As part of the U-M Google Storage Project, ITS has created a transfer tool to assist faculty, staff, and students with moving data from U-M Google Drive, Photos, and shared drives to U-M Dropbox. This document provides instructions for transferring your data using the tool to U-M Dropbox.
Google Support
Overview
With the Microsoft Teams Meeting add-on, you can use Microsoft Teams to easily schedule, join, and customize meetings from Google Calendar.
Important: Third-party apps may display advertisements, require additional terms of service agreements, have a separate privacy policy, or retain your information. For those reasons, add-ons/apps within the Google Workspace Marketplace are currently disabled for the University of Michigan domain, with a few exceptions, such as this one.
This document provides instructions for installing the "Zoom for Google Workspace" add-on, adding a Zoom meeting to a Google Calendar event, and customizing your meeting preferences.
Google Chat and Google Meet are replacements for classic Classic Google Hangouts. This document provides a chart that outlines how Google Chat and Meet compare to classic Google Hangouts.
Google Drive provides two locations for storing and collaborating on data: My Drive and shared drives. This document provides a table that outlines the key differences between U-M Google My Drive and shared drives.
Request a Mail Transfer
Overview
This document explains what steps to take before you leave the university and your access to your U-M Google account changes.
Group Calendars
Group calendars - for example, a departmental vacation calendar - are created and shared by the owner as secondary calendars.
Best practices
We recommend creating group calendars using a Google Shared Account instead of an individual account. Calendars owned by an individual's account are deleted when that person leaves the university and is no longer affiliated.
Warning:
You must contact the ITS Service Center to request a Discussion Group in the U-M Google domain. The Create Group button creates a Google Group outside of U-M Google that is not protected by our contract with Google.
Discussion Groups are not MCommunity groups, and there is no relationship between them.
Overview
Google resource calendars are calendars for things you typically reserve, such as conference rooms, parking passes, or other equipment. To create a resource calendar: