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How do I recover a deleted user in Google Workspace?

To recover a deleted user in Google Workspace, you must be a Google Workspace administrator. Here are the steps to recover a deleted user:

  1. Sign in to your Google Workspace admin account at admin.google.com.
  2. Click on "Users" from the dashboard.
  3. Click on "Add +" button in the top right corner of the page.
  4. Select "User" from the dropdown menu.
  5. In the "Add new user" form, enter the user's first and last name, and their former email address.
  6. Click on the "Show more" link to expand the form.
  7. In the "Recovery email" field, enter an email address that you have access to.
  8. Set a new password for the user in the "Password" field.
  9. Click on the "Create" button at the bottom of the form.
  10. Google Workspace will send a recovery email to the email address you specified in step.
  11. Follow the instructions in the email to recover the user's data.

Note that you can only recover a deleted user if their data has not yet been permanently deleted from Google Workspace. If it has been more than 20 days since the user was deleted, their data will be permanently deleted and cannot be recovered.

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