Send Welcome Email in GAM

[droske]

Hello All,

Is there a way to send the welcome email to a external domain address? I usually create users one off with:

gam create user username firstname FirstName lastname LastName password Password changepassword on Org "/Yourorg/structure" 

Is there any way to add a "send welcome email" with credentials at the end of the cmd? Or even in another one?

Thanks!

[Nate Ferrell]

Within GAM and Google Apps itself, for that matter, I don't believe there is a way to send a Welcome Email outside of the normal Getting Started with Gmail message (If I'm wrong, someone correct me plz)

Depending on your provisioning process, however, you can automate sending of an email that you can customize using tools outside of GAM.

For example, I am running Windows and Powershell, so I would approach this issue by:

1. Create the users using GAM
2. After users were created, send each created user a Welcome email using the Send-MailMessage cmdlet

Hopefully this helps!

[Doug Roske]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Nate Ferrell <nathanie...@pnmac.com> wrote:

Send-MailMessage cmdlet

​Can you give me an example? Do you have to be using Outlook?​

Doug Roske 
Regional Device Manager - WA Region
Summit Public Schools
http://summitps.org/

[Nate Ferrell]

Sure, Doug.

Outlook is not needed, but you will need to know your SMTP server's address.

Here's a sample that will cover the basic requirements of this in Powershell. Just replace the To and From Addresses with actual emails for the user and your admin account, the SMTP server with your SMTP server address, and the Subject / Body with what you'd like.

Keep in mind, this is executed in Powershell (installed on anything Windows 7 or greater)

$MailParams = @{

    To = "New User's Name<user.email@yourdomain.com>"

    From = "Google Admin<google...@yourdomain.com>"

    SmtpServer = "smtp.yourdomain.com"

    Subject = "Welcome to Your New Google Apps Mail Account"

    }

$MailParams.body = "Hello,

We are excited to have you! Please reach out to our Help Desk with any questions you may have.

We look forward to working with you!

- Domain Admin

"

Send-MailMessage @MailParams

Thank you for your time,

Nate Ferrell

Systems Engineer | Google Apps Certified Administrator

x5120 | 817.494.0332

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[Michael Rother]

Hi,

On Friday, February 26, 2016 at 1:53:31 AM UTC+1, Nate Ferrell wrote:

Within GAM and Google Apps itself, for that matter, I don't believe there is a way to send a Welcome Email outside of the normal Getting Started with Gmail message (If I'm wrong, someone correct me plz)

Well, in the Webadmin of GSuite, you can in fact specify an email address to send the welcome Mail to, so the question by the OP seems valid, if GAM can access that via the API and automatically mail out the changepassword Link that mail includes ... (and maybe also set the "send a copy to myself" field of that dialog?)

Regards,

Michael Rother 

[+KimNilsson]

GAMADV-X has a notify option.

https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-X/wiki/Users#create-a--user

[Michael Rother]

Cool, thanks :)

[droske]

Does GAMADV-X perform some or most of the functions or GAM? Also - are they complimentary install? - Meaning do they need to be side by side, or can they coexist?

Thanks, 

[Ross Scroggs]

GAMADV-X can completely replace GAM, it can run side-by-side while you test.

Ross

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[Doug Roske]

Thanks much Ross

Doug Roske 
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[Steve - DynTech]

Ross - I don't know why I didn't install GAMADV-X sooner. I just started using it last week, boy have I been missing out all these years.

[Doug Roske]

Here here! I just used it to automate sending welcome emails......

Doug Roske 
Summit Public Schools

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