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Talk to me about this. My wife needs to get email in the office, currently using Outlook/POP but needs people to access remotely, phone support etc. Normally I would do Exchange, which I am looking at the Microsoft solution. But can the Google Apps Free sync with phones - Contacts, Calendar?
 
I use Google Apps Free for my company's domain and we have excellent synching for email, contacts, and calendar all in one. The setup couldn't be simpler and there are no issues with downtime.

Very happy with it - never even thinking of going back to Exchange for the amount of headaches I don't have to deal with anymore.
 
I've been using google apps (free) with my personal domain for years, it's been great. Looking into migrating my company over to it as well (paid version). Currently using exchange at work (07)
 
So full sync, contacts, calender email to phones, I thought I read only the paid for does it. Do you need extra apps on the phones or?
 
It may depend on the phone as to whether you need an additional app to synch with GoogleApps or not. I use GoogleApps free for my personal domain and it works seemlessly on my DroidX. I have two different Google Accounts on it and the email, calendar and contacts synchs with both accounts just fine.
 
The free edition doesn't do as seamless integration with outlook as the paid edition. You can get calendar and contacts to sync with outlook but with additional apps. With regards to phones, it really does depend on the phone that you have.
 
phones would be droid, and maybe blackberry just for email.

i looked at the free seems like you can sync.

gonna see what hte wife wants, I prefer hosted exchange, so will see.
 
I'd be weary of using anything hosted like this just because you don't know how long it will be around, or if they may start charging etc. Now if there's a way you could setup their software on your own server, then that could work, but I don't know much about google apps so don't know if that's possible.
 
I've only synched with android platform phones on the free GoogleApps. No idea if it works with anything else. The phone just treats it as another google account.
 
The free edition most DEFINITELY does support all the mobile phone types. I personally use a blackberry with my google apps domain (free edition) and have no issues synching up everything I want. It just works seamlessly - not something I can say for exchange I used to be synced to a few years back. Problems upon problems.

I know of iphone and android users who have no issues as well with similar free Google Apps setups.

They of course will push the paid product as they make money off it it. But why pay when you can get away with it for free.
 
Agreed I use google apps for my photography work and have my e-mail and calendar sync'd to my SE X10a. I haven't noticed any downtime since I started it up about 6 months ago but in terms of usage it's quite light for me. If you need something mission critical then spend the cash otherwise a solution like Google Apps is great when you don't want to sink a ton of money into infrastructure or deal with potential headaches other than downtime.
 
we use the corp version (over 1000 mail boxes) and we have had quite a few issues recently with delayed mail etc.
 
Berg0 said:
I've been using google apps (free) with my personal domain for years, it's been great. Looking into migrating my company over to it as well (paid version). Currently using exchange at work (07)
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Same been using the free version since forever ago! Love it!
 
how long did it take to do the Updating MX? I swapped records mxtoolbox already reporting the new.:

10 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com 74.125.159.27 60 min SMTP Test Blacklist Check
20 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com 74.125.45.27 60 min SMTP Test Blacklist Check
20 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com 74.125.77.27 60 min SMTP Test Blacklist Check
30 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.com 74.125.43.27 60 min SMTP Test Blacklist Check
30 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.com 72.14.213.27 60 min SMTP Test Blacklist Check

still bouncing messages
 
Mx must no be fully propogated, sending from gmail to the google apps is giving me a bounce with no mailbox, sending from work exchange is going
 
we are having Temp look failures to google at the moment as well. PITA
 
Used Google Apps (both free and paid) a few times and I can't recommend them.
Its full of Google own way of doing things that sadly cause more problems than its worth.
Blackberrys were a pain to get working cause they couldn't bypass the Catch-pa,
Outlook was temperamental
Sub folders didn't sync on any platform
Email migration tools are slow
and support is non contactable.

Also for a business theres is NO backups!
so if someone deletes an email by mistake its gone
if you remove a user then it takes days for the user to fully delete. If done in error their is no way to recover.

Overall I found the whole thing a bigger pain even on the paid option. Hosted Microsoft services are they i go now. It works with everything, its faster, Iphones Blackberrys and outlook connect fine. and its a better user experience IMO
 
Jay oasis all is good now

Digital vortex I agree with the no backups, haven't tested mobile phones yet, but blackberry looks like you need to use the blackberry apps. I prefer outlook and exchange but her office is light email, so should be fine.
For free its a nice step, I think for 50 year per user for pro hosted exchange is a better option
 
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