Keyboard shortcuts to common actions like create page and edit page for site collaborators have now been added to Google Sites.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

How to access what's new:
- In Google Sites, type Ctrl / (⌘ / on a Mac) to open the shortcut help.
- Full list of keyboard shortcuts.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/09/keyboard-shortcuts-in-google-sites.html

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Gmail now offers users the ability to switch between conversation view and the traditional message-based unthreaded view. When a user switches to unthreaded view, messages are no longer grouped together into a conversation, and each message is shown as a separate entry in the inbox. The inbox is still sorted in reverse chronological order.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Gmail

How to access what's new:
This feature is only available to domains whose administrator has enabled the ‘enable pre-release features’ checkbox in the Control Panel.

In Gmail ‘Settings’, go to the new ‘Conversation View’ section, select to have that view on or off and click ‘Save changes’.

Note: The mobile web-based view of Gmail will still be threaded, as will the Gmail Mobile Client app. However, if you are using a Blackberry, Windows Mobile, iPhone, or Android device, you can access Gmail unthreaded in the native mail clients of those devices using Google’s sync tools.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/09/threaded-email-or-not-now-its-your.html

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A new revision history interface is now available in Google documents that makes it even easier to see document revisions when collaborating.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
- To see the new interface, go to ‘File’, then ‘See revision history’ when editing a document.
- Click on a time stamp in the right column to see what changes were made at a given time or use the arrow keys to quickly scan through many revisions.
- Changes are color-coded based on each collaborator, making it easy to tell what has been added or deleted.
- Time stamps are also improved in the new interface.
- The interface also batches revisions into groups of changes to make it easier to understand how a document has changed over time. To see a finer-grained list of revisions, click ‘Show more detailed revisions'.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-tools-for-viewing-document.html

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Up to now, Google Apps administrators had to sign requests for calls to Google Apps APIs using their username and password (this is called ClientLogin Authorization).

From today, Google Apps now supports OAuth authorization on Google Apps APIs.

There are several advantages to using OAuth instead of the username/password model:
- OAuth is more secure: OAuth tokens can be scoped and set to expire by a certain date, making them more secure than using the ClientLogin mechanism.
- OAuth is customizable: Using OAuth, administrators can create tokens that scripts may only use to access data of a particular scope when calling Google Apps APIs. For instance, a token set to call the Email Migration API would not be able to use login credentials to access the Google Apps Provisioning API.
- OAuth is an open standard: OAuth is an open source standard, making it a familiar choice for developers to work with.

The Google Apps APIs that support the OAuth signing mechanism are:
1. Provisioning API
2. Email Migration API
3. Admin Settings API
4. Calendar Resource API
5. Email Settings API
6. Audit API

Editions included:
Premier, Education Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
Google Apps APIs

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-oauth-support-for-google-apps-apis.html

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New import options have been added to spreadsheets. When importing, you now can create a whole new spreadsheet, append to the current sheet, add a new sheet to your existing spreadsheet or even replace your entire spreadsheet with this new version.

There's also a new custom delimiters option where you can also specify what character to parse your data file with, giving you maximum flexibility when dealing with your data files.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Spreadsheets

How to access what's new:
- When editing a spreadsheet, click on ‘File’ then ‘Import’ to select your file and see the new import options.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/09/import-your-files-many-different-ways.html

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A new version of the Gmail app is now available in the Android Market. This means the app is no longer tied to Android version releases anymore. New features include:

- Important message actions will now stick to the top of the screen, one click away, no matter how long the email is.
- View previous message content more easily, just like in the desktop version of Gmail. Tap “Show quoted text” to reveal the previous message.
- Limited support for Priority Inbox. If you’ve enabled Priority Inbox via the desktop version of Gmail, you’ll see an “Important” label that shows all messages flagged as important. You can even add a shortcut to “Important” to your home screen.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

How to access what's new:
- The Gmail update requires Froyo (Android version 2.2), so it’s available if you have a Nexus One, HTC EVO, Motorola Droid 2 or Motorola Droid. (Not sure if your device is running Android version 2.2? Check here.)
- Get the update from Android Market.

For more information:
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/09/updated-gmail-app-in-android-market.html

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Using the Google Font API, 6 new web fonts have been added to Google Docs:
- Droid Serif and Droid Sans
- Calibri and Cambria
- Consolas and Corsiva

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by web fonts

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-fontastic-google-docs.html

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Two-step verification is now available for Google Apps. When enabled by an administrator, it requires two means of identification to sign in to a Google Apps account. A mobile phone is the main requirement to use the second form of identification. It doesn’t require any special tokens or devices. After entering a password, a verification code is sent to the user’s mobile phone via SMS, voice calls, or generated on an application they can install on their Android, BlackBerry or iPhone device. This makes it much more likely that it is the user accessing the data: even if someone has stolen the password, they'll need more than that to access the account. Users can also indicate when they're using a computer they trust and don't want to be asked for a verification code from that machine in the future.

Editions included:
Premier, Education Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
US English Only (Next Generation Control Panel)

How to access what's new:
- Google Apps Administrators can enable this option in the control panel in the 'Advanced Tools' section by checking the box 'Allow users to turn on two-factor authentication'. Users still have to opt-in to use this feature and it is not possible to make this mandatory for all users. To see this new option, your control panel must be using the ‘Next Generation’ version.
- Once your users manually enroll in two-step verification, they may need to use access codes in addition to their verification codes. For installed applications that don’t have a two-step verification field, your users will need to enter an access code once per device or application in place of their regular password to access their Google Account. Common devices and applications that require access codes are: Gmail and Google Calendar on Android-based phones, ActiveSync for Windows Mobile and iPhone, and IMAP clients such as Thunderbird.
- At any time, administrators can un-enroll users from two factor verification in the control panel, either through the checkbox to allow it or in the user’s individual settings.
- Two-step verification can’t be used for accounts using a SAML single sign-on service (SSO).

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-secure-cloud-for-millions-of.html
Help Center overview: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=175197

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The following new features have been released in spreadsheets:

- More options to choose from when printing spreadsheets:
Selection printing: Print only a highlighted section from your spreadsheet.
Gridless printing: Print your spreadsheet without lines.
- Find and replace now searches calculated values in the spreadsheet.
- Removable hyperlinks.
- Tab/Enter behavior to allow users to tab across cells and hit enter to go back to the beginning of the line.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
When editing a spreadsheet, select ‘File’ then ‘Print’ to see the new printing options.

Note: Your administrator must have enabled the ‘pre-release features’ checkbox in the Google Apps control panel to see these features in the newer spreadsheets editor.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/09/print-your-spreadsheets-and-save-ink.html

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Release 1.6.19 of the Google Apps Directory Sync tool is now available for download. It now includes support for alias exclusion. If you have Google Apps users who should not be deleted, moved or modified during synchronization, you can specify those users as match rules on alias email address. Match rules include exact match, regular expressions based match and substring match. To start using it, set up user alias rules in the Google Apps Directory Sync Configuration Manager, in the section for Google Apps Exclusion Rules.

Editions included:
Premier and Education Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
US English only

For more information:
Overview: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=106368
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