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So, I was excited to try out all the new features and toys Google graced the world with today, including the merging of Google Talk and Google Hangouts into one complete item called Hangouts.

So, as soon as it became available to iOS devices I downloaded and fired it up.  Easy enough so far.

Next step if to login of course.  So I begin putting my credentials in for one of my Google Apps credentials and was then met with an unpleasant  error stating the feature had not been enabled for my account and to contact my account administrator to essentially remedy the situation.

Well, I am the administrator so I log in to the Google Apps dashboard for this account.

Finding where to go to enable was not very clear so hopefully this helps.

Once logged into the dashboard of your Google Apps account you may see the below panel on the main dashboard page.

If not, then just navigate to the settings tab.

There you need to select Talk on the left.

You will have an option now to Enable Hangouts for messaging and video calls.

When you select this, this the previous Talk settings will be disabled (essentially disappear)

So select enable. 

Then you are greeted with all the warnings you need to understand.  Check off that you have read and acknowledge and continue will then become an option (otherwise just hit cancel to leave it but you will not be able to use hangouts at all in that organization)

That’s it, once you hit continue you are done and it is now enabled.  Log back into Google+ on your desktop or launch the new Hangouts app on Android or iOS and login.  You are all set.