Need to remove aliases all at once using GAM

[Jestony Mirarza]

Hi all!

I have been introduced to this GAM tool and seems to be very effective for my concern. The problem is, i am not tech savvy enough to run the tool.

Can you help me create an automatic script like a batch file?

I have more than 300 users in my G Suite account and my users created tons of email aliases for their accounts. I want to remove these aliases in bulk. Can someone help me?

Many thanks!

[Ross Scroggs]

Jestony,

This is basically what you what but you should apply some careful thinking before doing this.

gam print aliases > AllAliases.csv

AllAliases.csv will have the headers: Alias,Target,TargetType

TargetType will be User or Group

If you want to delete all aliases (think carefully) do:

gam csv AllAliases.csv gam delete alias ~Alias ~TargetType ~Target

If you're only trying to delete User aliases, edit AllAliases.csv, delete all lines that have TargetType = Group, save that file as UserAliases.csv.

If you want to preserve some user aliases, delete them from UserAliases.csv

gam csv UserAliases.csv gam delete alias ~Alias ~TargetType ~Target

If you want to get rid of some group aliases, edit AllAliases.csv, delete all lines that have TargetType = User, save that file as GroupAliases.csv.

If you want to preserve some group aliases, delete them from GroupAliases.csv

gam csv GroupAliases.csv gam delete alias ~Alias ~TargetType ~Target

Ross

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[Steve Larsen]

Ross - I kept getting errors when I attempted the following which I thought was correct based on that format

gam select my-domain csv gsheet st...@domain.com <sheet-id> "domain.com - Aliases" gam delete alias ~Alias ~TargetType ~Target

ERROR: Extra arguments
Help: Syntax in file /home/steve/bin/gamadv-xtd3/GamCommands.txt
Help: Documentation is at https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3/wiki
Command: gam select my-domain delete alias user@temp.domain.com >>>user user@domain.com<<<

Then I updated that to be the following and it worked
gam select my-domain csv gsheet st...@domain.com <sheet-id> "domain.com - Aliases" gam delete alias ~TargetType ~Alias 

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[Ross Scroggs]

Steve,

See: https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3/wiki/Aliases#delete-an-alias-regardless-of-the-target

This is correct as per above:

gam select my-domain csv gsheet st...@domain.com <sheet-id> "domain.com - Aliases" gam delete alias ~TargetType ~Alias

See: https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3/wiki/Aliases#remove-aliases-from-a-specified-target

This will work if you change delete to remove

gam select my-domain csv gsheet st...@domain.com <sheet-id> "domain.com - Aliases" gam removee alias ~Alias ~TargetType ~Target

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