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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 fr...
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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
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
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?
Hi Nikki,
Found how to start the creation of a flow as per your image - but got stuck at adding the 'email'
in the teams section. Do you have advice for this step please?
- and...continuing to answer my own question in case it helps others; mine wasn't working bec i didn't 'format as table'. I found Nikki's blog which helped! https://nikkichapple.com/use-power-automate-to-bulk-add-members-into-microsoft-teams/