Anybody using google apps, opinions?

[Dano]

Have been asked by a local business to investigate a few things for them such as a group calendar, group access to certain email accounts (current access is set as pop3 which is causing duplicate issues) and online document access being a few, they have a basic box in the office being used as a data storage device and asked about the possibility of installing exchange on it and setting up a VPN so that they can access it while offsite.

While looking for information as this is a little out of my knowledge zone I came across google apps and it would seem like an ideal and inexpensive solution for them to use, has anybody got any experience of it at all? I'd welcome some opinions

Thanks.

 

[V4NT0M]

I use it, but only really for email, the interface is pretty easy to use. I guess the calendars work the same as the general gmail calendars which are really easy to invite other people and/or have public calendars.

 

[davethe11]

I use google apps, I like the mail a lot:

I like how you can use multiple labels to keep a single email in different folders.
I like the way reply-emails are grouped together into a conversation
Filtering is very easy to set up
I use IMAP and POP3, both are easy to set up

I also use google calendars, I have a private calendar that I sync to my phone using microsoft exchange, and a public one I share with a few colleagues, it's all easy to set up and easy to sort out permissions.

I also use google docs, though only for a few simple spreadsheets, but it's very handy to access them from anywhere, and I can send them as attachments to an email from within google docs which is very handy (you can send as csv, excel, pdf, and a few others).

I'm not a heavy user, but having all these things under one roof is very convenient, and I can't fault the services themselves, they make my life easier.

 

[asim18]

I've been using apps for about 2 years now. I only use the email and calendar.

Love it, never had a problem. The best thing about it is it's free!

 

[malef!c]

Been using it just for mail mainly, occasional doc use but nothing huge (don't want the big G spidering my docs ).

Only thing I prefer in Yahoo to GMail is the ability to create folders, labels just don't cut it with me for some reason. If they did that it would be the dogs hairy bits!