Google Apps administrators now have the ability to define retention rules for specific organizational units. This new feature will give administrators more granular control over retention rules, which control how long certain email messages are preserved before they are deleted permanently.

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For more information
http://support.google.com/vault/bin/answer.py?answer=2535539

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Earlier this week we launched a new look for Google Apps Vault.  No product functionality has been changed. For more information about carrying out tasks in the new interface please read the Help Center documentation at http://support.google.com/vault

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The Docs audit log allows administrators to see when users viewed or edited a document. These logs are available in the control panel under the Reports tab. Logging is disabled by default. It must be enabled in the Drive and Docs settings.

Note that changes made by APIs or views/edits to publicly accessible documents (which do not require authentication) are not logged.

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For more information
https://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2773649

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No new features launched this week.

The following features are intended for release to these domains on January 15th:
No new features to announce

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Scheduled

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Google Apps administrators now have the ability to enforce SSL connections on the Contacts APIs through a setting in the control panel. This setting provides added security against session hijacking and user impersonation. It affects these APIs:

- Contacts API
- Domain Shared Contacts API
- Google Apps Profiles API

Note that this setting will be OFF by default because some widely used legacy contacts applications do not support SSL. Early next year, we will set the Enforce SSL option to ON for all new domains and all existing domains where we do not detect a contacts API request from one of these legacy applications within the previous week.

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For more information:
https://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2892234

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Starting today, Google Apps for Business users can download QuickOffice for the iPad for free from the App Store. This exclusive version of QuickOffice automatically syncs with Google Drive and supports two factor authentication.

With the app, users can open and edit any Microsoft Word, Excel or Powerpoint file stored in Google Drive right from their iPad. iPhone and Android versions of this app for Google Apps for Business customers will be available in the future.

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For more information:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quickoffice-exclusively-for/id578386521
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/12/quickoffice-google-apps-better-document.html

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No new features launched this week.

The following features are intended for release to these domains on December 25th:
No new features to announce

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Scheduled

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Gmail: Users using the new compose experience in Gmail now have the ability to insert files up to 10GB from Drive directly into an email . Gmail will automatically check that recipients have access to any files being sent.

The following features are intended for release to these domains on December 18th:
No new features to announce

Release track:
Scheduled

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For more information:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/gmail-and-drive-new-way-to-send-files.html
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/introducing-new-compose-in-gmail.html

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Google Apps administrators now have the ability to programmatically migrate emails into Google Groups using the new Groups Migration API. This API allows developers the ability to build tools that can move shared emails from any data source (typically shared mailboxes, public folders and discussion databases) to their domain’s Google Groups discussion archives.

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For more information:
http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2012/11/migrating-to-google-apps-just-got-easier.html
https://developers.google.com/google-apps/groups-migration/index

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Version 3.0 of Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange (GAMME) is now available for download. It has the following improvements:

- Calendar migration for resources
Migrate calendar resources like meeting rooms from Exchange to Google Apps.

- Public folder migration
Migrate public folders in Exchange to Google Groups using the command line.

- New in-product help
Click on a question mark in the product to get helpful tips on using the tool

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For more information:
https://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=162794
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/exchangemigration
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2840803
http://www.google.com/support/enterprise/static/gapps/docs/admin/en/gapps_exchange_migration/gamme_admin.pdf#page=49

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