Transfer ownership of shared calendar

[alexgrutza]

I thought there was a way a Super Admin could see all users Calendars and change settings, or am I mistaken?

I was asked to transfer ownership of a users shared calendar (not the particular users actual calendar, something like "Our dept event calendar"). I was able to do it via GAM with some wiki reading, but I thought there used to be a way for the SA to be able to see all users calendars and change settings/ownerships... Or am I mistaken and the only way is to use GAM? 

The transfer tool in Google Admin is not relevant (as far as I could tell) because that just transfer events.

The original owner of this calendar is still at our Org. just not in a position to be the owner of the calendar, and for whatever reason the new owner did not want to ask the original owner for them to transfer the ownership...(separate conversation I guess...)

[Kim_Nilsson]

Secondary calendars only LISTABLE via API.

GAMADV-XTD3 is your friend. 🙂

[Kim_Nilsson]

All calendars are manageable by the superadmin in the Google Calendar interface.

Only Resources (not actually their calendars) are manageable in the admin console.

[alexgrutza]

"All calendars are manageable by the superadmin in the Google Calendar interface."

I tried searching the calendar name and the calendar "address"/calendarid (found via GAM) as the SA, and was not able to find it. Is that because it's a secondary calendar, which is only viewable via API?

If so that's a shame on Google's decision 😐

[Kim_Nilsson · Accepted solution]

I just created a fresh secondary calendar on one of my test users.

gam user testuser print calendars summary

So I could see it was created and it's calendarId.

Copied the calendarId, and could immediately subscribe to it with my superadmin user.

Subscribing to a calendar gives you/superadmin full access to it.

[alexgrutza]

Strange that in my situation I was not able to subscribe to the secondary calendar for the request I received. Any setting in the Admin dashboard that would limit that?

[alexgrutza]

Well maybe it was late in the evening, because now I can subscribe with the calendarid... Anyways, I could subscribe as myself, then I can change permissions on the calendar. 

I think one or more of your comments answered my issue. Thanks!