Google Apps for Domains - A Great Choice
I have been using Google Apps for Domains for my small business a few months now. That was a pretty easy setup with only a few accounts.
Last week a had a bigger migration with 30+ users. The group is a non-profit with limited technical ability. We where on a SmartMail server and where suffering from a tremendous amount of Spam. To the point that important messages where being lost. As well a lot of user where forward to AOL and other highly spam monitored accounts. Due to the forwarding legitimate message where being blocked as Spam.
So we moved Google Apps for Domains. We where immediately approve for 50 accounts and set up from the Google end in less then a day.
We created all the accounts via the import tool. Rebuilt some distribution lists. Once the project was started we had all our users and list created with in 8 hours man time. We switched the DNS and invite everyone to gain access to their accounts. The invite is even part of the tool set.
In first 24 hours the main administrative address for the organization had a 95% reduction in Spam.
Over all, if you considering Google Apps for Domains. I highly recommend it.
As a geek I wish there was more of an open API for account administration. However trading that for the usability for our end users was easy.