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Copper Contributor

Aug 13, 2020

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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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ChrisHoardMVP
Aug 13, 2020
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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 here

PowerShell Gallery | MicrosoftTeams 3.0.0

Alternatives are groups or Power Automate

Hope that answers your question

Best, Chris

Chris365

Copper Contributor

Jun 28, 2022

Hi NikkiChapple_

Thanks for the flow. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work with external people as the "Add a member" action asks for the AAD ID. It wants users it already knows 😛

My flow fails with the error message : "User '65237ea-7d72-a409-f59cfa6d2acb' does not exist."

JeromeSimeoni

Copper Contributor

Apr 26, 2023

Chris365 You can add an name, distribution list or Security Group - you can add a name of a team - e.g. distribution list of PMs - and it will append all of the people in the list. Also prompting you whom of the list were already in the team. Not sure if that helps at all!

Agata9674
Copper Contributor
May 18, 2023
JeromeSimeoni

Any idea why i can't add my AAD security Group to my teams channel?