So far so good

Last night I was checking the stats of our mail (and spam) flows to Postini from the Postini console and noticed zero statistics.  Checked the guide and found out the reports update every 24 hours or so, so this morning, checked again and found some stats!  At least at our South location, I was surprised to see the low volume of mail, I thought it would be much much higher.

Postini update

Mail is flowing!  Made a few easy DNS changes, changed a few Google Apps domain settings and mail is moving!

Just signed up for Postini for our student domains

Just signed up for Postini for our student domains, getting ready now to start looking at the management console.

Check out this article:

Postini on ZDNet

Google Apps IMAP Migration - Groupwise

I have successfully used the Google Apps IMAP migration tool with 3 Groupwise users, trying it out to see how much we will do on our own.  While Groupwise is officially in the "unsupported" category, I'm having some success so far.

OMG - Cloud Storage!!

While sitting at a Google Apps user's group, this went up!   Can I finally begin to stop providing so much storage space for home drives???

Google Apps User Group - Chicago

I'm sitting here currently participating in a new Google Apps User group for Teachers and Administrators at Attea Middle School in Glenview, IL.  The discussion is interesting, there are about 50 teachers/administrators here.  Seems like about 90% of the group has some set or subset of Google Apps for EDU set up, but there is a huge gulf of Google experience between all the participants.

I just talked a bit about participating in the Teacher's Summit last year and how interesting it was to hear directly from some of the Google product managers.

Getting Users used to the Cloud

The cloud is coming for our school email. We have around 1,200 Groupwise users, all staff have an email address. For me that means teachers, administrators, maintenance staff, supervisory staff, etc, quite a diverse group. We have had Groupwise for years and years and now are getting ready to move to our next step, Google Mail in the Google Apps for EDU.

My boss (Hank Thiele) and I attended a Google Teacher summit at the Googleplex earlier this year (he was a panelist) and one of my favorite parts was hearing the actual project managers from Google talk about the best practice for use of their products. One major takeaway regarding Google mail was the idea that folders (used heavily in our environment) was something to be replaced, more directly by using tags, but in the end, it might be even better to simply archive EVERYTHING that comes in, relying on the Google search features to find your communications. We'll see how that flies at District 207.