How to setup a G Suite subscription to use both server-side and client-side signatures – Exclaimer Cloud Knowledge Base

Relevant Product: Exclaimer Cloud - Signatures for G Suite

This article guides you through the process of configuring your Exclaimer Cloud subscription, for BOTH server-side and client-side deployment.

Notes: For alternative configuration options, see Setup Overview for G Suite.

Running the setup wizard

To complete the setup described below, you will need:
G Suite Super Admin credentials

The Setup wizard will walk you through the steps required to grant permission for Exclaimer Cloud to:

Synchronize data from your Google Directory to an Exclaimer Cloud Signatures database (so it can be applied to your signatures).
Configure G Suite email routing (routing messages via Exclaimer Cloud) so signatures can be applied.
Synchronize signatures to your users' Gmail.

To run the setup wizard, follow the steps below:

Once you have set up your subscription and launched Exclaimer Cloud, you can choose to Connect to your email system or Try the Signature Designer:

Note: Even if you select Try the Signature Designer option, the Connect to your email system option will always be available when you launch the product.
Select Connect to your email system then click Next to choose the features that you wish to configure.
Select Apply to email from all devices and see before you send in Gmail:
Click Next to view a summary of tasks that will be completed during this setup:
Click Next to choose an account with Super Admin permissions for your G Suite account:
Once you have selected the account, you are prompted to grant access to Exclaimer Cloud to access your Google account:
Click Allow to grant permission and verify the installation.

The wizard will now check for an existing installation of the Exclaimer Cloud G Suite application:

Having confirmed that the application has not already been installed, Exclaimer Cloud will require you to complete the application installation.
You are now prompted to Integrate with Google, to allow Exclaimer Cloud to read data from your Google Directory and update users' signatures in Gmail. Click Integrate with Google:
The install screen for Exclaimer G Suite is displayed. Click Install:
Click Admin Install to continue:

The Domain wide install window is displayed:

Warning: It may take up to 24 hours for this app to be installed for your entire Google Workspace domain or organizational unit.
Click CONTINUE to grant permission for the Exclaimer G Suite app to be installed.

A summary of access requirements is displayed.
Select for whom you wish to automatically install the app:

- Everyone at your organization
or
- Certain groups or organizational units
Select the consent for the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy at the bottom of this page.
Click FINISH to proceed.

A window is displayed with the message that Exclaimer G Suite has been installed:
Click DONE to close the window.
Go back to the G Suite setup wizard and click Next:

Exclaimer Cloud will now check the installation of the Exclaimer G Suite application:
The next page of the wizard contains Host and IP address information that needs to be configured in the Google Workspace Admin Console:

Note: You can access the Google Workspace Admin console from here: https://admin.google.com
Follow the instructions to complete the required configuration in the Google Workspace Admin Console, then return to the wizard and continue with the steps outlined below.
Once the required setup has been completed in the Google Workspace Admin Console, select I have completed the setup in G Suite checkbox then click Next to synchronize the data:

When the data synchronization is complete, a confirmation is displayed:
Click Next to complete the wizard and create your first signature:
Once you have created your signature, you can choose to define Signature rules in order to determine if a signature should be applied server-side and/or client-side.