite a group to your event, enter the group name under 'Guests' in your Google Calendar invitation.

To print your task list, select 'Print task list' under 'Actions' from the Tasks window.


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Google Calendar now supports a special calendar that shows your contacts' birthdays and events.

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

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
To add the birthday and event calendar in Google Calendar, from the Settings page, select 'Browse public calendars' on the 'Calendars' tab, then click the 'Add Calendar' button for the 'Contacts' birthdays and events' calendar.


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The following updates have been made in Google Sites:
– Now when you paste embeddings that use object, embed, or iframe tags they will be auto-wrapped in a gadget rather than get stripped out as unsafe HTML.
– In manual mode sidebar navigation now allows for custom links, not just pages in the site.
– Improved handling of HTML pasted from external sources.

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

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Sites

How to access what's new:
To add a custom link to your navigation bar, click 'Add URL' from the 'Configure Navigation' dialog box.


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Google Apps now offers an OpenID API that allows end users to securely sign in to OpenID-enabled third party web sites using their Google Apps user account.

Editions included:
Premier and Education Editions

Languages included:
All supported languages

How to access what's new:
To learn more about Google OpenID Federated Login API, click here

For more information:
http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-apps-openid-identity-hub-for.html

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Email retention allows administrators to automatically delete email in a domain that is older than a selected period of time.

Editions included:
Premier Edition

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
Administrators can set email retention policies for their domain by entering them under 'Email retention' in 'Email Settings' in the administrator control panel.

For more information:
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151128

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Now when you report spam on a legitimate newsletter or mailing list, Gmail will help you unsubscribe. By clicking 'Unsubscribe' Gmail will automatically send a request back to the sender so they'll stop emailing you.


Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education and Partner Editions

Languages included:
All languages supported by Gmail

How to access what's new:
To unsubscribe from a newsletter or mailing list, click 'Report spam' and select 'Unsubscribe' to send a request back to the sender.
Note: This only works for some senders right now. We're actively encouraging senders to support auto-unsubscribe.

For more information:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/unsubscribing-made-easy.html

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The following updates have been made to Google Docs presentations:
– The ability to add and edit tables
– Automatic play mode for embedded presentations

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

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
To add and edit tables, select 'Table' from the Google Docs presentations menu bar.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009/07/making-presentations-better-with-tables.html


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