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teams and bulk adding of members
When I set up a new team or a channel under a team, I noticed that I have to add each name one at a time. It's really tedious, and it seems like an easy add just to cut and paste a bunch of emails from a spreadsheet into this (you can do this in outlook to send to a large distro). Why are bulk adds in teams so difficult?
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Allow bulk adding of team members via .csv file. · Community (microsoft.com)
To be able to bulk add via CSV
Another way you can do it today, if you are an administrator and now how, is Powershell. You can do this with the Teams Powershell module. Lots of guides online. Gallery herePowerShell Gallery | MicrosoftTeams 3.0.0
Alternatives are groups or Power Automate
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
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ericxlin have you thought about using Power Automate.
- Create a table in a Excel sheet with your list of email addresses to be added to the team
- Create flow as described below
- Get the list of rows from the excel sheet and table
- Add member to a Team and select your team (this will automatically add the Apply to each step. This will repeat 1 to N times for each row of the Excel sheet and add member to Team)
- Then run flow and the users in the list are added to the team
- This worked well! Thanks
This worked awesomely .. saved my few hours of Ctrl+C+V !!.
More Screen instructions from my Flow which I managed to get to work.
( Note: Insert Table in Excel with only email values )
Step 1:
Step 2:
Step 3:
Sample Excel :
Run:
- nikkichapple. could you pls expand or provide a link to teach how to do flows? I've found the power apps/new flow link. BUt then there's diff types of flows to choose from...? Tried a couple and typed in "list rows present in a table" but nothing came up. Help please?
- Perhaps you can use the team code to let people join the team ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ_eTpQSjHY Hi Guys; trying some of your solutions.
sadly every solution is focused on adding emails ; on my case I have names of user from company(600 names) and no emails.
still searching for a way.
try to copy the names to outlook email, and you click the "check name". And then, you should have the email addresses for these names. And you can use the email address for bulk add in MSomarsaid980
ericxlin I have written a blog and developed a small script to do this easily.
https://gihanblog.netlify.app/posts/2020-08-19/add-bulk-users-to-teams
- Thank you, this was exactly what I needed!
Feedback URL for this (Updated Dec 2021)
Allow bulk adding of team members via .csv file. · Community (microsoft.com)
To be able to bulk add via CSV
Another way you can do it today, if you are an administrator and now how, is Powershell. You can do this with the Teams Powershell module. Lots of guides online. Gallery herePowerShell Gallery | MicrosoftTeams 3.0.0
Alternatives are groups or Power Automate
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris😞 link leads to "Something went wront". Doesn't work for me.
ChrisHoardMVP this site is no longer active.
missyllane UserVoice is temporarily down and will be up again for some time before Microsoft migrate to the new feature request platform. As of now instead of trying to vote on the linked request you can use the above solution provided in the post with a video link attached.
ChrisHoardMVP , thanks for the guidance. The solution doesn't help me since I'm not an admin (which i should have specified). Good to know that others have found this issue before and that it is on the radar. Poor that MS still has not fixed. It is alarming that a long-held feature is mysteriously dropped. At least I have peace of mind that a ton of time wasn't truly wasted for not knowing how to use the feature, but merely because the feature did not exist. Too many competing offerings get these details right.
