Using GAM to Automate User Data Archive

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xpkiro

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Aug 17, 2021, 12:59:36 PM8/17/21

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I had a script I used to run for Office365 environments that would archive the user's account and mailbox such that their mailbox was converted to a shared mailbox and archived.

Does GAM have the capability of doing something similar? i.e. archiving the user's data and mailbox?

Brian Kim

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Aug 17, 2021, 4:34:44 PM8/17/21

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While Got Your Back exists, it's a two-step process using Gmail API (back up and restore, and restore process takes a LONG time due to per-user API limit, though Google recently made some changes). There is nothing in the API that will let you convert a mailbox to a Shared mailbox.

As for Drive content, you can transfer the ownership using GAM (Data Transfer API)