How to use PowerShell to create a lot of Teams in Microsoft Teams?

Question

Dear Microsoft employee,

I am consultant for Schouten & Nelissen regarding Microsoft Teams. These days we have a lot of work in creating all these different Teams. My question is whether it's possible to do this a lot quicker through the use of PowerShell. Could you help me any further?

With kind regards,

Bram Tanis

Answer 1

Define "a lot quicker"? :) You can certainly use the Teams PowerShell module and the New-Team cmdlet, but you're probably better off using the Graph API directly, and utilizing the templates functionality as well: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/get-started-with-teams-templates

Answer 2

@Bram Tanis ,

As we are mainly responsible for general question of Microsoft Teams, your question related to scripts is not supported by us. I will add office-teams-windows-itpro tag. Thanks for your understanding.

Satyajit Paul provides a script which should be executed in a Windows machine, with the Teams creation instructions being read from an csv file.

Above all, create a csv file including the details for teams, such as Team name, Team description, Visibility and owner of the team.
Then, refer to the following script:

 #Connnect to Microsoft Teams  
 $connection = Connect-MicrosoftTeams  
 try  
 {  
     #CSV File Path. Change this location accordingly  
     $filePath = "C:\Users\Satya\Desktop\CreateBulkTeams.csv"  
      
     #read the input file  
     $loadFile = Import-Csv -Path $filePath   
      
     foreach ($row in $loadFile)  
     {  
         $teamName = $row.'Team name'  
         $teamDescription = $row.'Team description'  
         $teamOwner = $row.Owner  
         $teamVisibility = $row.Visibility  
      
         #create the team with specified parameters  
         $groupID = New-Team -DisplayName $teamName -Owner $teamOwner -Description $teamDescription -Visibility $teamVisibility  
         Write-Host "Team " $teamName " created successfully..."  
     }    
      
     Write-Host $loadFile.Count " teams were created" -ForegroundColor Green -BackgroundColor Black   
 }  
  
 

catch  
 {  
       Write-Host "An error occurred:"  
       Write-Host $_  
 }  

For more details, please refer to this article.

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