How to Share Contacts in Google Apps

Google Apps is a custom domain and Web application service that also allows an administrator to set up multiple users for various domains. When managing domains for users, you can create a list of contacts for each user. The administrator can then enable a feature for all of the contact lists to be shared, which is similar to global address list. The email accounts can also be synced with Gmail accounts for each user.

Things You'll Need

• Google Apps account

Instructions

1. Go to the Google Apps website using the link in Resources and click on the “Sign in here” button. Enter your email address and password and then click on the “Sign in” button.

2. Click on the “Learn More” button for Google Apps for Business or Google Apps for Education to sign up for a new account if you don’t already have one.

3. Click on the “User accounts” option from the “Dashboard” page and then click on the “Settings” option.

4. Click on the radio button next to the “Enable contact sharing” field so that it’s selected.

5. Click on the “Save changes” button. It may take at least 30 minutes for the changes to fully take place.

References

• Google Support: Enabling a Shared Address Book for Users
• Google Support: About Contact Sharing

Resources

• Google Apps