Moving user from one subdomain to another subdomain

[Pete Wightman]

Hello all

Let's call the root domain acme.com. This domain has two subdomains,
old and new.

My question is this:

If pe...@old.acme.com is moved to pe...@new.acme.com using GAM, will the
contents of the Apps account that was pe...@old.acme.com be available
to pe...@new.acme.com?

[Jay Lee]

Hi Pete,

Technically, it's not a transfer at all, it's a rename of the account. All of the user's mail, calendar, contacts and other Google data will still be there. The only loss I'm aware of is that it resets Google Talk invitations so people will have to request the right to chat with the new account (or vice versa). See Google's description of account renames here:

http://code.google.com/googleapps/domain/gdata_provisioning_api_v2.0_developers_protocol.html#Renaming_a_User_Account

http://code.google.com/googleapps/domain/gdata_provisioning_api_v2.0_developers_protocol.html#Renaming_a_User_Account

Jay

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[Pete Wightman]

Thank you Jay - this confirms what I thought.

Pete

On Nov 2, 1:38 pm, Jay Lee <jay0...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Pete,
>
> Technically, it's not a transfer at all, it's a rename of the account. All
> of the user's mail, calendar, contacts and other Google data will still be
> there. The only loss I'm aware of is that it resets Google Talk invitations
> so people will have to request the right to chat with the new account (or
> vice versa). See Google's description of account renames here:
>

> http://code.google.com/googleapps/domain/gdata_provisioning_api_v2.0_...
>
> http://code.google.com/googleapps/domain/gdata_provisioning_api_v2.0_...

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> Jay
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> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Pete Wightman <p...@zumzum.biz> wrote:
> > Hello all
>
> > Let's call the root domain acme.com.  This domain has two subdomains,
> > old and new.
>
> > My question is this:
>

> > If p...@old.acme.com is moved to p...@new.acme.com using GAM, will the
> > contents of the Apps account that was p...@old.acme.com be available
> > to p...@new.acme.com?

[Pete Wightman]

This all looks good, but is there a sensible way to handle +-6000 of
these at once, somehow piping in a .csv file or two with lists of old/
new addresses?

Pete

On Nov 2, 1:38 pm, Jay Lee <jay0...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Pete,
>
> Technically, it's not a transfer at all, it's a rename of the account. All
> of the user's mail, calendar, contacts and other Google data will still be
> there. The only loss I'm aware of is that it resets Google Talk invitations
> so people will have to request the right to chat with the new account (or
> vice versa). See Google's description of account renames here:
>

> http://code.google.com/googleapps/domain/gdata_provisioning_api_v2.0_...
>
> http://code.google.com/googleapps/domain/gdata_provisioning_api_v2.0_...

>
> Jay
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> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Pete Wightman <p...@zumzum.biz> wrote:
> > Hello all
>
> > Let's call the root domain acme.com.  This domain has two subdomains,
> > old and new.
>
> > My question is this:
>

> > If p...@old.acme.com is moved to p...@new.acme.com using GAM, will the
> > contents of the Apps account that was p...@old.acme.com be available
> > to p...@new.acme.com?
>

[Jay Lee]

So it sounds like you're moving an entire domain of users (or significant portion of) into a subdomain. A few things:

1) Be careful not to move any/all Google Apps admin accounts. If you move an admin out of the primary domain, he won't be able to access the CPanel any longer. If you move all admins out of the primary domain, you'll be completely locked out of your CPanel and will need to do domain verification to reclaim.

2) There's a few ways you could handle the bulk commands. You could use a text editor, open the CSV and modify it to be a long list of the GAM commands, replacing the start of a line with "gam update user " and the comma with " username ". You could also just use Powershell to bulk run the commands.

Jay