Retroactively Restricting Viewing Permissions for Groups

[Derrek Beeck]

Hello,

I am working on cleaning up my organization's Google groups. One of the things we recently did was change the "Default for permission to view conversations" to be "All group members" so that only members of a group can see the conversations in a group (I know this only changes the default and still allows users to create groups that are visible to everyone in the organization). The issue is that that only helps for groups created in the future. Is there a way with GAM to change the setting for all groups in the the section that is "Who can view converstations" to only be "Group members"?

[Ross Scroggs]

See: https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM/wiki/Groups#gui-api-group-settings-mapping

This shows GUI and API naming differences.

Get a list of groups.

gam redirect csv ./Groups.csv print groups 

Edit Groups.csv, delete any rows for groups that are Not to be updated.

Update groups.

gam redirect stdout ./UpdateGroups.txt multiprocess redirect stderr stdout csv Groups.csv gam update group "~email" whocanviewgroup allmemberscanview

Ross

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On Sep 8, 2026, at 12:37 PM, 'Derrek Beeck' via GAM for Google Workspace <google-ap...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hello,

I am working on cleaning up my organization's Google groups. One of the things we recently did was change the "Default for permission to view conversations" to be "All group members" so that only members of a group can see the conversations in a group (I know this only changes the default and still allows users to create groups that are visible to everyone in the organization). The issue is that that only helps for groups created in the future. Is there a way with GAM to change the setting for all groups in the the section that is "Who can view converstations" to only be "Group members"?

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[Marshall Giguere]

Derrek;

You might want to include the fields option to save the whoCanViewGroup state of each of the groups just in case something goes sideways.

> gam redirect csv ./Groups.csv print groups fields whoCanViewGroup

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[Derrek Beeck]

Thank you. I'm going to work on this a bit and get back to once I do some testing. 

[Derrek Beeck]

That worked properly. Thank you both for your help.