Anybody completed this successfully?
Mail is fine, and managed to hacked together a shared company calendar.... but really stuck with contacts!
Basic business requirement - around 1000 contacts (external people) on a public folder contacts list which everyone can see and edit - how do I migrate this to Google Contact Apps?
I have not done it but I thought there was a tool to do the job for you called 'Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange'
When I asked about Google Apps on here a while ago no one appeared to know what I was on about so I would not rely on STW for the answer in this case.
Good luck 🙂
Tried that, with no luck. Can't seem to find a way for the users (non admins) to edit the global contacts list (external potential sales contacts, etc).
Leaning towards a CRM system now, or very basic web-app querying contact details from a db.
Looks like only admins can edit the data. I don't know how it works, but can you not set them all as admins for that list only?
You can modify the shared contact list using XML/HTML, loads of info [url= http://code.google.com/googleapps/domain/shared_contacts/gdata_shared_contacts_api_reference.html#Updating ]here[/url], which may or may not be of any help!
Not sure shared contacts were possible. we ended up going with Google for mail and salesforce.com for customer info. I think zoho do one that's a good bit cheaper.
Looks like the only way it can be done is via the Contacts API - for updating global contacts. Pants. I could do it, but why re-invent the wheel? Looks like I'll be going down the cloud CRM route.
Cheers for your input people 🙂