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Which Google Apps services are available to user is determined by which organizational unit the user belongs to. As the administrator, you can assign users to organizational units, and you specify which Google Apps services are available to users in each organizational unit.
By default, users with Gmail accounts at your domain can send mail to and receive mail from any other email address. In some cases, you want to restrict who your users can exchange mail with. For example, a school might want to allow its students to exchange mail with the faculty and other students, but not with people outside of the school.