New Gmail features: Quick access to contact details, improved autocomplete and Google+ circle integrations

Here's the latest updates from the Google Apps community  - http://bit.ly/JSL1kJ

The following new features are now available to Google Apps domains:
- Quick access to contact details: When searching for an email address, the results will now show you contact details in addition to that person's profile photo and the emails sent from and to them. From here, you can start a chat, call their phone and more. Plus, if your contacts have a Google+ profile, this information will stay up to date automatically.
- More circle integration and circle search: Users on Google Plus will also now see profile photos of people in their selected circle and circles are now supported in search and filters.
- Improved autocomplete predictions based on the content in your email.

The Latest Scheduled Google Apps Updates

Posted: 15 May 2012 08:00 PM PDT

The following features are now available to domains following the Scheduled Release track:

- Sites: Keyboard shortcuts in Sites editor
- Docs: Migration of documents to the newer documents editor
- Drive: The rollout of the “opt-in” phase of Google Drive to scheduled track domains. The “opt-in” phase consists of the following:

• Users can visit drive.google.com where they can opt-in to Drive. 
• As part of opting in, they will be shown an interstitial which includes this video. 
• If an opted in user visits docs.google.com, the user will be redirected to drive.google.com. 
• The “Documents” navigation item will change to “Drive.” 

The following features are intended for release to these domains on May 22nd:

- Docs: Comments and discussions available to Government domains.
- Gmail: Graduation of three labs: Message translation, Smart Mute and Title Tweaks.

More on the New Email Archiving for Google Apps.

Google Apps Vault Brings Information Governance to Google Apps

Here's insightful information about the new Email archiving for Google Apps:

@Greg, @patto @Dean & @Argon0 - Google Apps Vault is a completely new archiving solution, built from the ground up and working natively with Apps. While there is some overlap with Postini/GMD functionality as they both archive email for the purposes of retention and eDiscovery, there are key differences including:

1) Google Apps Vault is built natively in Google Apps and provides a true manage-in-place capability

2) Vault can archive on-the-record chat messages

3) Vault plans to support additional data types in the future (stay tuned for more information). GMD only supports email.

4) There is no time limit on retention. GMD has a maximum retention period of 10 years 

5) Easy set-up through the Apps CPanel. GMD has a separate, non-integrated user interface

6) Vault supports archiving email and on-the-record chat messages in all languages that Google Apps supports. GMD does not support as many languages, particularly double-byte languages. 

7) Vault can leverage existing migration tools for Gmail which gives customers more flexibility and can lower costs.

8) Vault can be deployed “on-demand” and immediately begin applying information governance policies to the data that exists in your domain’s Gmail inboxes (legacy and newly created data). GMD starts capturing messages from the time that it is deployed and requires Historic Message Journaling to load historical email into the GMD archive.

@ el Baker - We are working to enable EDUs to purchase Google Apps Vault and expect to have it soon. Stay tuned...

@T Mullenaux - Currently, Google Apps Vault can only be used together with Google Apps.