Gonna test some Phones

As part of our migration from Groupwise to Google Apps for EDU, we will be phasing out our BES server. We are now getting ready to compare the Droid (G1) and the Nexus One (N1). Can we use an unlocked Nexus with a voice-only plan, but use our internal Wifi for data? One thread is here

Testing IMAP pull from Groupwise into Google Apps

Testing my IMAP connector for pulling Groupwise mail into Google mail.  On any user (so far) other than myself, I can get it to run properly.  However, I'm getting a

An unknown error encountered during the conversation with the IMAP server

error. The Learn more is not very helpful

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???