Renaming and moving of users to a new sub-domain

[Limoke Oscar Mahagayu]

Hi,

I am working on a way move users from one  domain to another sub-domain. 

I am trying to find the implementation of this in GAM . The Google Apps Support has a nice way to do it HERE. Could you please let me know of any way to do it in bulk via GAM or otherwise?

I have used the myweb.org as the main organization domain and the gam.myweb.org as the sub-organization domain. 

Regards,

Limoke Oscar,

[Jay Lee]

Hi Limoke,

  The command is documented at:

http://code.google.com/p/google-apps-manager/wiki/ExamplesProvisioning#Update_(and_Rename)_a_User

a basic example would be:

gam update user lim...@myweb.org username lim...@gam.myweb.org

there are a number of ways to do this in bulk that all pretty much come down to using a shell to re-run gam multiple times for each rename. One of the easiest ways is to just use a text editor to create a batch or shell script file that has all the gam commands listed out explicitly:

gam update user us...@myweb.org username us...@gam.myweb.org

gam update user us...@myweb.org username us...@gam.myweb.org

gam update user us...@myweb.org username us...@gam.myweb.org

gam update user us...@myweb.org username us...@gam.myweb.org

...

the Wiki also documents how to use a Powershell script and a CSV to loop through the CSV and apply the changes. If you're using Linux or Mac OS, there are also ways to use a shell script to loop through a CSV for them.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Jay Lee
LCS Deployment Lead  | Dito
(267) 712-9533
j...@ditoweb.com

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[Limoke Oscar]

Hi Jay,

Thank you so much. Am using a mac and was hoping I do it all via a CSV file . I.e. having all users in myweb.org in a CSV file that I would like to rename/move to gam.myweb.org. 

Thanks,

[Sean Daly]

I am also attempting to do this through a batch script, so I have a .csv with firstname, lastname, username (which is firstname.lastname) but there is no way I'm typing user...@myco.com for a thousand users.  Is there a way to put that into a script like:  $(entry.username)'@myco.com' ?  (Obviously that doesn't work, but I know nothing about splatting or Powershell scripting.)

[Meshack Musangi]

Hi Jay,

the best way to add the @myco.com part to all your users at once is to use the concatenate function in excel then save the file as a CSV when done. Using the Concatenate function is pretty easy, just google it.

[Brandon U.]

@Sean, I am using Powershell for my creation of accounts, maybe it can help you with your issue.

Param(
    [parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
    [alias("f")]
    $file)

Set-Alias -Name gam -Value c:\Usher\gam\gam.exe -Description "Google-Apps-Manager Alias" -Force

$list = Import-Csv $file
foreach($entry in $list) {
    gam create user "$($entry.username)@myco.com" firstname "$($entry.firstname)" lastname "$($entry.lastname)" password "$($entry.password)" changepassword off agreedtoterms on org "$($entry.org)"
  }

The CSV has a header of:

username, firstname, lastname, password, org

If you don't want to separate people into different orgs, just remove that part from the command and leave the CSV fields blank.

If you want to do aliases:

Param(
    [parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
    [alias("f")]
    $file)

Set-Alias -Name gam -Value c:\Usher\gam\gam.exe -Description "Google-Apps-Manager Alias" -Force

$list = Import-Csv $file
foreach($entry in $list) {
    gam create alias "$($entry.username)@myco.com" user "$($entry.username)@oldco.com"
  }