Missing Features

[Christopher Shields]

Hello All,

We are considering moving our Staff and Faculty into Google Apps for all email, calendar, and contacts from GroupWise.  The staff are heavy users of calendars and all of the advanced features of busy searching, shared calenders/resources, delegating appointments, and the list goes on.  I know there are larger schools that have completed moves to Google Apps for all collaboration.  What features from a contacts, calendar, and email standpoint are missing when moving from a enterprise email system like GroupWise or Exchange?  Will our power users be happy with the outlook integration?  Does the ActiveSync integration work as well with power users?

Thanks,

Chris

 

 

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Christopher Shields   Data Center Manager   630.466.5732   cshi...@waubonsee.edu

 

 

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[Paul Inboriboon]

Some of the missing calendar features we found post migration are:

1. You cannot add attachments to calendar invites like you can to an email.  The attachment has to be on Google Drive and shared out to the guest list.  Very inconvenient.

2.  The Android mobile Gmail app does not allow Google Apps users to send accept/decline responses to meeting organizers that have Exchange/Outlook.  So meeting organizers using Outlook do not know if can or cannot make the meeting.  This basic functionality works for Google Apps user with Apple iPhones and blackberries.  It is very odd that we cannot promote a full Google experience.  We have to recommend iPhones and Blackberries to Google Apps users instead of Google Android.  I am still waiting for a response > https://groups.google.com/a/appsusersgroup.com/d/topic/northcentral/VLT4ybW6lVE/discussion

Not missing, but this tripped people up after coming from Exchange - they did not know how to "send" a calendar invite because in Google apps the only options are "Save" and "discard". They have to click "save" and then the user gets prompted to send an invite to guests.

One awesome feature that our version of Exchange did not have, but Google Apps did - blind copy calendar guests.  No longer have to worry about meetings getting changed or replies to the whole group.