Bulk create and iimport contacts into Teams Contacts

Hi JFM_12,

thanks for the update and more details.

We can change the approach and try this:

1. Prepare Your Contacts in Azure Active Directory (AAD):

   • Ensure that all the contacts you want to import into Teams are already present in your Azure Active Directory.
   • Make sure that the contacts have names and email addresses, and that their names follow the naming convention you want to use in Teams.

2. Export Contacts from Azure Active Directory:

   • You can use PowerShell to export contacts from Azure Active Directory. Here's a sample script:

# Connect to Azure AD Connect-AzureAD -TenantId <YourTenantId>
# Export contacts to a CSV file
Get-AzureADContact | Select-Object DisplayName,PrimarySmtpAddress | Export-Csv -Path "C:\Path\to\contacts.csv" -NoTypeInformation

• This script will export the display names and primary SMTP addresses of your contacts to a CSV file.

• Import Contacts into Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online):

  • Use PowerShell to import the contacts into Exchange Online, which is part of Microsoft 365. Here's a simplified script example:

     

# Connect to Exchange Online
Connect-ExchangeOnline -UserPrincipalName <YourAdminUser> -ShowProgress $true

# Import Contacts from CSV
Import-Csv "C:\Path\to\contacts.csv" | ForEach-Object {
    New-MailContact -Name $_.DisplayName -ExternalEmailAddress $_.PrimarySmtpAddress
}

• Replace <YourAdminUser> with the admin user's email address.