For those of you unfamiliar with Google Apps Premier Edition- it is a “perfect” office suite, e-mail, chat, video, shared calendar, and document management solution for any organization-big or small.
You use your existing Netfirms domain name and get some added major benefits:
- Free Setup and Configuration by Netfirms
- No more SPAM! (Well almost no more SPAM but only a couple a week on average isn’t that bad)
- Google Search for your email means you will never lose track of your email again
- Tracking at 99.99[9]% (or better) up-time
- Email and Calendar syncs to your phone or Blackberry perfectly and updates itself in real time
- It works with your existing email client or all through the web (all email clients are supported including MS Outlook, Mail, Thunderbird and more but most people love the Gmail web interface that means that you will never have to call to reconfigure your email client ever again.)
- Shared Calendars (It syncs to your phone or Blackberry perfectly and updates itself in real time)
- Shared Documents (Collaborate on shared Excel or Word documents online in real time with anyone)
- Have a problem – call Netfirms for immediate support with your account – 24/7.
Once you've completed the sign-up process for your Google Apps Premier edition through your Netfirms Control Panel our system will take care of automatically creating the necessary domain records in order to connect your domain name with the Google Apps services.
Once created there are a couple of ways you can access your Google Apps services.
- Access the Google Apps administration area from within your Netfirms Control Panel by navigating to the Google Apps link in the top menu bar and then click the Admin button shown below

- Visit https://www.google.com/a/domain.com (where domain.com is your actual domain name)
You may also access each service directly by using the sub-domains that were created for you:
- mail.domain.com
- calendar.domain.com
- docs.domain.com
- sites.domain.com
- video.domain.com