Manage Teams with Microsoft Teams PowerShell

• Applies to:

  Microsoft Teams

This article shows you how to use Microsoft Teams PowerShell to manage Teams.

Use this guidance in conjunction with the Microsoft Teams cmdlet reference.

To manage Teams in the Teams admin center, see Manage Teams with Azure Cloud Shell.

Create and manage teams using PowerShell

The cmdlets for creating and managing teams are in the Microsoft Teams PowerShell module.

Teams are backed by Office 365 Groups, so when you create a team, you create a group. There are a set of cmdlets provided for operating on the core team and its settings (new-team, get-team, set-team), managing team users (add-teamuser, remove-teamuser), as well as cmdlets for managing the channels of the team (new-teamchannel, remove-teamchannel). All of these cmdlets can be run as end users, but they'll work only on the teams that you own or are a member of. If you are a Global Admin or Teams Administrator, you'll be able to act on all teams in your organization.

New-Team -DisplayName "Contoso Marketing" -Description "Collaboration space for Contoso's Marketing department"

Note

The GroupId used in the Microsoft Teams PowerShell module cmdlets is the same as the Identity property returned by Get-UnifiedGroup in the Exchange PowerShell module.

Manage Teams with Azure Cloud Shell

Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell that lets you manage your resources. For more information on Cloud Shell, see Azure Cloud Shell.

To access the Azure Cloud Shell and use PowerShell to manage Teams, sign in to the Teams admin center.

1. Select the Cloud Shell icon in the top right corner.

   

2. When prompted, choose PowerShell.

   

3. Run the following command to start a Teams PowerShell session:

   Connect-MicrosoftTeams
   

After you've completed these steps, you're ready to run Teams PowerShell commands.

Important

If you want to use Cs* cmdlets, you first need to connect to Teams by using the Connect-MicrosoftTeams -UseDeviceAuthentication command.

Manage policies via PowerShell

Find the cmdlets for managing policies in the Microsoft Teams cmdlet module.

A policy is a group of settings that can be applied granularly to individual users. Each policy type has its own set of cmdlets for creating, viewing, deleting, and updating the policies themselves, and then assigning those policies to users. The general structure is:

• GET commands (for example, Get-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy): Returns the policy documents that are available for you to assign in your organization, including the policies created by Microsoft for you to use as well as the custom policies you’ve created.

  • To find only the custom policies you’ve created in your organization, use -Filter "tag:*".

• NEW commands (for example, New-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy): Creates new policies for your organization to assign to users in your organization. Not all policies support the creation of custom policies. Often this is to ensure that the policies you use in your organization have a supported combination of settings.

• SET commands (for example, Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy): Sets particular values on a given policy. Some policies don't have SET commands available, or they contain parameters that can't be customized in the policy. The PowerShell descriptions tell you which parameters can't be customized.

  • To edit the policy that will by default be assigned to users in your organization who do not have a custom policy assigned, run Set-Cs<PolicyName> -Identity Global.

• REMOVE commands (for example, Remove-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy): Deletes a custom policy that has been created in your tenant. If you delete a custom policy that has been assigned to at least one user in your organization, that user will fall back to the global policy.

  • You can’t actually remove the global policy in your organization, but if you want to reset the global policy in your organization to the Microsoft-provided default settings, run Remove-Cs<PolicyName> -Identity Global.

• GRANT command (for example, Grant-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy): Assigns a policy to a particular user.

  • To remove a custom policy assignment and make the user fall back to the default policy in your organization, run Grant-Cs<PolicyName> -Identity <User Identity> -PolicyName $null.

Tip

Not all policies allow custom policies to be created, and some policies have settings that you can’t customize (so you can view the setting but can’t set a custom value during set- and new-). The documentation for each cmdlet calls out whether parameters are available for use by customers.

Common parameters:

• Identity: For Get-, Set-, New-, and Remove-, the Identity parameter will always refer to a specific policy instance. For Grant, the Identity parameter refers to a specific user object to whom the policy is being applied.

Manage configurations via PowerShell

Find the cmdlets for managing your configuration in the Microsoft Teams cmdlet module.

Configurations are buckets of settings maintained in the service that can't be specified at a user level. Settings always apply across the whole organization. Your global configuration is the only effective configuration in your organization. Each configuration type comes with two primary cmdlets:

• Get-Cs<ConfigurationName> (for example, Get-CsTeamsClientConfiguration):

• SET commands (for example, Set-CsTeamsClientConfiguration): set properties in the configuration of that type. Specify the parameters that you want to modify.

  Note

  You can reference the configuration that you’re modifying in one of two ways: by specifying -Identity Global, or by running Get-Cs<ConfigurationName> | Set-Cs<ConfigurationName>.

What can each admin role do?

Read Use Microsoft Teams admin roles to manage Teams to understand which admin roles can run each PowerShell cmdlet.

Related topics

Installing Teams PowerShell

Teams PowerShell Release Notes

Teams cmdlet reference

Use Teams admin roles to manage Teams