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Google Workspace / Gmail Considerations

The following considerations should be understood when migrating to or from Google Workspace or Gmail.

Google Workspace Authentication

To migrate bulk accounts to or from Google Workspace (formerly called G Suite), you will need to set up a Google Service Account. You will grant permission to a service account to access your Google Workspace data, allowing you to execute an efficient migration.

Follow these directions to create a Google Service Account:

• Create a Google Service Account

Single-user authentication

To migrate a single mailbox (or only a few mailboxes) without usage of a Service Account, you will need to use end-user credentials (email address and password) for each account you migrate.

• Migrate individual accounts with end-user authentication.

Migrate from Google Vault

If you are migrating data from Google Vault, follow these steps to modify your Google Service Account and enable Advanced Custom Options in Transend Migration Console.

• Migrate from Google Vault

Multi-party approval required for domain-wide delegation

Google added domain-wide delegation to the Multi-party approval feature, which requires one Super Admin to approve the actions of another. If Multi-party approval is enabled for your organization, editing scopes or deleting domain-wide delegation for a client app requires approval from another super admin.

• Set up domain-wide delegation

Snoozed messages

When migrating Snoozed messages between Google Workspace or Gmail accounts, by default all Snoozed messages will migrate into a folder named Snoozed Mail in the target mailbox.