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Still Cannot Bulk Add People or Groups in Team/Channel in 2026
It's 2026, still same issue. As a regular user/leader of a large team (hundreds of people), we still cannot bulk add people in Team/Channel. It's frustrating to add one people at a time.
This has been brought up in 2020, 6 years after, same issue.
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No real resolution.
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Six years is fair to be annoyed about. Three options that work today.
Nested groups is the real fix. Build a security group with everyone you need, then add that group to the team instead of adding people one at a time. Membership propagates, and anyone you add to the group later gets inherited automatically without touching the team again.
PowerShell if you'd rather script it. Connect-MicrosoftTeams, then loop Add-TeamUser against a CSV of UPNs. Handles hundreds in about a minute, and you don't need admin rights as long as you're a team owner.
The Teams admin center under Manage teams is slightly faster than the client, but it's still one entry at a time. Not really a bulk fix.
It's on the feedback backlog with plenty of votes, but after six years I'd treat nested groups as the permanent answer rather than waiting for a native import.
Have you considered Entra Catalogs+Access Packages? It will definitely solve the adding to multiple teams part.
It requires some organization, but will make things very easy in the long term.
