Curious. Did you look in using the async/multithreading support that  
was recently put into the .NET library for this?

Regards

Frank Mantek
Google
On Sep 19, 2008, at 11:29 AM, George wrote:

>
> I have found a solution that works for me.
> I simply retrieve all users from Google, compare them to users stored
> in my database and decide if there are manually created/updated/
> deleted users.
> I use a trick to retrieve users quite fast - 40 seconds for 10.700
> users.
> In case anyone is interested, I have described my approach here:
> http://groups.google.com/group/google-apps-apis/browse_thread/thread/28a8d9a39f96c178
>
> Regards,
> George
>
> On Sep 17, 9:40 am, George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Thank you for your reply.
>> I have already tried multi-threading. It speeds things up a little  
>> but
>> not that much. Moreover, you cannot speed up retrieval of accounts,
>> because pages must be retrieved sequentially or all at once.
>> Maybe I will create my own web application for administrators, which
>> will allow them to do the same tasks through provisioning API and
>> write correct information to my database too.
>>
>> Regards,
>> George
>>
>> On Sep 16, 7:07 pm, "Julian (Google)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>
>>> Unfortunately for Google Apps APIs we do not offer this possibility
>>> using the Provisioning API. But, to speed up synchronization, you
>>> could try multi-threading, 10 or 15 threads max should help speeding
>>> things up.
>>
>>> I also recommend using the Reporting API, the Accounts Report can
>>> retrieve the list of all user of a domain faster than the  
>>> Provisioning
>>> API, just take into account that reports have 1 or 2 days of delay
>>> depending on the time of the query:
>>
>>> http://code.google.com/apis/apps/reporting/ 
>>> google_apps_reporting_api....
>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Julian.
>>
>>> On Sep 15, 4:31 pm, George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>
>>>> is there a way to get Google users from our domain that were  
>>>> created/
>>>> modifed/deleted since some configurable time using .NET  
>>>> provisioning
>>>> API?
>>
>>>> It seems that UserQuery object ignores "updated-min" query  
>>>> parameter
>>>> (StartDate property from FeedQuery) and does not put it in  
>>>> calculated
>>>> URI.
>>
>>>> I tried to create my own class, which inherits from UserQuery and
>>>> overrides CalculateQuery() method. It correctly calculates  
>>>> request URI
>>>> - e.g.:
>>>> "https://www.google.com/a/feeds/ourdomain/user/2.0?updated-
>>>> min=2008-09-13T00:00:00+02:00".
>>>> But when I submit it, I receive:
>>>> HTTP status code: 403 (Forbidden)
>>>> Message: "This service does not support the &#39;updated-min&#39;
>>>> parameter."
>>
>>>> From what I can read 
>>>> herehttp://code.google.com/apis/gdata/reference.html#Queries
>>>> it seems that user service does not support such query parameter.
>>
>>>> I have also tried to use iModifiedSince argument of Query()  
>>>> method of
>>>> UserService object e.g.:
>>>> userService.Query(userQuery.Uri, new DateTime(2008, 8, 13, 0, 0,  
>>>> 0));
>>>> which sends HTTP request with If-Modified-Since header, but I get
>>>> NotModified HTTP status code.
>>
>>>> Is there a way how to accomplish this?
>>
>>>> I have a database containing information about Google users in our
>>>> domain, who were created automatically by my synchronization  
>>>> code. The
>>>> code synchronizes Google users with other systems. It works great,
>>>> however I would like to be able to support manual changes made by
>>>> administrators through Google admin web pages i.e. I would like to
>>>> recognize manually created/modified/deleted Google users and
>>>> synchronize them with my database, so it stays in sync with  
>>>> Google's
>>>> current state. And I do not want to retrieve all users in domain,
>>>> because it is very very slow (we have 10.000+ users currently).  
>>>> Is it
>>>> possible to retrieve changed users only?
>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> George
>>
>>
> >


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