Remove suspended users from all groups

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Unhappy Buckaroo

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Aug 16, 2018, 11:53:04 AM8/16/18
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Anyone know whether it's possible to remove users who are in a specific OU from all groups they belong to?

ie. When accounts are suspended for whatever reason, we move them to a "Suspended" OU, and then manually remove their group memberships. This works find during the year, but at year-end when there are dozens of staff accounts being suspended, it would be useful to have a command that would do this.

Alternatively, is there a way to search groups for members whose status is "suspended" and remove/clear those members?

Ross Scroggs

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Aug 16, 2018, 12:13:10 PM8/16/18
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The basic command is: gam ou /Suspended delete groups
In standard GAM this makes an API call per user per group.

In my Advanced GAM the API calls are batched and you may have to pace GAM.
gam config batch_size 10 inter_batch_wait 2 ou /Suspended delete groups

Ross

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Andrew Penner

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Sweet!
Much better than trying to run gam update group <gr...@domain.com> clear suspended for every group.

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On Thursday, August 16, 2018 at 9:13:10 AM UTC-7, Ross Scroggs wrote:

The basic command is: gam ou /Suspended delete groups
In standard GAM this makes an API call per user per group.

In my Advanced GAM the API calls are batched and you may have to pace GAM.
gam config batch_size 10 inter_batch_wait 2 ou /Suspended delete groups

Ross

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 8:53 AM Unhappy Buckaroo <andrew...@spschools.org> wrote:
Anyone know whether it's possible to remove users who are in a specific OU from all groups they belong to?

ie. When accounts are suspended for whatever reason, we move them to a "Suspended" OU, and then manually remove their group memberships. This works find during the year, but at year-end when there are dozens of staff accounts being suspended, it would be useful to have a command that would do this.

Alternatively, is there a way to search groups for members whose status is "suspended" and remove/clear those members?


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