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Automatically fix group memberships across your domain

Continuously enforce group membership policies by scanning and remediating with a delegated service account, closing the gap between intended and actual access.

Who it is forIT administrators responsible for access control and compliance.
APIsAdmin SDK
Typical scopesadmin.directory.group, admin.directory.group.member

The problem

Manual group management drifts quickly: people move roles, join or leave, but group memberships lag behind, creating risk and audit failures. Remediation by hand is slow and error-prone, especially at scale.

How it works

  1. Maintain a source of truth for each group's intended membership.
  2. Impersonate an admin with the group and group.member scopes.
  3. List actual group members via the Admin SDK.
  4. Add missing members and remove unauthorised ones to match policy.
  5. Log all changes for review and compliance.

What changes

Groups are kept in sync with policy, reducing excess access and audit exceptions without manual intervention.

The trap in this one. Group membership changes made via the Admin SDK can take several minutes to propagate. If you read back membership immediately after a write, you may see stale data and trigger repeated, unnecessary changes. This can result in API quota exhaustion or members being repeatedly re-added or removed in a loop. Always build in propagation delay handling and idempotency checks.

Questions people ask

How often should remediation run?

Hourly or daily is typical, but the right interval depends on your risk tolerance and the volume of group changes.

What about nested groups?

The Admin SDK only returns direct members; you must handle nested memberships separately if your policy relies on them.

Want this built?

This is a pattern we run in production. We will set up the delegation and build this on top of it — $500 per hour, most of it working the same day.

Talk to us Or read the setup guide

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