@Leebeard said in Create Microsoft account with Gmail:

Thanks for replying, and for the suggestions also. Because before that, I didn't know about the information you provided. However, I did a Google search yesterday and found this. According to that, it is possible to do the job. Please tell me, can I follow the instructions? Or please tell me if it is true or not.

Only way to know is to try following it. I've not done it, I don't need MS accounts. Just give it a try and let us know.

We use Google services here. We had a quirk around 6am-7am on Monday. No end-user issues reported since that 1 hour. However all of our facilities are within TX.

so I spoke to a very nice rep at Blissfully named Daniel . Great guy!
I am not sure if they are a direct comparison to BetterCloud.
but I will say that they are at least responsive.
BetterCloud seems to not want any business as they dont pick up the phone and no responses since Tuesday to emails.

@gjacobse said in Google Family Link: Control Chromebook:

They likely won't use Youtube or Youtube Kids... They already watch that on iPads and a laptop.. so they truely don't need yet another device to YT on ..

They also don't need Netflix - again.. on other devices and we want to be able to control some of what they get to.

Besides controlling what they can download from Google Play store, I would just worry about blocking websites. Either stick with blocking mature sites or only allow certain sites.

So for some reason I couldn't get it to work with the to or from email addresses: however I set the rule to filter for Aloha_Support_forum and Bingo- They are no longer cluttering up my inbox!

Set it to skip the inbox and auto apply my filter, did the same for all matching conversations. Just had three come in and didnt get a single on in my inbox.
I call that a win.

@jaredbusch said in Does Office 365 Support Plus Notation in Email (+):

@scottalanmiller said in Does Office 365 Support Plus Notation in Email (+):

@kelly said in Does Office 365 Support Plus Notation in Email (+):

The period notation is really annoying for me. I signed up fname.lname@gmail.com when it was in beta and this "feature" wasn't publicized. Years later someone else was able to register fnamelname@gmail.com and now I get DoTerra order details and the like. I have no idea what I don't get at this point.

Don't know about a period notation feature. What does that do? And how do that not break email globally?

The same way that + doesn't break it. It is outside of the RFC altogether. So as long as wtf ever service you sign up for lets you type it, then you can do it.

As for what it does. Well jared.busch@domain.com is a common thing. But someone that signs up to gmail with fnamename@gmail.com can also receive email from email sent to f.name.l.name@gmail.com or even f.n.a.m.e.l.n.a.m.e@gmail.com.

Google simply ignore all periods on the left of the @ for gmail based email addresses. Gmail only, not GSuite.

Wow, that's.... weird. I guess it works until they do something like the story above and screw it up.

@wls-itguy said in New Gmail UI:

Am I the only one to still not see the Early release option?

It's finally there!

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What you may need to do is log in to the Calendar's web interface on Google... then go to Settings.

Then click on the Calendar you need to sync... and then scroll to the bottom and get the "Secret Adddress in iCal format"

Then Link that one in iCal on the Mac... I think you add it by URL... But that should give you 2 way Syncing, not a one time import.

Started working, took about five hours for the emails to flow. Must have been a long setup time on the back end.

@BBigford said:

@scottalanmiller What are you using for company email archiving? I no longer have a need for a solution that records up to 10 years, but always curious what others use.

We use all integrated with O365 these days.

Check out Waterford Technologies.

Outlook/OWA - maybe simply because I've used them for so long. Familiarity doesn't always breed contempt.

@thanksajdotcom said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

Everyone has a reason for what they do. I'm sure Google felt it made sense when they set that up, which was probably at least 10 years ago.

Making sense often just means being lazy. Being lazy or not bothering are common, logical reasons for doing things. I just wish that the reasoning was better than that.

I'm not disagreeing but remember that what may be totally illogical to us might make perfect sense to someone else.

I never implied that laziness was illogical. It's perfectly logical. Their laziness outranked their desire for a good user experience. Extremely logical.

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Okay, so if I Archive + Label, it will act like a folder, more or less?

What happens if you Archive but don't Label?

The message, for all intents just vanishes.... but you can get to mail that is archived with no labels on Gmail by searching for

-label:inbox and has:nouserlabels

That should get you there.

Or just click all mail as noted above. No need for arcane search syntax.

@Dashrender said:

@thanksaj said:

@Dashrender said:

I haven't tried letting all of that stuff connect on my Android device.

Does it allow the use of your real phone number, not a google voice number?

You can text from your phone with your real number via Hangouts but not from your PC. When you SMS from your PC with Hangouts, it always uses Google Voice. Your phone just uses the last number that sent a text to the number your text as the source. You can switch back and forth and Hangouts aggregates it all into one thread in Hangouts. It's nice.

The other side could be confused though if they don't have your google voice number in your contact, or worse, it can't aggregate sources.

Hangouts goes by contacts, so if you have someone who had 17 cellphone numbers and you had them all saved in your phone under one contact, all texts would be aggregated into one conversation. But yes, if someone doesn't have an SMS client that aggregates, it will make your texts via Google Voice and texts via your cell number as separate threads.

@thecreativeone91 said:

Will they please take the integration out of Youtube now... It has made comments on Youtube hard to follow.

Huh? are you implying that comments were ever able to be followed?

@Carnival-Boy said:

I hoped this would be an interesting thread on Google Apps, but it turns out to be another Spiceworks slag-fest 😞

For me, there's an open source feel about Google Apps, with all the third-party scripts available as well as a pretty powerful API that let's you write your own applications. I've spent some time on this trying to get our ERP application to update jobs on Google Maps Coordinate, with limited success. There's a good site here https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground/ where you can see what API features are available with all of Google's products. I find it all a bit of a mess and the documentation is pretty limited. There's an assumption that you have a high degree of competency already when developing Google apps, which I don't have as I'm not a web developer and have no prior experience of OAuth. I think I'm in far too deep trying to develop Google Maps Coordinate, but if you're a professional developer I imagine Google app development is a lot of fun.

Does O365 have similar?

Office 365 uses ADFS, which has an SDK available for it, if you want applications with true SSO. Otherwise, the clients are your typical Outlook, Lync, Excel, etc, so most of the addons would be targeted towards them. SharePoint Designer's available for SharePoint. Since Office 365 includes PowerShell, it can be used as a tie-in for third-party administrative solutions.