Renaming of VFE accounts

[Adrian Yong]

Hi, May I know if I can bulk rename VFE accounts which I have in a former_employees sub org ?

Currently as per default I have 2 groups of users :

1. Migrated from Postini 

- Google renamed them as vfe.1.firstname.lastname ..... vfe.199.firstname.lastname

Is it possibe to bulk rename them to vfe.0001.firstname.lastname ...... vfe.0199.firstname.lastname ?

- adding "zero" so that they become running numbers ?

2. Recently suspended accounts

- Named as Firstname Lastname

Is it possible to bulk rename them to vfe.xxxx.firstname.lastname ?

I will change the number "xxxx" manually.

[Jay Lee]

First off, the naming scheme for VFE accounts is cosmetic, renaming an account to vfe.NNNN.username@ does not turn the user into VFE. Make sure you're actually applying the VFE license to suspended users.

For #1, yes, that's possible, just create a CSV file named renames.csv that looks like:

oldEmail,newEmail

vfe.1.jo...@example.com,vfe.001.j...@example.com

vfe.2.geo...@example.com,vfe.002.ge...@example.com

then you can simply run:

gam csv renames.csv gam update user ~oldEmail username ~newEmail

remember that renaming an account leaves the old name on the account as an alias so after it's done you probably want to run:

gam csv renames.csv gam delete alias ~oldEmail

to clean up the aliases.

The process for #2 should pretty much be the same.

Jay Lee

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