G Suite Setup Guide

A Complete step by step video guide for G Suite setup with your domain following Google’s recommended best practices.

Author – Goldy Arora – G Suite Certified Consultant

1. Purchase Domain

We will begin our G Suite setup by purchasing a domain from Godaddy which we'll be then registering with G Suite.
Though I assume you already have a domain, and if thats the case, simply move to the next step below.
But just in case if you haven't purchased your domain yet, click on the video button below to see the step by step tutorial.

2. G Suite Registeration

3. Domain Verification

Google will only allow us to use its G Suite email and collaboration services after we verify that we own the registered domain.
Google does it avoid abuse of its system, and to ensure only proven domain owners can do G Suite setup and use provided services.
In this video, I'll show you how to verify your domain ownership to Google in an easy way.

4. Create Users & Groups

Before we set up our emails to start coming to Gmail, we first need to create all the required users & groups in G Suite.
There are multiple methods to create users in G Suite such as manually, in bulk via csv, directory sync, API etc.
In this video, I'll show you how to create users manually (one by one) and in bulk via uploading csv file.

5. Email Setup

To let our emails start landing into our newly created Gmail boxes, we need to either create OR change MX Records.
MX Record is a DNS record which contains the address/es of your email servers (in our case Google mail servers).
In this step by step video, I'll show you how to create G Suite MX Records in your DNS.

6. SPF Record Setup

SPF Record stands for "Senders Policy Framework", where you authorize certain mail servers to send emails on behalf of your domain.
This is optional, but highly recommended as per Google's best recommended practices.
In this step by step video, I'll show you how to easily create G Suite SPF Records in your DNS.

7. G Suite DKIM Setup

DKIM stands for "Domain Key Identified Mail", and Google highly recommends to set this up to make your G Suite Setup secure.
DKIM Setup provides an option to your recipients to figure out whether you sent a specific email or someone is pretending to be you.
In this step by step video, I'll show you how to easily setup G Suite DKIM with your godaddy domain.

8. Brand G Suite as Yours

9. TimeZone & Language

Provide rich experience to your G Suite users right from their first login by setting up default language and timezone
Your users can change this setting based on their requirement or preference right from their Gmail and Calendar settings.
In this video, You will learn how to set default language and timezone in G Suite

10. Brand Access URLs