Recently the IT department has made a change in email delivery that creates what is called dual delivery. This change currently only impacts mail sent from addresses other than a wallingford.k12.ct.us email addresses. In our testing, the dual delivery does not impact mail from being delivered to Outlook. The messages simply are sent to both places.

Please take note of the following:

Some emails may appear in Outlook that do not appear in the Gmail Inbox. Google’s spam filter is much more extensive than our system and some emails may be sent straight to your spam folder in the gmail. Some emails may appear at the wallingfordschools.org that do not appear in the Outlook Inbox or in Outlook at all. In our testing, these emails were found in the Junk Mail folder in Outlook. We also found that gmail is letting some mail through that our network's spam filter was blocking. Therefore, if you find mail in gmail that did not come to Outlook it is probably something you would never have received because it was blocked by the spam filter.

 In all our test scenarios we have found no missing mail. If you have a problem please let us know by completing the following form. CLICK HERE FOR FORM

 

Drive for Education will be available to all Google Apps for Education customers at no charge and will include:

·                     Unlimited storage: No more worrying about how much space you have left or about which user needs more gigabytes. Drive for Education supports individual files up to 5TB in size and will be available in coming weeks. 

·                     Vault: Google Apps Vault, our solution for search and discovery for compliance needs, will be coming free to all Apps for Education users by the end of the year. 

·                     Enhanced Auditing: Reporting and auditing tools and an Audit API easily let you see the activity of a file, are also on the way. 

 

 

http://googleforeducation.blogspot.com/2014/09/announcing-drive-for-education-21st.html

As I mentioned in my August 1st post, Google Drive has updated.

We often get requests to reset passwords for staff or students. When one requests a password reset they are notified to contact their administrator. But who is the administrator?  The good news is that we have many staff members in the district that have the ability to change Google user passwords. Each of these people has volunteered to help people reset their passwords.

Recently Google Drive has updated and so have the sharing settings.

There's a new look to Google Drive. If you haven't already been upgraded to the new Drive you can experience it by going to the settings gear in the top right and choosing the option for Experience the New Drive.

When you want to share the address for a publicly shared document or calendar the URL's can be a little long. In this case use the Google URL shortener. Copy the full address of the item you wish to share and then go to goo.gl in your borwser. Paste the long URL into the site and click shorten URL. A new shorten URL will be provided. When logged in to the wallingfordschools.org account your shortened URL's will be saved. You may always come back here and retrieve the shortened URL's you've already made. You may also view statistics regarding the use of these URL.