You can use the Google Workspace Domain Transfer glossary to learn more about frequently used terms or concepts. To find terms on this page press Ctrl + F on PC (or Command + F on Mac).
- Calendar resource—A resource people share. Examples include a meeting room, projectors, company fleet cars, guest offices, recreation equipment, or any other resource people might schedule a time to use. Learn more
- Child organizational unit—A child organizational unit inherits settings from its organizational unit.
- Destination environment—The environment you’re transferring entities to.
- Destination user—Users that exist in the destination environment.
- Dry run—A dry run (or a practice run ) is a test to validate all environment settings and preconditions, such as license checks, for a transfer. Unsuccessful settings and preconditions must be remedied before a production transfer.
- Feature—The equipment or feature attached to a calendar resource. Examples include rooms with video conferencing equipment or whiteboards. Learn more
- Google Admin console—The Admin console is a single place where administrators manage Google Workspace services for people in an organization. It can be used to create users, manage billing, and set up mobile devices. Learn more
- Google Workspace Domain Transfer team—A team within Google Cloud Professional Services dedicated to making sure your domain transfer runs smoothly.
- Placeholder admin—The super admin user created during the pre-transfer process to maintain access to the source environment.
- Placeholder domain—The domain name added to the source environment and promoted as the new primary domain. It replaces the original primary domain in the source environment. It’s the only domain left in the source environment after the transfer process completes.
- Primary domain—The original domain in the source environment. It’s the domain you most likely want to transfer to the destination environment.
- Secondary domain—Eligible domains (and their associated aliases) in the source environment that are eligible for transfer. Also known as transfer domains.
- Source environment—The environment you’re transferring entities from.
- Transfer domain—Eligible domains (and their associated aliases) in the source environment that are eligible for transfer. Also known as secondary domains.
- Transfer entities—Supported entities associated with transfer domains that are moved as a part of the transfer process. These include users, groups, mail, shared drives, calendar resources, etc.
- Transfer organizational unit—All the organizational units moved from the source environment. They’re placed under the transfer root organizational unit.
- Transfer root organizational unit—The destination environment where the transfer users move to. After the transfer, all transfer users are under the transfer root organizational unit.
- Transfer user—The original users in the source environment. They’re migrated to the transfer root organizational unit in the destination environment.
