Domains whose admins have enabled the ‘enable pre-release features’ checkbox in the Control Panel
The following new features are now available in Google Calendar for these domains:

Optional attendees: When adding invitees to an event, you now have the ability to communicate the importance of a meeting for each attendee.

New event page for some domains: The recently released new event page is now also available to domains that have enabled our Google Calendar Connectors API which shows data from other services. This page was previously unavailable to these domains.

Domains with ‘enable pre-release features’ checkbox disabled
For these domains, the following features are intended for release on December 7:

- Optional attendees.
- New event page for domains that have enabled our Google Calendar Connectors API.

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Calendar

How to access what's new:
Optional attendees: When editing an event with invitees, click on the “Make some attendees optional link” above the guest list and then toggle the role of each attendee by clicking the icon next to his or her name.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/11/optional-attendees-in-google-calendar.html

Join us for a 'What's new in Google Apps' webinar.
When: 2:00 pm (PST) Wednesday December 1.
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Domains using the shared contacts functionality can have up to 50,000 entries, up from 25,000. Shared contacts are part of the organization’s global address list (GAL), and these contacts auto-complete across Google Apps.

We also made updates to the Shared Contacts API to make uploading much more quicker.

Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

How to access what's new:
- Information on the Shared Contacts API

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-apps-shared-contacts-now-with.html
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138760

Ideas for Tasks! If you're using Tasks, you've probably thought about something you'd like us to improve or an additional feature you wish you had. We really want to hear your ideas - whether they're for Tasks in Gmail, in Google Calendar, or on your phone.

For the next few weeks, we're running a poll for Tasks feature requests. Admin feedback is very important to us, so if you have a few minutes, please visit this product ideas page and vote to help us improve Tasks functionality for you and your users.

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All Google Apps customers now have the ability to access over 60 new applications.

Existing customers can transition at their own pace over the next couple months to the new infrastructure supporting these applications from the administrative control panel. New customers will automatically have the new infrastructure. The additional services are not covered by the Google Apps SLA or telephone support, but we’ll be watching for feedback how we can make these new applications even more useful.

In tandem with this big improvement, we’re also simplifying the names of the versions of Google Apps. Here’s how we now refer to our line-up:
- Google Apps is our free service geared towards families, entrepreneurs and other groups up to 50 users.
- Google Apps for Business offers 25GB of email storage per user, a 99.9% uptime guarantee, data migration capabilities, advanced management tools, telephone support, added security features and more, all for $50 per user per year.
- Google Apps for Government is FISMA certified and designed with local, state and federal agencies in mind.
- Google Apps for Education offers many benefits of Google Apps for Business, but at no cost to schools, universities and qualifying non-profits.

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Apps

How to access what's new:
- Administrators can log into the administrator Control Panel and on the ‘Google Apps is changing’ section, click ‘Get Started’ to begin the transition to the new infrastructure.
- Once the transition is complete, in the ‘Organization & users’ tab, click ‘Services’ to view and control which applications are available to users at the domain.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/11/ten-times-more-applications-for-google.html
Help Center: New infrastructure for Google Apps accounts

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The following new features are now available in Google Docs:

Mobile editing: Log in to your Google Docs on a browser on a supported device, and select the document you want to edit. Then, when you’re viewing it, press the ‘Edit’ button to switch to the mobile editor. If you use an Android device with voice input, you can also use this to add text to your document.

Text replacements: We have added the ability to substitute text automatically and being able to manage the replacements.

LaTeX shortcuts in equations: LaTeX is a document markup language that’s often used by academics to quickly type out complex formulas. In Google Docs, when you’re inside an equation you can type '\sqrt' followed by a space or a parenthesis to automatically convert the text into a square root sign √. Other examples of useful shortcuts are '\frac' for a fraction and shorthands like '\epsilon' for Greek symbols. Full list of equation shortcuts here.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education, Team, Partner Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
Mobile editing: US English
Others: All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
Mobile editing: Over the next few days, we’re rolling this out to English-language users around the world on Android with Froyo (version 2.2) and on iOS devices (version 3.0+) including the iPad. We’ll be adding support for other languages soon.

Text replacements: You can right click on a misspelled word, go down to the ‘AutoCorrect’ option, and choose a way of automatically fixing this spelling mistake in the future.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/11/editing-your-google-docs-on-go.html
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/11/faster-typing-fewer-mistakes.html

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Today we launched 8 new apps from 3rd party developers, available in the Google Apps Marketplace. Many of these apps are free or have free trials and include project management, data backup, resource management, and communication tools. You can add these integrated applications to your Google Apps subscription with just a few clicks.

Editions included:
Standard, Premier, Education Edition and Google Apps for Government

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
- Go to http://www.google.com/appsmarketplace
- Choose an app from the productivity, accounting and finance, or CRM categories, among others.
- Click the blue ‘Add it now’ button to add the app for your users.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/10/app-tuesday-brings-marketplace-apps.html

If you’ve #gonegoogle, and tried the #appsmarketplace, let others know what you recommend - via Twitter, Google Buzz or submit your suggestions for additional apps to us.

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