Hi,

You can use Shared Contacts and Profiles to access the domain's
contacts list, instead of the admin's contacts, please check:
http://code.google.com/apis/apps/shared_contacts/gdata_shared_contacts_api_reference.html#retrieving_without_query
http://code.google.com/apis/apps/profiles/developers_guide_protocol.html#retrieving_without_query

This entry in our FAQ may also help understanding the difference
between the 3 feeds:
http://code.google.com/apis/apps/faq.html#sharedcontactsexplained

Cheers,
Julian

On Nov 12, 9:26 pm, Alex Davidson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Wendy,
>
> I'm not doing *exactly *what you want, though what I am doing may be a good
> stepping stone to what you need.  I took a different approach, probably
> influenced by whatever code I found :)
>
> I'm using VB rather than C#, though the code should be easy to translate.
>
> Here's my approach.
>
> For web-based users:
> I rely on the Shared Contacts option, then use my code to add Groups
> manually
>
> For Outlook users:
> I generate a GAL for the users, then inject my groups manually (until a
> soon-to-be-released version of the GAL Generator enhances the whole thing to
> include Groups - apparently).
>
> To this end I maintain 2 local text files - 1 is a list of users and
> passwords, the other a list of groups along with text for the Notes to
> explain who is in each Group.
>
> I load the Users file and the Groups file, then I can choose to update one
> particular user's account using the credentials in the file, or I can select
> ALL and it just steps through the file and updates each one.
> The update consists of purging the existing Groups and repopulating their
> Contacts with the latest list of Groups.
>
> It's slow, and prone to timeouts from Google, but I've not found a better of
> doing this, and got no response here.
>
> Like I said.  This might not be exactly what you want, but if you're
> interested in seeing the code I can share.
>
> Alex
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:04 PM, nub4life <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm trying to create a tool that administers all of my domain's users'
> > contacts. We have Google Apps Premier.
>
> > I'm having some trouble reading all the documentation (it is a little
> > overwhelming!), so I hope someone here can help me out.
>
> > I have enabled 2-legged OAuth for my apps. I'm trying to write a
> > Windows Form application in C# that grabs the "master" list of
> > contacts (basically, the admin profile's contact list, which will be
> > administered in Google Contacts), figure out who was added/removed,
> > and update everyone's contact list accordingly.
>
> > I was able to set up the ContactService by doing this:
> > GOAuthRequestFactory go = new GOAuthRequestFactory("cp",
> > "ContactsManager");
> > go.ConsumerKey = "mydomain.com";
> > go.ConsumerSecret = "myconsumersecret";
>
> > ContactsService cs = new ContactsService("ContactsManager");
> > cs.RequestFactory = go;
>
> > Then I did this and was able to retrieve the admin's contact list feed
> > info:
> > Uri contactsUri = new OAuthUri("https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/
> > contacts/default/full<https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/%0Acontacts/default/full>",
> > "adminuser",
> > "mydomain");
> > ContactsQuery contactsQuery = new ContactsQuery();
> > contactsQuery.UseSSL = true;
> > contactsQuery.Uri = contactsUri;
> > contactsQuery.ShowDeleted = true;
>
> > ContactsFeed feed = cs.Query(contactsQuery);
>
> > foreach (ContactEntry entry in feed.Entries)
> > {
> >     Console.WriteLine(entry.Id.Uri.ToString() + " " +
> > entry.Deleted);
> > }
>
> > Now I am stuck. I don't know how to use this information to update
> > everyone's contact lists. Can anyone shed some light? Here are some of
> > my problems:
>
> > 1. I don't know how to identify each user (so that I can access their
> > contact list to update) from the ContactEntry (which seems to be in
> > relation to the admin user's contact list). Now that I'm thinking
> > about it, perhaps I need to use Google Provisioning API to do that?
> > 2. Even if I have a list of all the users, how do I figure out what
> > the URI (ie: the URI of the added/deleted contact) is to make a change
> > to the contact list?
> > 3. I know I can create contacts (http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/
> > docs/2.0/developers_guide_dotnet.html#Creating<http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/%0Adocs/2.0/developers_guide_dot...>),
> > but that example they
> > have uses ContactRequest, which in turn uses RequestSettings... which
> > I don't know how to use with GOAuthRequestFactory (GAuthToken,
> > QueryAuthToken() are null).
>
> > Thanks in advance, I'd really appreciate any help/input anyone has!
>
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