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Microsofthow to add multiple members to private group?
- Hi glura,
Stream groups are built using Office 365 groups.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/groups-channels-overview#office-365-groups
Therefore you can bulk add users to the Office 365 group which will sync over to the stream group
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/portal-manage-groups
A good way to do this is Powershell
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/users-and-groups/Add-UnifiedGroupLinks?view=exchange-ps
Hope that answers your question!
Best, Chris
glura in a text file, List the email addresses out with a semicolon in between them, then create the group click add members from outlook contacts and at the bottom of the screen in the field next to the members paste the list in there.
shastah What you described is exactly what I'm hoping to do. Can you give more context to what you described? I don't see the UI elements you mentioned in your post above.
For context, a feature we would love to see is the ability for normal users (not admins via a cmdlet) to feed a list of semicolon-separated ids or email addresses into the "Add group members" field. Currently you need to search for them one-by-one and as others have mentioned, this is a tedious process.
mcoulter315 I am running outlook for Office 365 on Windows 10 - go to contact (I click on the little people icon in the lower left corner) Right click anywhere in middle or right hand window where your contacts are listed and select new contact group. Give the group a name and click on Add members button, select from outlook contacts, and in the field marked members paste your semicolon separated contact list (just the emails separated by semicolons ; ) click OK, then save and close the group.
Hi shastah, the group list works fine for General Channel's teams, but with a new private channel doesn´t work, I still add one by one and is a very long process.
Thanks for your help!
to anyone following this: THIS IS WRONG.
Why? Because what it actually creates is a "Contact Group" not an "Office 365 Group". Unfortunately, this is an easy mistake to make. Our staff used to do this all the time.
- Please note: I was not replying to original post. I was directly replying to “mcoulter”
So unless you have the right answer to the original post your comment is not relevant to mine
