January 2018

Google API Bug: Google Groups Settings returning wrong value – You need to invite!!!

So.. This is wierd..

Apparently, If you try and set “whocaninvite” in groups settings via API to “NONE_CAN_INVITE”, the API returns the value as “ALL_MANAGERS_CAN_INVITE”.

If you set other settings say “ALL_MANAGERS_CAN_INVITE” or “ALL_MEMBERS_CAN_INVITE” it works fine and confirms by returning the same value back.

This is the same if you do via GAM tool or via their web portal to change a group settings

 

 

Above, if you select “Managers of the group” and save.. and then go back to the group, you will see the tick gone.

Apparently not affecting everyone.. Well it was and then they said they fixed it, and I said.. Nope.. So they have to open a new bug 72470856 for this one.

C’mon google.. you guys are the coders right? the developers?

By Piyush Khandelwal, ago

Powershell Tip: FIM/MIM Explicit Disconnectors be gone… quickly!!!

Happy New Year!!! Hope everyone had a great 2017 and hopefully an even better 2018

If you know disconnectors then you definitely know how irritating the FIM/MIM GUI can be to convert a disconnector from explicit to normal or vice versa when you have potentially 10’s or 100’s of them… Joiner tab isn’t really friendly to select multiple disconnectors and “batch” convert them.

Thanks to Lithnet MIIS Powershell you can do the conversion of 100’s of them in 1 line and in couple of seconds

If you have a MA with 100’s of explicit disconnectors just run the following command (replacing the <MA NAME> with the ….. MA Name )

Done… Simples… You can ofcourse do the opposite as well if you wish i.e. Normal disconnectors -> Explicit Disconnectors.

By Piyush Khandelwal, ago