Setup Google Apps for Your Domain

Note: * Google stops offering Google Apps for free to focus on providing a paid-for experience



This is a tutorial on how to enable Google applications to work in your domain name. What I will be covering is the only email installation and webhosting. Why NOT hosting? Because almost all of you have a site down and now will not benefit from moving your website.
Why you benefit from moving mail to Google?

Because most of you are using a free email service from AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc ... and this is not a professional image.


Step 1:

Goto www.google.com/a and sign up for an account
If you already have a Gmail email you can use this account as the primary account for all settings, or you can sign up for a new Gmail account

Step 2:

Setup Domain Details.
Your Name, Your Organization, how many users, etc…

Step 3:

Setup the Primary Master account

Step 4:


Configuring applications to

For most of you its only going to want to configure Email and Calendar


Step 5:


The hardest part is the DNS change will have to do.

The next steps are copied directly from Google. They may be a little different depending on which host domain used.

1. Log in to your domain website hosting companies using the username and password associated with your domain.
2. Navigate to an MX record maintenance page. MX records are special DNS (Domain Name Service) records, and are often located under sections titled “DNS Management,” “Mail Server Configuration,” or “Name Server Management.” You may need to turn on advanced settings to allow editing of these MX records.
3. Delete any existing MX records before entering new MX records.
4. For each MX record, enter information according to the entries in the following table.Can not be allowed to enter the priority values ​​exactly as shown in the following table, in which case, simply ensure that the server addresses are prioritized in the same order they appear in the table.
    (i.e. The priority ranking [1, 3, 3, 5, 5, 5, 5] should work just as well as [1, 5, 5, 10, 10, 10, 10] so long as you keep the addresses in the right order.)If you’re asked to specify the type of each record you’re adding, enter “MX”.MX records often require the specific format of DNS records, including a trailing dot (“.”) at the end of any full-qualified domain names (e.g. “server.example.com.”)  Set any TTL values to the maximum allowed.

MX Server address	Priority
ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.	1
ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.	5
ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.	10
ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.	10

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