Teams Administration: Powershell & Admin Center

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1/17/2024

This article outlines the steps to manage Microsoft Teams from powershell and admin center.

Download

We need to download the Microsoft Teams Module from the powershell Gallery

Install-Module -Name MicrosoftTeams -RequiredVersion 0.9.0

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Verify if the module is installed

Get-Module MicrosoftTeams -ListAvailable

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Connect to Microsoft Teams

Connect-MicrosoftTeams -Credential $cred

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To view the teams

Get-Team

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To view Team Guest Settings and Team Fun settings

Get-TeamGuestSettings

Get-TeamFunSettings

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List of team commands available as of now

Get-Command -Module *teams*

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To create new Team

New-Team -DisplayName TeamName -Description GiveDescription -AccessType private -AddcreatorasMember:$false

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Unfortunately Add-TeamUser is not available for bulk operation as of now. Microsoft will release them in near future very soon from teams module.

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Bulk adding/removing the associated group unified group for that team is not populating the users to the Team immediately. The Microsoft Teams PowerShell module is based on Microsoft Graph.This is because of the Microsoft Graph SLA is 24 hours to replicate and synchronize any changes done from azure AD.

Below command can be used to bulk add the users to associated teams group.

Import-Csv D:\Teams\Test.csv | % {Add-AzureAdGroupMember -ObjectID mentionobjectid -Refobjectid $_.objectid}

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Below command can be used to bulk remove the users to associated teams group.

Import-Csv D:\Teams\Test.csv | % {Remove-AzureAdGroupMember -ObjectID mentionobjectid -Refobjectid $_.objectid}

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The same action can be performed via unified group as well.

Import-Csv E:\Teams\T1.csv | % {Add-UnifiedGroupLinks -Identity T1 -LinkType Members -Links $_.userprincipalname}

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Now the new admin center for Microsoft Teams and SFB have options to manage MS teams

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Adding and updating locations data

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Following options are available from end users options in MS Teams

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Following meeting policies to control the features are available

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Following org wide settings are available

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We have the meeting customization settings

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Option to customize the real time media traffic to online is also available

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Controlling the live event policies is present

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Global user level policies can be enforced

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Controlling external access

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We have option to control the guest access settings

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We have very nice option to have email integration, File sharing option and show organization tab to end users.

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Skype for business Interop, search and Bots feature can be customized.

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We have the teams upgrade options which have island mode set by default.

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After this we have the Call quality dashboard and first line worker configuration as a last option.

The First line worker configuration will be removed and will not be available after october 2019 according to Microsoft . All these features available in first line worker configuration are available in MS Teams and customer needs to shift to MS teams.

Above are the list of administrative options available for Microsoft Teams as of now and they will be definitely changing and adding more new features since Microsoft is more focused on enhancing and bringing new features in Microsoft teams.

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