One year ago, I completed the installation of the first and so far the only installation in Greece of Google Apps Education Edition for the private college, IEK Vergi in Patras. Around the world, over 5 million students in higher education are using Google Apps.
The installation was completed on the custom domain, vergis.edu.gr
At that point, the DNS settings of the Google Apps were done via a paid host.
However, ever since IEK Vergi invested and expanded its IT infrastructure by developing synchronous and asynchronous e-learning platforms and decided to move all its websites and ICT services to private, dedicated webservers.
As one the last steps was moving Google Apps to a new DNS provider. I couldn’t find anything similar to the internet, so I post the information here.
The process was done fearly easy in two steps.
First, the dns settings in the new provider were prepared. More specific, I replicated the related DNS records for Google Apps. These were 7 MX records for Gmail starting with
host: vergis.edu.gr
type: MX
record value: ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
MX value: 1
and 7 CNAME records for all major Google Apps services i.e.:
host: calendar.vergis.edu.gr
type: CNAME
value: ghs.google.com.
Second, the nameservers of the domain were change to point to the new DNS provider.
After a few hours, all services were running smoothly via the new DNS provider.
P.S.
Does anyone know why Google doesn’t offer Google Video in Greece?
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