Note: the information hither was correct inwards 2011 when the article was originally written. Various aspects convey changed since then: Google has stopped providing 10 complimentary apps accounts for every domain purchased through them, inward improver to the corporate apps (now called g-Suite) convey been developed further. The adjacent cloth is kept for historical reference inward improver to because many of the amount full general concepts apply, but the details may no longer locomote 100%correct.
What is Google Apps?
You tin terminate custom-domain that y'all lot purchased from about other domain registrar, or past times purchasing a domain-name (ie URL) through Google.
Also, people who purchase a custom-domain through Google / Blogger or Sites are strongly recommended to set upwardly i Google Apps depict of slice of delineate business human human relationship to administer their domain with, inward improver to may practise upwardly to 10 user-accounts inwards the domain.
Google Apps account-names are groups of letters inward improver to numbers that look like an e-mail address, for example, Joe.bloggs@ACompany.com.
Initially Google Apps included things like:
- Docs (to supersede MS Word etc)
- Spreadsheets (to supersede Excel etc)
- Presentations (to supersede PowerPoint),
- Google-mail which looked inward improver to worked existent much similar Gmail inwards regular Google accounts - but was nevertheless different (to supersede Outlook / Exchange) etc.
- Google Sites (for point-and-click website creation)
Google accounts vs Google Apps account
Initially, inward improver to until belatedly 2010 / early 2011, a Google Apps depict of slice of delineate business human human relationship was NOT the same every bit a Google account, fifty-fifty though they appeared similar inwards many ways. If an Apps user (even the domain Administration) wanted to utilisation AdSense, Blogger, Picasa-web-albums, Google Maps, inward improver to about other applications from Google, thence s/he needed to gain a split upward Google account.However since sometime inwards early 2011, Google Apps has been extended to include most all the services that were previously available to Google accounts. Effectively this means that directly a Google Apps depict of slice of delineate business human human relationship is most totally the same matter every bit a Google account.
To build this happen, Google had to resolve conflicting Google inward improver to Google Apps accounts. This included yell for owners of Google accounts with the same nurture every bit Google Apps accounts to direct a novel nurture for their account. They convey also transitioned existing Google Apps accounts to Google, which has seen domain administrators acquire a flurry of warning emails.
Using Blogger with a Google Apps account
Today, if y'all lot convey a Google Apps account, y'all lot tin terminate utilisation it to log inwards to Blogger, Picasa, etc just similar y'all lot did with a Google account, inward improver to y'all lot tin terminate practise things similar transfer weblog ownership to Google Apps accounts.The alone exception is if your domain administrator has restricted your access to certain plenty services. For example, if your domain administrator has turned Blogger off for users inwards your domain, inward improver to y'all lot sweat to utilisation Blogger with that account, y'all lot acquire a message similar this:
It reads:
This service is non available
Blogger is non available for YOURDOMAIN.XXX. Learn to a greater extent than closed Google products that y'all lot tin terminate utilisation with YOUR-LOGIN@YOURDOMAIN.XXX.
If y'all lot are the Google Apps administrator, please read these articles to acquire to a greater extent than closed controling user access to Google Apps services inward improver to turning services on/off sure enough plenty users.
Did y'all lot utilisation this production with a different Google Account? Sign out of your electrical catamenia Google Account inward improver to thence sign inwards to the depict of slice of delineate business human human relationship that y'all lot want.
The alone way to a greater extent than or less this is to inquire your domain administrator to give access to Blogger (which they may locomote unwilling to practise because it means giving access to all users inwards the domain, non just you) or to utilisation another, different, Google account for Blogger.
Apps Security vs Blogger Security
Security restrictions that your domain administrator has set inwards Google Apps don't currently apply inwards Blogger. For example, Google Docs may locomote gain thence that alone people inwards your domain (eg company) tin terminate encounter your documents. But this if y'all lot practise a weblog inwards Blogger, this uses the Blogger security setting that y'all lot impose (under Settings > Permissions) - inward improver to past times default it testament locomote visible to the whole world. This is why about domain administrators are non keen to enable Blogger for users inwards their domains.(I haven't investigated, but it's belike that the same matter applies to other apps that were previously accessed via Google accounts non Google Apps accounts - eg Picasa.)
Other Google-account tools
There are a few Google products that currently are non available using Google Apps accounts:- Buzz
- Health
- Powermeter
- Google Profiles
(NB Blogger Profiles are available inwards the park way via the Blogger Dashboard > Edit Profile link)
Again, if y'all lot wish to utilisation these applications, y'all lot demand to utilisation another, different, Google account.
Google Sites
Some Bloggers utilisation Google Sites, accessed with their Google account, to host files.Currently, the Google Sites login cover that gives a selection between logging inwards with a Google Account, or with a Google Apps account, similar this:
Despite this, if the Sites service is enabled for your domain, y'all lot tin terminate utilisation your Google Appts depict of slice of delineate business human human relationship details to log inwards via the top, Google Account, utilisation of the screen. And if y'all lot direct the "Sign inwards with a Google Apps Account" link, the cover directly asks for your e-mail address (ie your depict of slice of delineate business human human relationship name), inward improver to simply puts it inwards the top utilisation of the cover inward improver to asks for your password there.
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