Welcome to GW Manager.

You can easily manage your Google Chrome OS devices in bulk with GW Manager. In this video, I will show you how to mass disable your Google Chrome OS devices with GW Manager.

For that, you will go to your Google Sheet and click on Extensions. Here, you should see GW Manager. Click on Launch.

If you haven't installed GW Manager yet, please visit our website to learn more about the installation options.

Once the extension is loaded, you will go to Manage Chrome OS devices under features list. Then select the first option ‘Chrome OS Device Actions’ which helps us take actions on the chrome devices.

GW Manager recognizes that we don't have the actions sheet inserted yet, and it is asking us to insert one. We'll click on Execute.

Now it has inserted a Chrome device actions sheet where we need to provide device ID, action name, and de-provision reason in case we are de-provisioning these devices.

To get the device IDs, you can also use our export chrome devices features which will output all devices including their device id, asset number, serial number and all other attributes.

Then you can copy the device ids from there, and paste them here in the device actions sheet.

If you hover on the device action column, it shows the possible values are de-provision, disable, re-enable, pre-provision disable, and pre-provision re-enable. 

As we are disabling the devices, we’ll select disable as the action name, so I'll just copy the value and paste it here.

Now the last column has de-provision reason values, but it is only required when we are de-provisioning the devices, So we’ll just skip that for now.

Now, if we go back to our admin console and do a quick refresh, you will see that we have one device that's enrolled for a test at gwmanager, and it's in the status of provisioned.

We will disable this device now, but feel free to put as many devices as you want to disable, GW Manager is capable of disabling over 100,000 devices in one go.

As we have provided all the required information in our device actions sheet, let us now click on the Execute button.

GW Manager will now start disabling these devices and will write back the status to our sheet in a few seconds (or minutes) depending on the number of devices you are disabling.

And as we see, GW Manager has successfully disabled the devices we provided in our actions sheet.

We can go to Google Workspace Admin console to confirm that, after a browser refresh, we see that GW Manager has indeed mass disabled the given devices.

This is how you can bulk manage Chrome OS devices with GW Manager.

You can do much more with GW Manager, and we are constantly adding more features based on customer requests.

Please visit our website, gwmanager.com, to learn more.

Thank you for reading.