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According to a post on the Google Enterprise Blog this morning, there's a new tool for Google Apps users that lets businesses sync the user account information in Google Apps with the business's LDAP user directory system. If you're in I.T., you probably already know what that means, but if not let me spell it out for you: Google now syncs with Microsoft's Active Directory. Of course, there are other systems that use LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), including Lotus Domino and even the open source software OpenLDAP , but syncing with Microsoft's Active Directory - the directory system used by businesses worldwide running Windows Server - that's a big deal. The syncing is made possible by way of a new utility called Google Apps Directory Sync , something that was brought over from Google's Postini security and archiving service.
Google Apps Now Syncs with Directory Systems...Yep, Like Microsoft's
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Posted by Saurabh Gupta, Developer Programs Engineer One day I was looking at how many messages I have in my sent mail, and realized there are a lot of things I wanted to know about my email habits. How much of my emails do I read, and do I reply fast enough? As luck would have it, Romain Vialard , a Google Apps Script Top Contributor, developed a tool called Gmail Meter powered by Google Apps Script . Gmail Meter is an Apps Script which runs on the first day of every month and sends you an email containing different statistics about your Inbox.