Over the next few weeks, Google will start transitioning to the new version of Google documents. Here are some of the new features in the new Google Docs that we are excited about:-

• Real time collaboration: See updates from other collaborators as they edit the document.
• Higher-quality imports: More consistent imports from your desktop into Google Docs.
• Chat with other collaborators: As you make your edits, you can chat with other document editors about the changes, from within the document.
• Ruler: Google documents have a ruler for setting margins, indentations, and tab stops.
• Google spreadsheets  editable formula bar, and cell auto-complete.

The goal of these changes is to make sharing and collaboration even easier and to give you even more control of your Google files.

The basics aren’t different. You can still share your docs with as many or as few people as you like — and it’s all under your control. But now, you can assign a visibility option to a doc in just one step. Check out the descriptions of these options below to get started.

Within the domain

Private

When you create a private doc, you are the only person with access to it. And from there, you can grant access to other people. Anyone trying to access the document will have to sign in to verify that they have access to the doc, unless you change its sharing setting.

Private is the best setting for confidential documents or if you want to collaborate within a closed circle of people.

People at your domain with the link

A doc set to ‘People at your domain with the link’ is accessible to anyone inside the domain who knows the URL of the document. If you also select the ‘Allow anyone to edit’ option, anyone with the URL will be able to view and edit your document.

Docs in this category will generally not be indexed by internal search tools, but they may show up in search results if the doc URL is included on another page that is indexed.

Your domain

Docs that are set to your domain can be accessed by anyone in the domain. Docs with this setting may be indexed by internal search tools and may be opened by anyone in the domain. If you also select the ‘Allow anyone to edit’ option, anyone with the URL will be able to view and edit your document.

Outside the domain

Note: Some domain administrators do not allow docs to be shared outside of the domain.

Anyone with the link

If you select ‘Anyone with the link’, anyone who knows the web address of a document can view it. No sign-in is required to view the document. If you also select the ‘Allow anyone to edit’ option, anyone with the URL will be able to view and edit your document. Since sign-in is not required, viewers and editors may appear as anonymous users.

Docs in this category are generally not indexed by search engines, but they may show up in search results if the doc URL is included on another webpage that is indexed.

Public on the web

Public documents get indexed by search engines (like Google Web Search), and are accessible by anyone on the web. Set a doc to public if you want anyone to be able to see it.

Click ‘Share’ to open Sharing settings

To change the sharing setting of your doc (say, from Private to Anyone with the link), you’ll click the Share button in the top right corner of the doc. Here’s what you can do from the Sharing settings box:

• Change your doc’s visibility option — just click Change to the right of the visibility option.
• See who has access to your doc — their names are listed in the window, along with whether they can view or edit.
• Add editors or viewers by name — just click the white space below ‘Add people’ and type any email address.
• Reset your doc’s web address — just click Reset link under the doc URL (Anyone with the link docs only).
• Remove editors and viewers, or adjust how much access each person has.
• Transfer ownership of your doc to someone else. Just choose ‘Is owner’ from the drop-down next to any person with access to the doc.

New Features

• Display number of used and allocated licenses on the ‘License Key’ dialog
• Use Unicode more effectively to deal with non-western character sets
• Added a ‘Modify Request’ option to the Google settings to help deal with a proxy issue
• Added special handling for Turkish characters
• Added an option to migrate only the plain text body for internal GroupWise emails

Fixes

• Ensure that ‘Application Identifier’ is persisted. This is important so that, if using multiple tool instances with one database server, the correct database is used for each tool instance
• Documentation updated with new advice regarding using a shared database setup with multiple tool instances

For migrations using multiple tool instances with a shared database, this upgrade is highly recommended. Also please ensure that each instance of the tool has a different ‘Application Identifier’ if using with a shared database setup.

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The full list of changes includes:

New Features

• Added statistical information on the ‘Progress’ tab
• Added icons to represent migration progress
• Improved GroupWise diagnostics in the connection tester
• Added menu item to re-register GroupWise DLLs
• Renamed ‘Alternate Message Export’ to ‘Message Export Method’
• Ability to choose from one of three alternate ‘Message Export Method’ options for GroupWise (default is ‘Enhanced’ which is the most robust in most situations)
• Added a new message export method ‘Fallback’, to be used if all others fail for GroupWise
• Changed user import/export statistics to links to make the ability to click more obvious. Click the numbers next to the user status on the ‘Progress’ tab for information about individual messages
• Users are now added manually via an ‘Add User’ context menu item. Right click in the grid on the ‘Users’ tab.
• List of recent configuration files can be accessed in the file menu
• GroupWise is now the default migration platform
• Renamed ‘Use Sync Event’ to ‘Prevent Appointment Fanout’ in migration options
• Other minor UI tweaks

Fixes

• Fixed a selection bug in the user configuration list
• Included an updated build of the Google client libraries to enable migrations on non-English number format systems again

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For more information about the migration tool or if you have an support queries, please contact us.

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The Cloud Google Migrator can migrate your organisations Novell GroupWise or Microsoft Exchange system to Google Apps.

This latest release of the Cloud Google Migrator brings the following new features and fixes:

• Full support for Exchange 2000
• Made GroupWise Archive label name configurable
• Fixed an issue with resolving Exchange 2000 user URLs

Exchange 2000 is now also fully supported by the migration tool. That brings the list of supported systems to:

• Novell GroupWise 6.5 to 8
• Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003 and 2007

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• Check installation integrity on application startup
• Fallback on alternate message export if normal GroupWise message export fails
• Fixed an issue with removal of attachments on oversized messages
• Made maximum permitted message size configurable
• Fixed a problem with some Exchange 2000 installations with invalid XML characters

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• Support for Microsoft Exchange 2000 migrations
• More flexible licensing scheme

BETA support for Microsoft Exchange 2000 has now just been added to the tool. The same technologies used for Exchange 2003 and 2007 are used with Microsoft Exchange, but if you do run into any problems with Exchange 2000, please let us know.

For more information about the migration tool or if you have an support queries, please contact us.

• Enabled better select/deselect functionality on user list tab
• Improved trace logging to allow for better sorting
• Skip GroupWise folders when GroupWise API fails on corrupted accounts
• Skip attached GroupWise messages when attached message is corrupt and cannot be accessed via the API
• Enabled use on systems with non-English number formats

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• Updated to latest release of Google libraries
• Force users to change password on next login
• Changed file extension of exported user information to .csv

The new option to force users to change password on login is a useful addition for any migration, bringing yet more flexibility and options to how you can migrate an organisation to Google Apps.

The Cloud Google Migrator remains the only commercial product that can move your organisations Novell GroupWise infrastructure to Google Apps (we also migrate Microsoft Exchange, all in the same tool).

For more information about the migration tool or if you have an support queries, please contact us.

To download a trial of the tool see here.

The Cloud Google Migrator remains the only commercial product that can move your organisations Novell GroupWise infrastructure to Google Apps. For more information about the migration tool, please contact us.

To download a trial of the tool see here.

This release also brings stablity enhancements for both Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWise migrations.

The Cloud Google Migrator remains the only commercial product that can move your organisations Novell GroupWise infrastructure to Google Apps. For more information about the migration tool, please contact us.