News!! Enabling Blogger On Google Apps Domains

For Google Apps accounts, access to Blogger is controlled yesteryear the domain administrator.  This article shows why domain administrators may desire to plough off Blogger access, for their domains - and describes how to enable Blogger access if required.

Blogger together with Google Apps Domains

Google Accounts,  the difference betwixt Google together with Google Apps accounts, together with the move beingness done to resolve conflicting accounts.  

People who accept Google accounts tin move role Blogger yesteryear going to www.Blogger.com.   But for Google Apps concern human relationship users, access to Blogger is controlled yesteryear the domain administrator.  There are reasons why domain administrators may non desire their users to accept Blogger.    But in that place may hold upwardly times when it is appropriate, thence this post shows how to enable Blogger access, too.

Why boundary Blogger access:

Reasons why domain administrators (from commercial companies at least) powerfulness non desire to allow their users to role Blogger amongst their domain account, include:

• It doesn't experience similar work:

Other Google products accessed amongst domain accounts tin move hold upwardly laid to role the domain-owner's logo.  So they await similar a fellowship tool, fifty-fifty though they're provided yesteryear Google.   This reminds people that they should exclusively role the accounts to produce things that are appropriate "at work".   But Blogger cannot (currently) hold upwardly ready inward this way - people who are using it may forget that they are using a move / scheme tool, together with may hold upwardly tempted to issue personal fabric using the account.

• Access control:

Firstly, in that place is currently no way to role Blogger to issue a weblog that tin move hold upwardly read yesteryear everyone using the domain, together with non seen yesteryear anyone exterior it.    This agency that Blogger cannot hold upwardly used for fellowship businesses that should non hold upwardly shared exterior the company.    (The closest selection inward Blogger is to ready a individual weblog together with invite people to read it - but in that place is a maximum of 100 invitations ever, together with also this selection does opened upwardly or thence safety holes.)

• What happens when people leave

In well-managed companies, when a someone leaves their domain concern human relationship is deleted (perhaps afterwards a calendar month or two, inward representative they come upwardly back).    If someone has made a document or weblog using domain account, together with that domain concern human relationship is deleted, together with thence it's probable that the document or weblog volition hold upwardly deleted too.   This isn't such a big bargain for documents:  they tin move hold upwardly transferred to other accounts.    But fifty-fifty though in that place is a procedure for transferring ownership of blogs, in that place are or thence items normally institute within blogs (eg pictures, videos) that cannot hold upwardly transferred given the tools that Google offering at the moment.

No Blogger access at all

There may hold upwardly times when it is appropriate to allow people to access Blogger through your domain accounts.

Currently, this is all-or-nothing:  either yous laissez passer on access to everyone or no one.   Google Apps doesn't accept a way to allow yous laissez passer on access to modest grouping of your users.

Procedure for transferring weblog wnership

Understanding Google accounts

The departure betwixt Google together with Google Apps accounts

Resolving conflicting Google together with Google apps accounts.

Restricting your blog's readers isn't equally secure equally you'd imagine

Setting upwardly your custom domain

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