domainwidedelegation.comGet it set up

Use casesAdmin and governance

Reduce an over-broad delegation grant safely

Find out which scopes your automation genuinely uses, then cut the grant down to them.

Who it is forAnyone who authorised full access years ago to get something working.
APIsGmail API, Drive API, Admin SDK
Typical scopesvaries

The problem

Most grants are far broader than the work requires, usually because full access was the quickest way past an error during setup. That breadth is permanent risk.

How it works

  1. Inventory the calls your automation actually makes.
  2. Map each to the narrowest scope that permits it.
  3. Test the reduced set against a copy of the workload before changing the grant.
  4. Update the grant in every tenant and re-run the health check.

What changes

The same functionality with materially less exposure, and a documented reason for every scope.

The trap in this one. Removing a scope that something quietly depends on breaks it hours later. Verify against real workloads first, and change one tenant at a time.

Questions people ask

Is full mail access ever justified?

Only when you genuinely need permanent delete. Most jobs described as needing it actually need read plus modify.

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

Related use cases

Automate joiners, movers and leavers

Create accounts, set group membership, provision Drive and hand over mailboxes without a manual checklist.

Continuously verify your delegation still works

A scheduled probe that proves every API still answers under every tenant, before a customer finds out otherwise.

Hand over a departing employee's mail and files

Transfer ownership, set forwarding and preserve what matters before the account is suspended.