Google Apps Updates: More features in administrator Chat settings!

Administrators now have more control over how their users use Chat and can:– Enable/disable their user’s ability to chat outside the domain.

– Enable a setting to automatically accept chat invitations between users in their domain.

Editions included:
Premier and Education Editions

Languages included:
US English

How to access what’s new:
Go to Chat settings in the control panel, and enable/disable the checkbox ‘Users can chat with other users outside this domain’. This will also affect the ability to chat within the Google Network.

To set automatic acceptance of invitations to chat, enable/disable the checkbox ‘Automatically accept chat invitations between users in this domain’. Please note that your users will be able to override this setting and it’s a default setting only.

For more information:
https://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60767