Google-apps – Customize Google Apps menu

Google are beginning to transition Google Apps accounts to full accounts. My domain just went through this transition and now I have access to most Google services using my Google Apps account. Previously I used to have an alex@mydomain.com Google Apps account and a google@mydomain.com Google account - it got rather annoying after a while!

I outlined in this post which services transition across and how. The main ones I don't seem to have access to are:

• Google Buzz - I get a 404 Page Not Found when going to http://buzz.google.com when logged in
• Google Profile - I think this is linked to the above.

(Google have a bit about these two here)

I also seem unable to share items in Google Reader - which Google know about it seems.

There's a bit more info from Google here and here, but I'm not sure if you can initiate the transition before they issue you with an invitation...

We needed to setup a distribution list where there were many aliases but they all were delivered to the same users. The best approach we found was creating a fake user account, setting up aliases on that account, forwarding the email to a real group, and using the group membership function to setup the distribution list. Works reasonably well, but having aliases for a group would be better.

Looks like you can also nest groups within groups. There is at least one help topic that recommends this approach. The above mentioned approach does give a few other features however, such as vacation responders and the ability to backup mailing list email using POP/IMAP.