Mass add users to a channel or team
Please add mass add users to a channel or team.
Like we use on other Office 365 services. email@domain;email@domain and (if possible) @everyone something like that.
I'm using and loving Microsoft Teams :-)
Thanks a lot.
Thank you for your feedback and comments! The team is looking into how best to do this. We will post an update here as we have more to share.
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Dale Walker
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Yes, yes. In fact we need more M365 tools to create & manage departmental groupings in general, not just in Teams but across all the M365 tools.
We need a nice control panel for our office management staff to create and manage security groups so that adding new staff member to a massive pile of teams, other SharePoint libraries, etc., is as easy as adding them to a security group. Also a pain is if a staff member moves department. We then have to manually go through all the teams to make sure they're in the right ones. It's a total pain and something that should not really be left to doing it manually.
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John Raabe
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Hi,
Once our internal Exchange is migrated to Outlook online, then will we be able to add Distribution Lists already defined in the Global Address Book (or our personal Contacts) to a Teams team, or a contact group in Teams? -
Anonymous
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pls give access to groups - security groups or O365 goups
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Anonymous
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I have to now add 220 learners to Teams separately, seems ridiculous considering there could be an easy fix. Considering this thread starting in 2017...there has been more than enough time.
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Dovita Lobo
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While working a project - since it is a temporary team it would make sense to have this option rather than create a DL just for a one-time activity which then causes a delay.
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Dan
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When taking a conversation from email to Teams, there's no way to start a new chat. I tried copying the list of addressees from Outlook and pasting in with no success. I tried copying a list of names and pasting that in with likewise no success. Surprising that this wasn't available!
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Anonymous
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I got a list of 23 users to add to a Teams today. This is a one off need.
I was surprised to learn that I had to do this one by one.There is no point creating a distribution group for this as it is one time need.
Please make it that it is possible to add in this format email; email; emal ...
Thanks
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GLB
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This is a gap within the TEAMS architecture, and will limit the amount that I use TEAMS until WEBEX is removed from my company's communication platforms.
I have multiple CG's (Contact Groups) in my Outlook address list, many in excess of 60-75 people, and when I try and "transfer" these CG's to TEAMS, I end up having to manually add each email individually.
Please create a patch/worklet so that I can have TEAMS haul in my working groups from Outlook. -
Dave Palay
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I use Teams for internal training. We have a Team for "classes" and each channel is a different class. I need a way to take a list of usernames/emails and add them to the channel / team without entering them one at a time.
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Carsten Maßmann
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@Jay Singh - that is a joke, right?! :D :D :D
Of course, it can be done that way, but only nerds and geeks will continue to read your instructions past your word "powershell"! :DClearly, what is needed is a field in Teams, similar to the "add users field" in the SharePoint "share" menu, into which you can paste a long list of identities at once. This field should be "tolerant" in the way that it should help users to look for valid IDs in case they misspelled.
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mmi
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Can we give access to groups - security groups or O365 goups or Everyone in the organization. Save time to add them.
Thank you for listening :) -
Görkem Töre
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Hi,
Jay Singh's suggestion is not practical for many users.
An example of usage would be;To create channels / teams for virtual classroom trainings. In case of numerous trainings, it would be annoying to manually add users to teams. A practical mass user addition feature would be nice.
Thanks.
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Jay Singh
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You can upload with CSV format to Your teams by using powershell you don't need to manually enter it.
just open Powershell and install microsoft teams module using Install-module microsoftteams. After that connect to the teams portal using Connect-microsoftteams. And then use Get-Team | select groupid, display* to get your existing team list. Use this CSV template
Email.....
.....
andat last use this command, Import-Csv -Path "the location you saved your .csv file" | foreach{Add-TeamUser -GroupId GROUPID -user $_.Email}
For more information head to https://www.ntweekly.com/2020/03/14/add-multiple-users-to-a-microsoft-teams-team-using-powershell/
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Randy Richardson
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The ability to add distribution list in private channels is a must have. We have halted a major project due to the lack of this feature.
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Giancarlo
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I would also need the ability to add an AD Group (members) to a Private Channel.
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Anonymous
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teams need to have the ability to add a large group of people to a team- either a file upload or by including a list of email addresses (separated by semi-colon or comma
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Wyn Richards
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I have groups set up within Outlook which makes emailing them very easy. Could we have access to these groups from Outlook which would simplify the populating of new teams.
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Martin van Bellen
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Feedback: Most important features regarding this are:
(1) the ability to mass add users based on AD group
(2) the ability to mass add users that are already a member of an other team
Both of these would speed up the process significantly.
Thank you for your efforts. -
Anonymous
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Sounds like a great feature to have
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Anonymous
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definitely needed. Adhoc teams are often created for events and adding more than 10 - 100 users by hand becomes old real fast when you have to do it once a week.