User policy management and control over services are now available to Google Apps domains in more languages and editions

User policy management and control over services are now available to Google Apps domains in more languages and editions

More Google Apps administrators can now segment their users into different organizations and control which Google services are enabled/disab... 14.55

More Google Apps administrators can now segment their users into different organizations and control which Google services are enabled/disabled for each of those different sets of users.

- Allows creation of organizations in a tree-like hierarchy
- Manage membership of users into one organization
- Specify policies for which services are on/off by organization

Editions included:
Standard, Premier and Partner Edition

Languages included:
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, Finnish, Filipino/Tagalog, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

How to access what's new:
The Control Panel tab ‘Users and groups’ now becomes ‘Organization & users’. Click on this new tab to create a new organization.

To create organizational units:
1. In the organizational tree, highlight the organizational unit to which you want to add a child.
2. Click the ‘Add suborganization’ button..
3. Enter a name and description for the new organization.
4. Click the ‘Add organization’ button.
5. The new organizational unit appears as a child of the organizational unit you selected at step 1.

To enable/disable services for specific users:
1. Services that are disabled on the main dashboard will be disabled for all users.
2. Click the ‘Organizations & users’ tab.
3. Select the appropriate organization.
4. Click the ‘Services’ sub-tab.
5. Click ‘On/Off’ to change service settings or if it's a sub-organization, click 'Override this setting' or 'Use inherited' links to change settings.

Note: Standard and Partner Edition domains do not have the ability to create suborganizations.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/07/introducing-user-policy-management-for.html
Users and Organization: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=14578
Service settings: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=182442

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