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Google offers excellent email services for small businesses. We have found using these services from Google to be an excellent option in comparison to running your own Microsoft Exchange server.
I will walk you through how to setup Google Apps Email for your domain. The first thing you need to do to start using Google Apps is sign up for it. There is a premium service which costs money, and a standard service which is free. In this walk-through I We will use the standard edition. Sign up!
Select the option for “Administrator: I own or control this domain”.
Enter the domain name which will have email hosted by Google.
Click the Get Started button.
Fill in the required fields and place a check next to “I understand that if I cannot alter DNS records for my domain, I may impact my organization’s ability to use Google Apps”.
Click the Continue button.
Type a username and a password. Be sure to re-enter the password.
Read the Terms and Conditions for using the Google Apps service. When you are ready, click “I accept. Continue with set up »”.
This completes the registration. You are now logged in to your Google Apps Dashboard (control panel).
Once you create an account for your domain name, you must verify that you own the domain name.
At the top of your Dashboard you will see, “To activate Google Apps services you must verify that you own your domain – yourdomain.com”. Next to this, click the link called Verify domain ownership.
There are two ways you can verify that you own the domain:
1. (Recommended) You can upload an HTML file to your website.
2. You can create a CNAME record to point to google.com .
After you click the Verify button, allow up to 48 hours for Google to verify your are the owner of the domain name.
At the Google Apps Dashboard, click the 
Email link. You can change any of these settings as you see fit.
Click the link for Email activation Instructions on how to activate Email.
Read the instructions carefully. If your domain already has email addresses, you should create user accounts before changing your MX records.
Click the “Create user accounts” link.
Enter a first and last name for the email user. Enter the name of his email address.
Click the “Create new user” button.
If you need to create more e-mail accounts, click the “Create another user” link.
Once finished, go back to the Dashboard tab at the top. To quickly get to the next step, click the “Activate email” link, located directly under the 
Email link.
If you skipped creating email users, then click the “Change MX records” link.
Google reminds you to create the email users before you change the MX records, or you may have email downtime.
Google also offers you temporary email addresses, so you can use Google mail before the MX record change. The format is similar to name@yourdomain.com.test-google-a.com (The temporary email address will be deactivated once you change the MX records.)
You see “Showing instructions for” and a drop down box. Select “cPanel” as your hosting company. Follow the instructions, but there is an extra step you might need.
Note: The steps are for the cPanel X theme; however, most KingTechDesign clients are using the X3 theme. Here are the instructions for X3:
Be sure to go back to the Google Apps page and click the “I have completed these steps” button.
Go back to the Google Apps Dashboard and click the 
Email link.
Next to Web address you see a sign-in address (URL) which is similar to http://mail.google.com/a/yourdomain.com
The login is the email name WITHOUT @yourdomain.com and the temporary password given by Google. You can find the temporary password by going to the “Users and Groups” tab at the top. Click the email account in question, and the password will be revealed, or if the user has forgotten it, the administrator can reset the password. You can also add a DNS CNAME record for “mail” and point it to “ghs.google.com” to create an easy to remember URL for accessing your email, like http://mail.yourdomain.com
Google Apps also comes with Google Calendar and Google Docs, which are awesome tools for collaboration and organization that every small business should take advantage of.
To configure these, you would need to adjust the DNS records for your domain name to add a CNAME record for “calendar” and “docs” which point to “ghs.google.com” – please submit a support ticket to request any changes to your DNS records and they will be made as soon as possible.
Google Apps is an awesome tool for small businesses. It allows businesses to outsource their e-mail server IT maintenance to Google’s servers. Instead of having to rely on your company’s internal Microsoft Exchange servers (and licensing) to handle your company’s e-mail, you set this up and viola! Problem solved.
The problem that many people have with switching to a new system is the learning curve involved. G-mail is a little bit different than most web based e-mail systems in that it keeps track of your messages in a threaded view – meaning that replies to one message are kept with the original message.
Google Apps allows each user to also use Microsoft Outlook to connect to Google’s e-mail servers (using secure encryption methods) to send and receive e-mail just as they would with a standard e-mail account in Outlook.
A few settings need to be made to your Microsoft Outlook to make it function correctly with your g-mail email address (or Google Apps e-mail).
Your incoming email server should be set to pop.gmail.com using SSL on port 995.
Your outgoing email server should be set to smtp.gmail.com using SSL on port 465.
Your user name should be your Google Apps email address (yourname@yourdomain.com) – this is also the correct settings if you are using a gmail.com email account.
