Remove email delgation

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JasonW

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Aug 31, 2015, 12:38:49 PM8/31/15
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Hello All, 

I was wondering if anyone could help me out with removing a delegated email account?

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gam user <user1> delegate to <user2>

Not sure how to reverse this!   Also, if anyone knows of a detailed help file where I can see a complete list of commands and syntax that would be great. 

Thank You!

Jay Lee

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Aug 31, 2015, 12:41:10 PM8/31/15
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JasonW

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Aug 31, 2015, 12:42:29 PM8/31/15
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ahhh I didn't see that delete option.  Thanks friend!


On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 9:41:10 AM UTC-7, Jay Lee wrote:
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:38 PM JasonW <jwin...@gmiweb.com> wrote:
Hello All, 

I was wondering if anyone could help me out with removing a delegated email account?

to Delegate:  

gam user <user1> delegate to <user2>

Not sure how to reverse this!   Also, if anyone knows of a detailed help file where I can see a complete list of commands and syntax that would be great. 

Thank You!

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Noor Shimul

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Feb 20, 2019, 7:08:04 AM2/20/19
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User has delegate access to few accounts how do I remove all delegates at once using GAM rather then individually?

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Ross Scroggs

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Feb 20, 2019, 8:07:49 AM2/20/19
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Noor,

I need clarification as to what case you're describing.
Case 1 - delegator userx has multiple delegates: userx has delegates user1,user2,user3
gam user us...@domain.com print delegates | gam csv - gam user "~User" delete delegate "~delegateAddress"

Case 2 - multiple delegators have userx as a delegate: user1,user2,user3 all have delegate userx
This is much harder.

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Noor Shimul

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Feb 20, 2019, 10:24:19 AM2/20/19
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Ross, 

it would be user x has access to multiple mailbox i.e. user1, user2 and user 3's mailbox. How do I remove all at once? will this has to be done through csv?


Thanks,


On Wednesday, 20 February 2019 13:07:49 UTC, Ross Scroggs wrote:
Noor,

I need clarification as to what case you're describing.
Case 1 - delegator userx has multiple delegates: userx has delegates user1,user2,user3
gam user us...@domain.com print delegates | gam csv - gam user "~User" delete delegate "~delegateAddress"

Case 2 - multiple delegators have userx as a delegate: user1,user2,user3 all have delegate userx
This is much harder.

On Feb 20, 2019, at 1:21 AM, Noor Shimul <noor....@cabinetoffice.gov.uk> wrote:

User has delegate access to few accounts how do I remove all delegates at once using GAM rather then individually?

Thanks,

On Monday, 31 August 2015 17:38:49 UTC+1, JasonW wrote:
Hello All, 

I was wondering if anyone could help me out with removing a delegated email account?

to Delegate:  

gam user <user1> delegate to <user2>

Not sure how to reverse this!   Also, if anyone knows of a detailed help file where I can see a complete list of commands and syntax that would be great. 

Thank You!

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Feb 20, 2019, 11:26:46 AM2/20/19
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Noor,

This is much harder and can't be done in a single command; I'moffsite today,I'll send more information later this evening.

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Jay Lee

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Feb 20, 2019, 11:54:56 AM2/20/19
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As Ross mentioned this is hard because you need to check every single account in the domain to see if it's delegated to the user. The API only tells you which accounts have access to a given mailbox, there's no reverse function to see which mailboxes a given account has delegated access to.

The quick and dirty solution would be to reset the user account and login as the user to see what they have access to.

Depending on the number of users in your domain, you can try running below, it may take a very long time to finish if you have more than a few hundred users:

gam print users | gamd csv - gam user ~primaryEmail show delegates >> delegations.txt

once complete delegations.txt should show all the delegations and you can search the file for the user you care about.

Jay

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Ross Scroggs

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Feb 20, 2019, 12:29:12 PM2/20/19
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Noor,

See this script:

It will get the data your want.

What version of Gam do you have?

Ross

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Noor Shimul

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Mar 18, 2019, 10:36:13 AM3/18/19
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Hi Ross,


Thanks for your help so far, I am currently using the old version "GAM 4.55.43"

Thanks,

On Monday, 31 August 2015 17:38:49 UTC+1, JasonW wrote:

Ross Scroggs

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Noor,

That is a very old version but the Gam command required (gam all users print delegates shownames > ./AllDelegates.csv) should work. If not, you'll need to upgrade.

Ross

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