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18 Feb, 2009

Enable iPhone sync for Google Apps users

Posted by: julien In: Mobile

If like me you own an iPhone as well as Google Apps account, I think you already tried to use the new iPhone sync feature for your calendars and contacts. If it perfectly works for standard GMail account, that’s not the case by default for Google Apps users.

Actually, your administrator has to activate the ‘Enable Google Sync’ option in the mobile section of your dashboard, otherwise it won’t work. OK, so what when the mobile service is not present in your dashboard ? Let’s solve this together.

The first step is to go in the Domain Settings of your dashboard and then to check the Next generation option of the Control Panel setting :

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The Mobile service must be visible and let you specified the Google Sync option for your users :

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Now, users have to follow the steps described in here to sync their calendar and contacts with Google Apps. This little trick made me lost a couple of hours …

1 Response to "Enable iPhone sync for Google Apps users"

1 | MacPedro

July 21st, 2009 at 11:57 pm

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Top tip. Google has had me tearing my hair out. Finally got a handle on Apps vs Account, and then couldn’t get sync working.

It’s easy when you know how!

Thanks

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