Google Workspace is starting a rollout today that makes secondary calendars subject to deletion or suspension alongside the accounts that own them. For non-personal Workspace accounts, deleting a user account will also delete that user's secondary calendars, while suspending the user will suspend those calendars.
Preserving a secondary calendar requires transferring it to another user before its original owner's account is deleted or suspended. Secondary calendars will therefore receive the same treatment as primary calendars when their owner's account is deleted or suspended.
Administrators can change secondary calendar ownership through the admin console or the Calendar API. Users can also transfer secondary calendars they own through Calendar Settings. Google says tying each secondary calendar to a valid owner strengthens organizational data governance, with that owner determining which organizational settings and policies apply to its data.
The rollout begins today for both Rapid Release domains and Scheduled Release domains, and feature visibility could take longer than 15 days. Availability covers every Google Workspace customer as well as Workspace Individual subscribers, although Google describes the lifecycle changes as applying to non-personal Workspace accounts.
