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[Jim Fox <>]

We keep a year's worth of course groups.  Once a course group
is older than that it is deleted from our group service and
consequently deleted from google.  And deleted from our AD.

Jim



On Fri, 22 Aug 2014, Scott Koranda wrote:

> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:38:58
> From: Scott Koranda 
> <>
> To: Steven Carmody 
> <>
> Cc: Grouper-Users 
> <>
> Subject: Re: [grouper-users] replication to Google, Phase 2 ....
>
> Hi,
>
> I know August is a crummy time to ask leading questions since many
> people are out on vacation/holiday, but if anybody is provisioning
> from Grouper to Google and has thought about what to do for "delete" I
> would be grateful if you could drop me a note.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Scott
>
> > We are interested to know how other campuses deal with "delete" for groups, 
> > and
> > in particular course groups. In the current deployment when the course group
> > is removed from the SOR (LDAP in this case), the loader of course removes it
> > from Grouper. The custom provisioning code at this point does not call
> > the Directory
> > API 'delete' call for the group but instead uses the Groups Setting
> > API 'patch' call
> > to change the resource setting for 'archiveOnly' to 'true'. The
> > primary reason for doing
> > this is to not "lose" associated "buckets" of information that might
> > have accumulated
> > when the group was in use.
> >
> > What approaches to "delete" for course groups are other campuses taking?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Scott K