On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 08:16 AM, Sandi D. wrote:
I have been thinking along the lines of your post today, wondering about bringing my domain account users into GIO and weighing the pros and cons.?
Hi, Sandi -
I've read your post through a couple of times, and it's sparked a lot of ideas for me, mostly around GSuite management of email, which I've done with other domains, and considering a Google Group (or two) for our Board Members, as you have done. I also think it's a good idea to keep private business away from public forums, and I'm really liking GIO for our public discussion group.
I realize that you're asking some of the same questions about GIO that I am about what is feasible/possible. And I believe that a benefit of having GSuite manage the MX records of your domain accounts would be that you could use
/api#google-login-start to get a security token and log in your users. At least I think that's true--you'd have to confirm with the API group.
As for switching domain email accounts on or off in GSuite, I don't think it would throttle their ability to access your GIO site, although I could be wrong. I think their GIO accounts would still be active, but they just couldn't send or receive any email messages from/to GIO because you'd prevented them from sending/receiving emails. But they would still be able to access the GIO site and read what's in there, I think, until you go into GIO Admin and remove that user from your group. You'd have also messed up their ability to participate (with your domain email, at least) in any other forums they'd signed up for within GIO. At least, I think that's the way it works... :-) I'm new here.
Thanks again for sharing your thoughts!
- Gary
