📙 Tutorial: How to create and manage Microsoft Teams via PowerShell?

The Microsoft Teams PowerShell-module provides the ability to run scripts or modify policies through the command line interface of the Administrator panel.

Sometimes this is a practical way to quickly make changes all at once or adjust settings not yet available in the graphical interface or through the Teams control panel https://admin.teams.microsoft.com. These bulk changes can be useful if you want to quickly modify large numbers of settings or access settings that are not yet fully available in the graphical interface.

What is PowerShell?

PowerShell is a command-line interpreter and environment developed by Microsoft for configuring and managing systems. It is based on the .NET Framework and provides a comprehensive set of cmdlets (command-line tools) for performing a wide variety of tasks, such as managing user accounts, installing software, and managing network configurations. PowerShell is part of several Microsoft products, including Windows and Office 365, and can be used by system administrators and other advanced users.

Open Powershell as administrator

Install Microsoft's PowerShell module Teams

Run the following line in PowerShell:

Install-Module MicrosoftTeams

Connecting to PowerShell

Import-Module MicrosoftTeams
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
Connect-MicrosoftTeams

Enter a username and password of your Global Administrator or Microsoft Teams administrator.

Microsoft Teams retrieve with PowerShell?

Get-Team

Command presets from Teams

Get-Command -Module MicrosoftTeams

Meetingpolicies via PowerShell

Get-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy

Make adjustments to store meeting recordings, for example, on OneDrive instead of Microsoft Stream

Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity global -RecordingStorageMode OneDriveForBusiness

Create a new Microsoft Team via PowerShell

New-Team -DisplayName 'test team'

Delete a Team via PowerShell

Remove-Team -GroupId ebae4935-4654-426e-b49c-7d16372899f8

Retrieve a Team with PowerShell

Install the PowerShell module from Azure AD via:

Install-Module AzureADPreview

Connect-AzureAD to connect to Azure Active Directory

Connect-AzureAD
Restore-AzureADMSDeletedDirectoryObject -Id ebae4935-4654-426e-b49c-7d16372899f8

The group ID can be found via: Get-Team

Adding private channels to a Team

New-TeamChannel -GroupId f98369f6-24d6-4b8d-aa1c-ca5a3e0a94f7 -DisplayName "Internal Communications" -MembershipType Private
New-TeamChannel -GroupId f98369f6-24d6-4b8d-aa1c-ca5a3e0a94f7 -DisplayName "External Services" -MembershipType Private
New-TeamChannel -GroupId f98369f6-24d6-4b8d-aa1c-ca5a3e0a94f7 -DisplayName "Finacial" -MembershipType Private

Adding users to a team

add-teamuser -groupid 4c7de4c1-3b14-46a2-bd30-675de9c080a8 -user Jef@365tips.be
 add-teamuser -groupid 4c7de4c1-3b14-46a2-bd30-675de9c080a8 -user dirk@365tips.be
 add-teamuser -groupid 4c7de4c1-3b14-46a2-bd30-675de9c080a8 -user Piet@365tips.be

Don't know where to start?

Install get-help!

Get-help

Get-help helps!

Other helpful Teams blogs, here. All of Office 365 's portals can be found here .

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Jasper

Welcome to 365tips.be. On this website you can read articles and experiences about Office 365 with focus on Microsoft Teams. Feel free to ask me a question and I'll answer in a blog post. Help others by commenting at the bottom of the articles. This blog is created in Dutch. The multilingual website is offered with best-effort machine translation.

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