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.
458 comments
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Boris
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Look at how Zoom manages breakout with hosts and co host options, example, grab groups of 50- 200 people from a 1000 person session into smaller breakout sessions, move them back in later, also guests should be able join breakout sessions. It has to be an easy manageable feature too. Zoom has these features already for a couple of years it should be in the basics of any collaboration design from the start nowadays.
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Peter Heller
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Could you expand the UserInviteTemplate.csv to have extended user attributes for the bulk import from the set user attributes in PowerShell?
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Anonymous
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The following powershell script works well to "Mass add" users to a team
param(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][String]$CsvFile,
[String]$Encoding="Unicode",
[String]$Delimiter=";",
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][String]$MailNickName
)
Install-Module MicrosoftTeams
Write-Host "`nConnecting to Microsoft Teams..."
$msteamsinfo=Connect-MicrosoftTeams
Write-Host "`nWelcome" $msteamsinfo.Account.Id
Write-host "`nGetting the Team with MailNickname=$MailNickName"
$team=Get-Team -MailNickName $MailNickName
Write-Host "`nImportint the CSV file $CsvFile`n"
$users=Import-Csv $CsvFile -Encoding $Encoding -Delimiter $Delimiter
foreach ($user in $users) {
Write-Host "Adding" $user.Email "to $MailNickName"
Add-TeamUser -GroupId $team.GroupId -user $user.Email
}Save as e.g. MassAddTeamUsers.ps1
run from powershell as:
.\MassAddTeamUsers.ps1 -CsvFile .\<my course csv file> -MailNickName <my course nick name>
The first line in the CSV file must contain one column heading with "Email".
I have created MailNickName(s) for my Teams as they are easier to remember than GroupId(s)
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Anonymous
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Yes, please add this. Maybe show a list of all student office 365 accounts with check boxes next to each and a check all button too.
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John
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Make it like Yammer and allow an upload of a CSV file with a list of email addresses.
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Carly
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If I want to send an email in Outlook to hundreds of people, I can copy the emails in Excel and paste them into the BCC. It should be that easy to add people to a team: copy and paste. Instead, I have to add names one by one.
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Bill D. Herman
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Do what the thousands and thousands of users have explicitly asked! The lack of this feature is terrible engineering bordering on malpractice. If you're trying to prevent spam, you could at least let us bulk add people from our own organization!
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Christi B
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As a middle school teacher, I have 100+ students I need to add. I would love to be able to add multiple users at a time. This would save a significant amount of time. I currently use an excel file and split-screen and I copy and paste names one by one. All teachers would benefit from having this feature. It would prevent issues of students not being able to login with the link or help with limiting the navigation between link in canvas to TEAMS. We need an smooth way to connect students quickly.
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Anonymous
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Adding option to Teams group in Teams app directly so user can add manually multiple users using csv or similar
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Adam Dowell
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Please add this feature. I'd like to copy a list of email addresses into a MS Teams invite just like I can do in an Outlook email
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Curt
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Bulk adding of users should be base-functionality of creating any group in any software. Please add this ASAP!
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Daleon
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Definitely necessary to be able to manage private channel users.
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Beth
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Specifically the ability to pull in Outlook email distribution lists into chat and teams would be wonderful!
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Anonymous
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I regularly have to add a set of a few dozen people as members to a Team. Usually I have a list of their email addresses and SharePoint, I would just paste in the email addresses (; separated) i the 'New user' field. But that does not work in Teams: I have to add them one by one via the 'Add member' button. Many of our Teams owners have asked for this as well when they set up a new Team or welcome a larger group of new colleagues; they can hardly believe me when I tell them there is no other way at this point. Please give us the option to paste in a list of email addressen in the user interface (no PowerShell; it has to work for "innocent" Team owner)
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Bobby Wong
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It says that we can add members through a group created in office 365 admin. However, I created groups from Active directory and from Microsoft 365 admin center. I can see the groups in Microsoft 365 admin center but none of them can be found when I tried to add members in a team.
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Michael White
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This would be very helpful when we create meetings in a channel. Currently, upon creating the meeting, only those that get invited actually have time scheduled on their calendar. Creating a meeting in a channel should either A) Auto-invite the entire channel/team, B) Auto-pull the event to their calendars so they can see an event is happening in a channel/team they are subscribed to, or C) allow us to @team or @channel from the event invite.
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Ginny
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Definitely need this! I'm creating Teams now with 100 members...taking forever without a way to do it in bulk
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Kim
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Every time we kick off a new project we are adding 30-40 internal and external users to a team, and then sub-dividing into appropriate channels. Being able to do this through an excel spreadsheet or CSV would be a huge time saver.
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DG
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Please add the function to add someone to multiple sites/private channels at once. I use Teams for staff support in a university and it's a pain when I have to add someone one by one to all the sites/channels. Thanks.
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James Tate
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There needs to be a way to bulk-add names to teams. A CSV upload would be ok, but simply being able to paste multiple email addresses would be ideal.