Google Apps Manager Changelog

What's new in Google Apps Manager 3.02

Oct 3, 2013
  • client_secrets.json is no longer shipped with GAM, you need to create your own with the instructions at http://goo.gl/QYaQ6R
  • New "gam report logins" command to report on user login times and IP.
  • Updated "gam report domain" command provides cleaner details of aggregate usage.
  • "gam report admin" fixed.
  • Fix "gam ou..." commands (they were hanging forever)
  • Other minor cleanups and fixes.

New in Google Apps Manager 3.01 (Aug 28, 2013)

  • Fix gamcache errors on Windows by keeping cache filenames much shorter.
  • add (back) support for setting/updating calendar colors
  • add support for bulk updating users specified on the command like (gam update users "[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]"... OR gam update users [email protected],[email protected],[email protected]...)
  • fix setting "gal off" during user creation.
  • rewrite "gam info domain" to use new API library (should help with Unicode/UTF-8 errors)
  • fix "show pop" and signature commands
  • handle out of memory errors more gracefully

New in Google Apps Manager 3.0 (Aug 22, 2013)

  • Support for the Enterprise License API. Manage Drive storage and Google Coordinate licenses for users.
  • Improved compatability with GAM commands from 2.55 and older.
  • Fixed undelete user command.
  • New "gam print group-members" command to print user membership of all groups.
  • New "gam update user..." command to bulk modify settings for given users. For example, "gam all users update user changepassword on" will force password change for all users, 'gam group [email protected] update user suspended on' will suspend all members of class-of-2013 group.
  • Optimizations which should result in modest improvements to GAM startup time and performance.

New in Google Apps Manager 2.994 Dev (Jun 14, 2013)

  • Rewritten "gam reports" commands. gam report users, gam report domain, gam report docs, gam report admin
  • If CSV file uploaded to drive on "gam report" and "gam print" commands with the todrive parameter are more than 400,000 cells or 256 columns, don't convert to GDoc Spreadsheet.
  • Remove old Admin Audit API scope (replaced by Reports API).
  • new command: gam all users prism off

New in Google Apps Manager 2.99 (May 21, 2013)

  • Support for the newly announced Google Apps Admin SDK offering a richer feature set of management for your users, groups, aliases and other objects.
  • Simplified OAuth 2.0 authentication
  • Ability to manage Mobile and Chrome OS devices.
  • Ability to add managers to groups
  • Ability to manage group aliases
  • Increased performance thanks to new Google API formats, caching, compression and partial update features.
  • To many more features to list here! Download it now to see for yourself.

New in Google Apps Manager 2.55 (Dec 4, 2012)

  • Fix change in Google APIs broke "gam whatis" command.
  • Fix change in Google APIs broke "gam info domain" command on CNAME Verification Status message.

New in Google Apps Manager 2.54 (Sep 29, 2012)

  • Fix a stupid bug that broke "gam print users" when used without additional attributes.
  • Another fix for outbound gateway settings on "gam info domain"
  • Get this whatsnew.txt doc up to date.

New in Google Apps Manager 2.53 (Sep 24, 2012)

  • Two new group settings, spam_moderation_level and include_in_global_address_list allow further customization of your Google Groups.
  • Error reporting for mailbox delegation has been further improved, GAM does a better job of pinpointing why a delegation failed.
  • Fixed updating and deleting domain and default users for calendar ACLs
  • proper error handling for adding and removing group members and owners
  • Fixed error on gam info domain caused by failure to retrieve outbound gateway settings.

New in Google Apps Manager 2.51 (Aug 31, 2012)

  • New gam calendar wipe command allows clearing all data off a user's primary calendar
  • create user and update user commands now support setting user's org.
  • gam whatis command allows looking up an email address to determine if it's a user, alias or group.
  • gam delete user no longer renames a user by default since undelete is now in CPanel. Added optional dorename parameter to force old renaming behavior.
  • Fix issue that broke gam delete resource command
  • GAM now offers to remember your client secret and key when entered the first time
  • various other bug fixes

New in Google Apps Manager 1.6 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • NEW Support for Account Auditing
  • Monitor Users' Incoming and Outgoing, Chats and Drafts*
  • Export Users' mailboxes*
  • Get activity logs of user logins, login failures and logouts*
  • NEW Support for Multiple Domains
  • Move Users between Google Apps Primary and Secondary Domains*
  • Manage Email Aliases for Users
  • Existing GAM User and User Email Settings Commands now support users on secondary domains
  • Rename User Accounts* (see here)
  • Delete Users and Recreate Them Immediately*, no 5 day wait (see here)
  • Configure User Email Settings (see here)
  • Manage Resource Calendars (see here)
  • Manage Organizations (see here)
  • Print CSV Files of All Users, Groups, Nicknames, Organizational Units and Resource Calendars (see here)
  • Fully Documented List of GAM Commands

New in Google Apps Manager 1.0 (Jul 13, 2010)

  • NEW Support for Account Auditing
  • Monitor Users' Incoming and Outgoing, Chats and Drafts
  • Export Users' mailboxes
  • Get activity logs of user logins, login failures and logouts
  • NEW Support for Multiple Domains
  • Move Users between Google Apps Primary and Secondary Domains
  • Manage Email Aliases for Users
  • Existing GAM User and User Email Settings Commands now support users on secondary domains
  • Rename User Accounts* (see here)
  • Delete Users and Recreate Them Immediately*, no 5 day wait (see here)
  • Configure User Email Settings (see here)
  • Fully Documented List of GAM Commands

New in Google Apps Manager 0.010 Beta (Dec 23, 2009)

  • "gam all users print" provides list of all users in domain. Better error messages on account rename.