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StanleyHao
Jul 29, 2021Copper Contributor
how to remove unlicensed people from group chat by powershell?
hi gents,
i have a request to bulk remove unlicensed people from chat group, which is self-organized by random users
since unlicensed people are in many chat groups, manual way costs too much time, so i am wondering if there is a programming way to do the job
thanks for your ideas
- Hi StanleyHao
Sorry, nothing in the PowerShell cmdlets which point to being able to do this programmatically.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/teams/intro?view=teams-ps
I would recommend raising it on uservoice (https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public) whilst it is still around in order to raise it as a new feature. As far as I know this is the only possible way is
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/leave-or-remove-someone-from-a-group-chat-7db55a67-0ba4-4409-a399-5ed502a1d094
Note - If someone leaves or is removed from a group chat, their messages will remain in the group chat history
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
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- Hi StanleyHao
Sorry, nothing in the PowerShell cmdlets which point to being able to do this programmatically.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/teams/intro?view=teams-ps
I would recommend raising it on uservoice (https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public) whilst it is still around in order to raise it as a new feature. As far as I know this is the only possible way is
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/leave-or-remove-someone-from-a-group-chat-7db55a67-0ba4-4409-a399-5ed502a1d094
Note - If someone leaves or is removed from a group chat, their messages will remain in the group chat history
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris- StanleyHaoCopper ContributorHi ChrisHoardMVP
Thanks for your replies, similar result as my guess and researches. It is very helpful.
I'll go to uservoice to raise the request.- ExSportCZCopper Contributor
It is possible via MS Graph so if someone will find this thread, this may be still helpful:
#Install-Module -Name Microsoft.Graph (big module!) Connect-MgGraph -Scopes Chat.ReadBasic,ChatMember.ReadWrite $mbrs = $null Get-MgChat -All|where chattype -eq 'group'|%{ $chatgrps = $_ $mbr = Get-MgChatMember -ChatId $_.Id $mbrs += ,$(''|select @{n='Topic';e={$chatgrps.Topic}},Roles,@{n='ChatType';e={$chatgrps.ChatType}},@{n='CreatedDateTime';e={$chatgrps.CreatedDateTime}},@{n='LastUpdatedDateTime';e={$chatgrps.LastUpdatedDateTime}},@{n='ChatId';e={$chatgrps.Id}},@{n='MembersId';e={$mbr.Id}},@{n='Members';e={$mbr.displayname}}) } $mbrs|where members -Contains '{Name of the user for removal}'|fl *
This will list all groups where user is joined and its ChatId and MemberId.
Below code (with correct ChatId and MemberId) will remove user from group.Remove-MgChatMember -ChatId '19:adfgdfgfdff09f9f8cdhdghhfdff4607f@thread.v2' -ConversationMemberId 'MCMfghgfhfghfghJhOGItYgfhfghgf2YfffffZjM2NzIyZjNhIyMxOTphNGQ1NWJlNzAxhgfhfghfg2RmMmJlYWY0NjA3ZkB0aHJlYWQgfhgfhgfNi1iNTRmLTE5fghgfgZTA0MWYyZA=='
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.graph.teams/get-mgchat?view=graph-powershell-1.0
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.graph.teams/remove-mgchatmember?view=graph-powershell-1.0
Hope it helps.