Administering Gmail for Business

Starting off with Gmail, today's business version of G Suite is very robust and has become an integral cog of corporate machinery. Since email is the primary mode of communication with clients, partners, and providers, ensuring its security is the need of the hour.

Sending emails should be a simple task for users, but from an administration point of view, there are many things to do and maintain in order to keep emails that are coming and going safe and without problems.

Sending and reading emails should be easy and intuitive, and, as a G Suite administrator, one of your duties is to ensure that things are fine-tuned to your organization's particular needs. Gmail for Business offers several options that allow you to do that. In this chapter, we will explore all the different settings so that you can choose the correct combination for your team.

To get you ready for your Gmail duties as a G Suite administrator, in this chapter, you will learn the following topics:

• How to configure Gmail for Business
• Allowing other users within the team to access your account
• Controlling spam
• Identifying and setting up security features and standards in G Suite
• Integrating with Microsoft Outlook
• How to send email to groups of users

In the upcoming pages we will explore the main G Suite configurations as we find them on Admin Home. Let's begin our quest of understanding Gmail for Business from the G Suite administrator's point of view.