Update Member to Manager failing - "memberKey"

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wgpgear

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Nov 8, 2021, 2:12:58 PM11/8/21
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Hi all,
Trying to make a member of a group into a manager. This member is actually a group email address itself. I was able to add this group email to the larger group as a member using:

gam update group gr...@domain.com add member nomail user user...@domain.com

I am trying to update usergroup@ once added to be a manager of group@. Using Command:

gam update group gr...@domain.com update manager user nomail user...@domain.com

I receive this: 

Update to MANAGER Failed: Invalid Input: memberKey

When trying to originally add usergroup@ to group@ right away as a manager, I got the same error. Wondering what I can do to bulk add/update this group to be a manager. Weird that it would let me add it as a member, seeing as it's mostly the same syntax. Thanks for any help!

Ross Scroggs

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Nov 8, 2021, 2:25:05 PM11/8/21
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Groups can not be managers/owners of groups.

Ross

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wgpgear

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Nov 8, 2021, 4:00:03 PM11/8/21
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Best way to allow a group of users to manage membership of other groups? Adding the individual users manually as managers to all groups isn't feasible.

Maj Marshall Giguere

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Nov 8, 2021, 6:26:53 PM11/8/21
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As a suggestion, create a special role in the domain account, admin roles, say "Groups Admin" which has privileges to only manage groups.  I then grant that role to various users within the domain.
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