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Scheduled Automatic Removal of Google Workspace Users

With GAT Flow you can set up a workflow to automatically suspend or delete users from your G Suite environment

Ideal for temporary G Suite accounts in your Domain. #

Flow can be used to OnBoard user’s details on this page 

Schedule #

If the accounts are temporary, the admin can schedule the workflow to happen on a future date.

  • OffBoard users – delete them from your domain
  • Modify – Suspend the users, if they need to be ‘reactivated’ at a later time.

Open Flow #

Launch GAT Flow from the top menu

Create workflow #

A new window will be opened.

Select Create workflow from the menu on left

Workflow type #

In “Workflow type” add a name and pick the workflow type to OffBoarding or Modify

  • Modify – you can ‘suspend user’, that can be re-activated
  • OffBoard – user will be deleted from your domain

The Workflow can be set up to run in the selected future time

Click on the Next button to proceed

Search user #

In Search for a user pick the users that will be offboarded when the scheduled time comes in.

  • Search for users, groups of users, or org. unit of users
  • Import users – you can also import users via Google sheet

Click on the “Proceed to actions” button.

Choose actions #

In “Choose actions” search and select the actions you want to take on the chosen users.

To “Add action (2)” or “Add action set (3)”, please select the plus + button shown in the screenshot below.

If the process hasn’t been set before (no action set created), please use Add action button and create the node.

Search for the action using the search field and select the action you want to take.

Once the actions are selected fill in the required details for each of them.

Click on Send approval request on the bottom right side.

A pop-up confirmation message will be displayed.

Approval #

The request email will be sent to the Security officer for approval.

This will lead them to the Approval page, and under the “eye” icon, the request can be approved or denied 

Result #

When approved, the result in Flow can be seen in Approval (for Security Officers) and Workflow tab for the Admins (non-security officers)

Click on the “eye” icon on the right side for more details

The job will be of Status equal Scheduled. 

This means the Workflow is Scheduled to run on the selected time ( 1 October 2022 )

Note: The request can be scheduled and approved at any time before the scheduled time

The Workflow has been scheduled and approved.

When the scheduled time arrives (1 October 2022), the workflow will be executed and users deleted.

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