3.3 Enabling Access to Google Apps

In order for the driver to interact with your domain, the following steps are required:

3.3.1 Enabling the Google Provisioning API Access

The driver provisions users into Google Apps for Business or Google Apps for Education services. However, it is necessary to enable the Google Provisioning API of your Google Apps subscription before the driver can interoperate with Google Apps.

To enable Google’s API access:

  1. Using a Web browser, log into the Google Apps Administration Console, typically found at http://www.google.com/a/yourdomainname, where yourdomainname is the Google Apps domain for your subscription.

    For example, if your Google Apps accounts use the format username@mydomain.com, then your domain name is mydomain.com.

  2. On the Dashboard, select Domain Settings.

  3. On the Domain Settings management page, select User Settings.

  4. Scroll down the Settings page and select the box labeled Enable Provisioning API.

  5. Save the settings by clicking the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page.

You can confirm that the API has been enabled by clicking the Organizations and Users button at the top of the management console.

This enables the Provisioning API interface for your Google Apps subscription. This interface provides the access methods that the driver uses to provision and manage users and groups in Google Apps.

3.3.2 Creating a Google Administrative Account

In order for the Google Driver to access the Google Domain and perform administrative functions such as creating users, the driver must log in to the domain through a Google account with Administrative privileges.

To access the Google domain:

  1. Using a Web browser, log into the Google Apps Administration Console, typically found at http://www.google.com/a/yourdomainname, where yourdomainname is the Google Apps domain for your subscription.

    For example, if your Google Apps accounts use the format username@mydomain.com, then your domain name is mydomain.com.

  2. On the Dashboard, select Organization & Users.

  3. Click the Create a New User button.

  4. Specify a first name, last name, and e-mail address.

  5. Click the Set Password link and set the password you want to user for the driver ID.

  6. Click Create new user.

  7. Find your new Driver ID in the list of users and select it.

  8. Click the Privileges tab, select the Administrator Privileges box, then click Save Changes.

  9. Log out of the Google console and log back in using the new driver ID.

  10. Accept the Google Terms of Service.

The driver can now use this ID to manage the Google domain.