Question about cleaning up Groups in Atlassian Admin...

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Hello! I am working on cleaning up and organizing our Groups in Atlassian Admin, but had a few questions that maybe the community here can help me answer:

When going through the list of Groups for our Site, I have noticed a few that say "This is a legacy group that was migrated when this organization was switched to the centralized user management."

If these are "legacy" groups, does this mean they are no longer required? Can I safely delete them? I know this may impact permissions, but I believe we have the users in these groups covered by other, more recently created Groups (or the newer Default groups that were created post-switch).

Lastly, is there no "easy" way to determine if a specific Group is used in any Confluence site permissions or Jira permission schemes?

John Funk · Answer

Hi Zachary,

They are still active and can be used - you just need to decide if you need them now. The Revyz Data Configuration for Jira app can help you to identify these things. You can do a free trial from the Atlassian Marketplace.

Marc -Devoteam- · Answer

HI @Zachary Howard

No legacy doesn't mean NOT USED.

It's a group that was created before Atlassian made a change to switch the user management system, to centralized.

These groups can be still in use.

You can get the permission scheme details vai the API, se; https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-permission-schemes/#api-rest-api-3-permissionscheme-schemeid-get

For COnfluence you coiuld look at; https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/v2/api-group-space-permissions/#api-spaces-id-permissions-get but my recollection means to say this doesn't provide much detailed users or groups.