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Nigel Price
Iron Contributor
May 09, 2017

Can I add External users to a SharePoint group using (PnP) Powershell

Hi   Anyone know how to add external users to a group in an Office 365 Tenancy using (PnP) Powershell ?   (I have about 2500 external users to add)   Regards   Nigel
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Nils Külper
Copper Contributor
Nov 29, 2018

You can add Users to O365 Groups with this code:

 

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $userCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Import-PSSession $Session
Set-DistributionGroup "TeamsiteTest" -ManagedBy "nilsb@dudde.team" -BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck
Add-UnifiedGroupLinks -Identity "Teamsite Test" -LinkType Members -Links john@doe.com
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    Nils Külper
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 29, 2018

    And don't forget that you need to elevate a member to the status of an owner (and vice versa) like this:

     

    Add-UnifiedGroupLinks -Identity "Teamsite Test" -LinkType Members -Links john@doe.com
    Add-UnifiedGroupLinks -Identity "Teamsite Test" -LinkType Owners -Links john@doe.com
    Remove-UnifiedGroupLinks -Identity "Teamsite Test" -LinkType Owners -Links john@doe.com -Confirm:$false
    Remove-UnifiedGroupLinks -Identity "Teamsite Test" -LinkType Members -Links john@doe.com -Confirm:$false

     

    You add a new member and then you can set this contact as an owner. Works perfectly.