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Google Apps Password Recovery

You can manage your Google Apps users and account settings at www.google.com/a/YOURDOMAIN.com

We often get calls about forgotten admin/management passwords. The regular methods of recovering this password involves answering lots of questions, starting from https://www.google.com/accounts/recovery/

However, if you have control of the DNS entries of the primary domain name, this recovery process is much simpler; though not linked from Google's Account Recovery page. The link to this DNS recovery method is  https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/DOMAIN.COM/VerifyAdminAccountPasswordReset

The process is fairly straightforward:
  1. Enter the email address to which you want Google to send the password reset instructions.
  2. Click Continue with domain verification.
  3. Complete the steps described on the page that appears to create a CNAME record.
  4. Click I've completed the steps above, continue.
  5. Please allow up to 48 hours for Google to verify the CNAME changes and send the password reset instructions to the email address you entered at step 2.
  6. Sign in to that email address, open the message with the subject line Google Password Assistance, and follow the link that appears in the message.
  7. The link takes you to a page where you can select which administrator account to reset the password for and enter the new password.
  8. If you don't find the message in the Inbox, check the Spam and Trash folders to ensure that your provider hasn't filtered the message.