Move, rename, or delete an organizational unit

1. Move shared drives to other organizational units. You need to move all shared drives out of the organizational unit you want to delete, and out of any of its child organizational unit so you can delete those, too.
2. (Optional but recommended) Review your shared drive creation settings and make sure that the organizational unit (and any child organizational units) you want to delete isn’t set as the default location for new shared drives. Otherwise, users won’t be able to create shared drives. However, you can still delete an organizational unit if it is set as a default location. Learn how to update shared drive creation settings

1. Follow the steps on this page to Access the organizational tree.
2. Click More Delete.
3. Repeat as needed for multiple child organizational units.

Note: Deletion can take up to 48 hours. Learn more about How changes propagate to Google services.

For details on:

• Moving users from one unit to another—Go to Move users to an organizational unit.
• Deleting one or more users—Read Delete or remove a user from your organization.

Note: Deletion can take up to 48 hours. Learn more about How changes propagate to Google services.

If you get the error: "This organization can’t be deleted if it has child organizations, users, or devices", you might need to move or deprovision Chrome devices in the organizational unit. 

If needed, remove Google Meet hardware devices or Jamboard devices, and cloud-managed Chrome browsersfrom the organizational unit. (Mobile devices and endpoints are not connected to organizational units.)

Move or deprovision Chrome devices

To complete these steps, you need the appropriate administrator privileges. Depending on your privileges, you might not see all the controls needed to complete these steps. Learn more about administrator privileges.

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

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

2. From the Admin console Home page, go to  Menu  DevicesChromeDevices.
3. Select the organizational unit that you want to delete.

   By default, an organizational unit shows only provisioned devices.

   

4. Click StatusAllApply.

   

5. Check the box next to the devices you want to move or deprovision.
6. Choose an option:
   • To move devices, go to Move devices to another organizational unit .
   • To deprovision devices:
     1. Click Trash .
     2. Review the information, check the box to confirm that you understand the upgrade policy, deprovisioning steps, and enrollment stepsclick Deprovision.
7. Repeat these steps for any managed browsers and other devices in the organizational unit.