How To Create Microsoft Teams And Channel Using PowerShell

This blog will help you create Microsoft Teams and channel using PowerShell.

Introduction

 

Microsoft Teams has reached 115 million daily active users and this number is increasing day by day. Hence automating multiple processes of Microsoft Teams could be a requirement for many customers.

 

There are multiple options to provide this requirement: 

1. Using Graph API to create Automation for Teams
2. Use Teams PowerShell
3. Use PnP PowerShell

There can be additional options as well so this could be a long list but in this blog we will cover how we can automate creating teams and channels using Teams PowerShell.

 

Using Teams PowerShell

 

Step 1 - Install Teams PowerShell

 

To install a Teams PowerShell Use the below command 

Note

To check the latest version of Teams PowerShell check the link.

Install-Module -Name MicrosoftTeams -AllowPrerelease -Scope CurrentUser

Step 2 - PowerShell Script

 

To connect we would need to have tenant admin access or teams admin access.

In PowerShell script described below we have created two functions 

1. CreateTeam - For creating the team
2. CreateChannel - For creating channel inside the team

function CreateTeam {
    Param($credential, [string] $DisplayName, [string] $Description)
    Connect - MicrosoftTeams - Credential $credential
    $team = New - Team - DisplayName $DisplayName - Description $Description
    Disconnect - MicrosoftTeams
    return $team
}

function CreateChannel {
    Param($credential, $team, [string] $DisplayName, [string] $Description)
    Connect - MicrosoftTeams - Credential $credential
    New - TeamChannel - GroupId $team.GroupId - DisplayName $DisplayName - Description $Description
    Disconnect - MicrosoftTeams
}
$credential = Get - Credential
$DisplayName = Read - Host "Please enter Display Name of Teams"
$Description = Read - Host "Please enter Description of Teams"
$team = CreateTeam - DisplayName $DisplayName - Description $Description - credential $credential
$DisplayNameChannel = Read - Host "Please enter Display Name of Channel"
$DescriptionChannel = Read - Host "Please enter Description of Channel"
CreateChannel - team $team - DisplayName $DisplayNameChannel - Description $DescriptionChannel - credential $credential

Conclusion

 

Using PowerShell we can create automation for Teams and channel creation. We can even extend this by looping through excel with all the values already added or fetching the name and description from a SharePoint list.