Automated provisioning of Teams

[Christophe Humbert]

I use PnP for provisioning Teams in the commercial cloud, but this is not available in GCCH.

What method(s) do you recommend in GCC High? In my case, we are talking about possibly hundreds of teams to start this month.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

@Christophe Humbert thanks for posting.  Recommendations for current since PnP is not available would be a few things:

Leverage PowerShell for scripting out Teams creation.  You could build out some scenarios and then execute them based on the variables you'd need for multiple Teams creation scenarios.  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/teams/new-team?view=teams-ps

Additionally look at creating Team templates for deployment of Teams:  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/get-started-with-teams-templates

Hopefully those can help save you some deployment efforts for mass team creations!

[#3]

@Josh Leporati What about Power Automate - When will that be an option to automatically create Teams?

[#4]

@Michael Cassidy no timeline I see on that yet, features continue to improve and add for functionality within Power Automate though. 

I can see some good future use cases there to automate some other input sources to then go and create Teams on demand.

Also if you haven't seen this page for any info on Power Automate for US Government please check it out: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/us-govt

Also here for some planned features (could be some differences on what lands in Gov - so keep that in mind) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform-release-plan/2019wave2/power-automate/planned-featur...

[#5]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/get-started-with-teams-templates

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/us-govt