How to delete/wipe contacts with a users

[Peter Roelant]

All,

Does anyone now how i can delete all contacts in a certain group with all users ?

Is this possible with GAM or any other means ?

Or simply not supported via the APIs

Tnx in advance,

Rgds,

Peter

[Jay Lee]

Hi Peter,

GAM does not have any commands that manage user contacts (or domain shared contacts for that matter). GAM tends to focus on Google Apps admin functionality rather than user data so it's unlikely I'll add such functionality anytime soon. However, it would be possible to do something like this with the Contacts API.

Jay

[Peter Roelant]

Jay,

Thanks for the update 

Rgds,

Peter

[Sandip Shah]

Hi Peter,

It's definitely possible with the Contacts API (and OAuth). I have
done it in the past using Python and PHP.

SS

[Lillian]

Sandip,

Can you provide more details on how you've done this? I've recently found myself being a domain admin for my organization and one aggravating thing that has happened is that a user (e.g. John Doe) has left the company and his email account (jdoe) has been deleted; years later, a new user (Jane Doe) has joined the company and I created her the username "jdoe" without realizing that it formerly belonged to someone else. Now for users who were here when John Doe worked here, Jane Doe's name shows up as John Doe in chat and in autocomplete.

The only solution I have found so far is to instruct all the other users to delete the John Doe entry from their Contacts, but is there a way that I can do it for the whole domain?

Thanks,

Lillian

[Charles M]

Did you ever find a solution for this?

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[John NGUYEN]

We too are very interested in the Python and/or PHP solution.

[James SEYMOUR]

Peter, you can use GAMADV-XTD to clear or delete contacts from users. At a simple level, you can use (see below) to clear a specific email address from users contacts. Clear will allow all the other data in the contact to remain. From what I understand, delete will remove the contact completely.

gam ou_and_children_ns <enter your top level OU here> clear contacts emailmatchpattern <enter contact email address to remove here>

Note, the syntax ou_and_children_ns will perform the gam command on all the active users (not suspended) in the top level OU you specify and in all the OU's under it.

For example I used this to clear the old Senior Management email address from all the contacts in the users in our Staff OU and sub-OUs.

James

[CleberS]

Hi all, 
Would it be possible to give a wipe to a user's contacts?

I tried with:

gam contacts <user> wipe

no success.

[Ross Scroggs]

This requires Advanced GAM (https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3)

gam redirect csv UserContacts.csv user us...@domain.com print contacts

gam redirect stdout - multiprocess csv UserContacts.csv gam user "~User" delete contact "~ContactID"

Ross

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[CleberS]

Thanks for your reply Ross.

Just to understand.

The first sentence is to list what you have in your contacts. and print in a Correct CSV?

"gam redirect csv UserContacts.csv user us...@domain.com print contacts " 

The second sentence is to take this CSV and delete correct?

"gam redirect stdout - multiprocess csv UserContacts.csv gam user "~User" delete contact "~ContactID""  

[Ross Scroggs]

Yes.

Step 1: collect the contacts

Step 2: delete the contacts

Ross

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