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Identity Crisis
Derek Parham
(Former Tech Lead - Google Apps)
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Strategy
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- connecting and catalyzing the influencers and innovators
Highlights
- attended by more than 12,000 delegates since 2007
- held in 9 cities worldwide
4+ years
40+ teams
4 million organizations
40 million active accounts
April 2002
yourname@gmail.com
April 2004
yourname@your-domain.com
Gmail for your domain
● Administrator has full control
○ Create/delete accounts
○ Reset password
○ Access to control panel
○ Control what service their users can access
● End users log into multiple accounts
○ Personal jane234@gmail.com
○ Business jane@altostrat.com
○ Edu janew@school.edu
● Customized login page
Feb 2006
http://mail.google.com
http://mail.google.com/a/altostrat.com
Problem 1: Conflict accounts
Only an issue if we're successful...
...so a good problem to have!
Product launches
Consumer:
May 2005 iGoogle
Oct 2005 Google Reader
April 2006 Google Calendar
June 2006 Google Checkout
June 2006 Picasa
Sept 2006 Google Docs
Dec 2006 Blogger
Problem 2: Slow launches + Subset
Consumer:
May 2005 iGoogle
Oct 2005 Google Reader
April 2006 Google Calendar
June 2006 Google Checkout
June 2006 Picasa
Sept 2006 Google Docs
Dec 2006 Blogger
Apps:
Aug 2006 Google Calendar
Feb 2007 Google Docs
Problem 3: Sharing
Share with: jane@altostrat.com
Share with: jane@altostrat.com
What do we want?
● All Apps accounts access to all services
● Resolve conflict accounts
● Allow multi-login between accounts
● Admins can turn on/off every service
● Administrators control accounts @domain.com
Projects Required for Solution
● Get all Apps account to log into 1 login page
● Tool to help people resolve conflict accounts
● Allow multi-login in a standard way
● Create On/Off switch for every service (60+)
● Migration tool for Admins
Single Login page
http://mail.google.com/a/altostrat.com http://mail.google.com
Single Login page - SAML
Single Login page
Resolve Conflict Accounts
Login with: jane@altostrat.com
Resolve Conflict Accounts
Multi Login
Multi Login
Multi Login
Multi Login
On/Off Switch for Every Service
Administrator: "Who the hell is that?"
Migration tool for Admins
Migration tool for Admins
jane%altostrat.com@gtempaccount.com
Where's the Advil?
● Multi Login with SAML
● You can attach any email address to a gmail
address OR you can attach a gmail address
to any consumer account
● Users want to migrate data from conflict
accounts
● Migrating users while they're logged in
4+ years
40+ teams
4 million organizations
40 million active accounts
1 decision
Identity Crisis
Questions?
Background
feb 2006 - launch gmail
○ admin password reset, multi-login through domain in url
aug 2006 - launch calendar, talk, pages
feb 2007 - premier
june 2007 - first design docs
june 2008 - talks with L&S
oct 2008 - service code work started
march 2009 - first account moved over
dec 2009 - google.com moves over
june 2010 - beta launch
nov 18 2010 - public launch
Shadow accounts
Multi-login
Domain migrator - timeline
Email as id
Start of problem
● History
○ Service on the internet with email login
○ Want to offer different service to business users
● Decisions
○ Want to separate out admin ownership from
consumer ownership
History
Start with a consumer service
bob@gmail.com
Google Answers
Gmail
Add corporate functionality
annie@domain.com
has admin

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