mass deleting user accounts with GAM
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skeeler
Dec 9, 2010, 3:19:16 PM12/9/10
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Hi all,
I have a need to delete about 700 user accounts but I will need to
recreate them again (test environment). I know the syntax to delete
one user: gam delete user xyz
All my user accounts start with the number 15 (example: 15smithr) is
there a way to mass execute the delete command other that creating a
batch file and repeating the command string for each user name.
Thanks
S.Keeler
I have a need to delete about 700 user accounts but I will need to
recreate them again (test environment). I know the syntax to delete
one user: gam delete user xyz
All my user accounts start with the number 15 (example: 15smithr) is
there a way to mass execute the delete command other that creating a
batch file and repeating the command string for each user name.
Thanks
S.Keeler
Oliver Hartley
Dec 9, 2010, 3:26:54 PM12/9/10
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yes
this is what i do....
i create a csv file in excel or google spreadsheets with the 700 lines
once i'm done i open a cmd
gam info domain
put the credencials
when done
copy the 700 lines and paste it on the cmd
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Jay Lee
Dec 9, 2010, 3:29:56 PM12/9/10
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What Oliver said but you can also use:
gam print users
to get a list of all users in the domain. Then clean that up in Excel.
Jay
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tsihh
Dec 9, 2010, 3:38:34 PM12/9/10
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I would mix it a little different way. First part i would do like Jay
wrote
On Dec 9, 9:29 pm, Jay Lee <j...@pbu.edu> wrote:
> gam print users
>
> to get a list of all users in the domain. Then clean that up in Excel.
One note though, i would use .txt not .csv extension
Next i would use find-replace feature to generate a full command to
each line. Smth like this:
c:\<address_to_your_gam_directory\gam.exe delete user xyz
Now the only things left to do is to rename the txt extension to bat/
cmd and execute it
Rgds,
Ahti
wrote
On Dec 9, 9:29 pm, Jay Lee <j...@pbu.edu> wrote:
> gam print users
>
> to get a list of all users in the domain. Then clean that up in Excel.
Next i would use find-replace feature to generate a full command to
each line. Smth like this:
c:\<address_to_your_gam_directory\gam.exe delete user xyz
Now the only things left to do is to rename the txt extension to bat/
cmd and execute it
Rgds,
Ahti
chrisj
Dec 11, 2010, 11:14:32 PM12/11/10
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Check out the Windows PowerShell scripting capabilities for looping
too. You can loop through the list of email addresses in the csv
file.
There is a useful example here: http://code.google.com/p/google-apps-manager/wiki/BulkOperations
too. You can loop through the list of email addresses in the csv
file.
There is a useful example here: http://code.google.com/p/google-apps-manager/wiki/BulkOperations
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