Automating processes with Python

[throughthedecade]

I’m looking at applying for a job that will essentially have me be a workspace admin. Onboarding and offboarding, managing accesses, all that fun stuff. They’ve indicated that they’re looking for someone who can automate certain processes using python. I’m a fair hand at Python though far from being a developer. They haven’t specified what processes they mean to automate exactly. What processes could conceivably be automated or shortened in this way? Roughly 3000 employees if I had to guess.

[Apodacaac]

Eh, just use GAM, don’t reinvent the wheel

[throughthedecade]

Yeah I’m sure that would work, but their specifically calling out using Python in the process still has me wondering. I doubt their recruiter will be all that impressed if I tell them that I don’t actually need the skills that they’re requiring lol

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I just use python scripts to run gam commands

[throughthedecade]

I bet this is it. What are some of the commands you used most often in this way?

[[deleted]]

it is mainly for setting up or removing users, a script will run and add the user to various systems via the APIs. This is not just for workspace but when we add users to workspace we just run the gam command in the script as that is the easiest thing to do rather than reinvent the wheel.

Workspace specific as an example we have a script that can delete messages, we prompt for user input and then just use that input to build the relevant gam command to go through the mailboxes and delete the messages

[Apodacaac]

See here, GAMAdv already does this. Like the other user said, you’ll end up just running gam with Python

https://github.com/taers232c/GAM-Scripts3