Google Workspace – useful GAM commands for calendar privacy

I just had a problem where Google Calendar’s default privacy setting was changed to “freeBusy” but didn’t replicate to all users. Looking into it, the privacy change is only applied if the user hasn’t changed their calendar’s default settings. It’s not clear what settings influence this. Anyway, we needed to use GAM to fix the…

GSUITE / Google Workspace – How to transform a user account into a group and keep all e-mails

Edit (15/02): Thanks to hjkimbrian for warning that there is no way to backup emails from a group. Do you have user accounts in your org that are “shared” between your employees?If you do, that’s a big no no. Account sharing is a horrible practice and is basically a ticking clock to some security incident…

GCP – How to automatically export backups (MySQL and instances) to other places (AWS, Offline, etc…)

GCP has a pretty good backup system which is really easy to configure. For instances, you can schedule automatic snapshots and also convert theses snapshots to images whenever you want.For MySQL databases (not sure about the other types) you can schedule backups which are stored in a neat “full backup + incremental backups” to save…