Move users to an organizational unit

Each user in your Google Admin console belongs to an organizational unit that determines which features and services the user can access. By default, all users belong to your account's top-level organization. But you can move a user to a child organizational unit you create. The user can then access the features and services available to that child.

To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to Use groups to customize service access.

Move users

To complete these steps, you need the appropriate Organizational unit privilege. Without this privilege, you won't see all the controls needed to complete these steps.

  1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

    Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).

  2. In the Admin console, go to Menu and then Directoryand thenUsers.
  3. If necessary, click  at the upper left of the Users list to see the organizational tree.
  4. Click the organization the users are in now. Users who haven't been moved are in the top-level organization.

    Tip: If you're not sure which organization a user belongs to, go to the user's profile page, instead.

  5. (Skip this step if you went to the user's profile page.)
    • To move a single user, find the user in the Users list.Then check the box for the user.
    • To move multiple users, check the box for each user you want to move in the Users list.
    • To move users in bulk, at the top, click Bulk update usersand thendownload your usersand thenupdate column Org Unit path. Learn more
  6. At the top, click More and then Change organizational unit
  7. Choose the new organization from the dialog box, and then click Continue
  8. In the confirmation message, review the information about moving the users to a different organization.
  9. Click Change.

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