Removing Ex-Employees

[Melih]

Hello,

We have an issue in that our ex-employees (about 3 of them) had their own
laptops and installed Groove on there. We are trying to figure out how to
eliminate them from having access to the company Groove space.

Please keep in mind that our team is virtual. We do not have an official
Groove server that we manage. Rather our Groove is synchronized amongst all
of us over the web.

Look forward to any feedback on this type of situation.

Thanks.

 

[Gregg Johnston [MSFT]]

Hi there,

Any manger in a space can uninvited the members from a space. A manger just
goes into the space and under the Workspace Members list right clicks the
member to be uninvited and selects uninvite.

Gregg

 

[Melih]

Hi Gregg,

Thank you very much for your help. Our next question is certainly going to
complicate things on this matter.

We have taken one of the work spaces that an ex-employee was a manager and
copied it all to a new work space without the ex-employee. HOWEVER.....the
work space with the ex-employee only has that ex-employee as the manager.
The rest of us are all participants. Anything we can do to remove ourselves
from a workspace?

Thanks again.

 

[Gregg Johnston [MSFT]]

Hi there,

Sure, go into your Launch Bar, right click on the space in question and then
select Delete. One other thing you can do if you want to retain all of the
space tools and data is to right click on the space in question and select
Duplicate Workspace and invite all of the current employees to that space.
It will have all the tools and data of the prior space.

Gregg

 

[Melih]

Hi Gregg,

Thanks for the feedback...these instructions seem easy enough.

I thought our questions would be over with this last round, however, we do
have one more question.

The employee(s) that are no longer with us....but have Groove on the laptops
that they owned....can we assume there is no way to block them from access to
the Groove space that is already resident on their laptop? or is there a way
to remove their accounts so they cannot log into Groove to begin with or to
the account that was related to our business?

Thanks for the feedback.

 

[Gregg Johnston [MSFT]]

Hi there,

Glad to help out. The answer to your question is yea and no.

If you have a managed environment using a Groove Management Server or
Enterprise Services, then you can revoke the user’s account.

However, if you do not have a Groove Managed Domain, then no, you cannot
remove their account and they will have access to the space.

Gregg