Not enough privileges for contacts migration in GWMME

When migrating from Exchange/Microsoft 365 to Google Workspace the GWMME tool is a very handy tool that does a lot of work for you.

After creating a project in the Google Cloud console you need to enable some API's:

But after completing the setup and giving domain wide delegation for this API's and the starting the migration the following error will popup:

Contacts migration: The Google Workspace Admin User configured does not have enough privileges. Google Workspace server has forbidden the requested operation on the specified resource. Please make sure the account is a super-administrator.

To resolve this you also need to enable the People API, this new API is replacing the old Contacts API.

Make sure that domain wide delegation is given for https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts.

After enabling and setting domain wide delegation wait 10 minutes before rerun the migration test and everything should work.

29-12-2025 EN google workspace migration contacts forbidden contacts api people api
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