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StanleyHao
Brass Contributor
Jul 29, 2021

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...
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ChrisHoardMVP's avatar
ChrisHoardMVP
MVP
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
    Brass 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
      Brass 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=='

      Get-MgChat (Microsoft.Graph.Teams) | Microsoft Learn

      Remove-MgChatMember (Microsoft.Graph.Teams) | Microsoft Learn

       

      Hope it helps.

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