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Creatign a group with a large number of members from my istitution
Hi everybody, I am actually creating some podcast for my students in Italy, using Stream. I would like to share the content with my students only , rather than with everyone in institution. As far a...
- Hi davidgiofre
Great question: unfortunately you can't bulk add through the Stream portal at web.microsofstream.com.
However, the group you create is an Office 365 Group - your IT admin can bulk add users to this using Powershell and a CSV file. See articles here
https://www.morgantechspace.com/2017/12/add-bulk-users-to-office-365-group-with-powershell.html
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/Add-Bulk-Users-to-Office-19861f75
So I would recommend working with your IT admin on this
Hope that answers your question!
Best, Chris
Another option, is create the group over in Yammer, which will allow you to use a CSV to create the accounts. Yet another idea, which I just did yesterday, is to use a DL or Outlook distribution list and create an O365 group using the People feature found in Outlook. Once you create the new group you can search for users, groups or DL's.