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StanleyHao
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Jul 29, 2021
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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

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  • ChrisHoardMVP's avatar
    ChrisHoardMVP
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    Jul 29, 2021
    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
    • StanleyHao's avatar
      StanleyHao
      Copper Contributor
      Jul 30, 2021
      Hi 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.

      • ExSportCZ's avatar
        ExSportCZ
        Copper Contributor
        Nov 09, 2022

        StanleyHao ChrisHoardMVP 

        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.

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