Create channel

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Create a new channel in a team, as specified in the request body. When you create a channel, the maximum length of the channel's displayName is 50 characters. This is the name that appears to the user in Microsoft Teams.

If you're creating a private channel, you can add a maximum of 200 members.

Note

• Some special characters in the channel name will cause the Get filesFolder API to return an error. For details, see Known issues.
• When you create a private/shared channel, the SharePoint site might fail to provision. If the site fails to provision after 5 minutes, use the Get filesFolder API to trigger provisioning.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

This API supports admin permissions. Microsoft Teams service admins can access teams that they are not a member of.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	Channel.Create	Directory.ReadWrite.All, Group.ReadWrite.All
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Channel.Create.Group	Channel.Create, Directory.ReadWrite.All, Group.ReadWrite.All, Teamwork.Migrate.All

Note

• The Group.ReadWrite.All and Directory.ReadWrite.All permissions are supported only for backward compatibility. We recommend that you update your solutions to use an alternative permission listed in the previous table and avoid using these permissions going forward.
• The Channel.Create.Group permission uses resource-specific consent. In the future, Microsoft may require you or your customers to pay additional fees based on the amount of data imported using Teamwork.Migrate.All and/or migration APIs.

HTTP request

POST /teams/{team-id}/channels

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of channel object.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and a channel object in the response body for a channel with a membershipType value of standard or private. For a channel with a membershipType value of shared, this method returns a 202 Accepted response code and a link to the teamsAsyncOperation.

Examples

Example 1: Create a standard channel

Request

The following example shows a request to create a standard channel.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5/channels
Content-type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "Architecture Discussion",
  "description": "This channel is where we debate all future architecture plans",
  "membershipType": "standard"
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new Channel
{
	DisplayName = "Architecture Discussion",
	Description = "This channel is where we debate all future architecture plans",
	MembershipType = ChannelMembershipType.Standard,
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Teams["{team-id}"].Channels.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc teams channels create --team-id {team-id} --body '{\
  "displayName": "Architecture Discussion",\
  "description": "This channel is where we debate all future architecture plans",\
  "membershipType": "standard"\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewChannel()
displayName := "Architecture Discussion"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
description := "This channel is where we debate all future architecture plans"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 
membershipType := graphmodels.STANDARD_CHANNELMEMBERSHIPTYPE 
requestBody.SetMembershipType(&membershipType) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
channels, err := graphClient.Teams().ByTeamId("team-id").Channels().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

Channel channel = new Channel();
channel.setDisplayName("Architecture Discussion");
channel.setDescription("This channel is where we debate all future architecture plans");
channel.setMembershipType(ChannelMembershipType.Standard);
Channel result = graphClient.teams().byTeamId("{team-id}").channels().post(channel);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const channel = {
  displayName: 'Architecture Discussion',
  description: 'This channel is where we debate all future architecture plans',
  membershipType: 'standard'
};

await client.api('/teams/57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5/channels')
	.post(channel);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\Channel;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ChannelMembershipType;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new Channel();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Architecture Discussion');
$requestBody->setDescription('This channel is where we debate all future architecture plans');
$requestBody->setMembershipType(new ChannelMembershipType('standard'));

$result = $graphServiceClient->teams()->byTeamId('team-id')->channels()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Teams

$params = @{
	displayName = "Architecture Discussion"
	description = "This channel is where we debate all future architecture plans"
	membershipType = "standard"
}

New-MgTeamChannel -TeamId $teamId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.channel import Channel
from msgraph.generated.models.channel_membership_type import ChannelMembershipType
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = Channel(
	display_name = "Architecture Discussion",
	description = "This channel is where we debate all future architecture plans",
	membership_type = ChannelMembershipType.Standard,
)

result = await graph_client.teams.by_team_id('team-id').channels.post(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
  "id": "19:4b6bed8d24574f6a9e436813cb2617d8@thread.tacv2",
  "displayName": "Architecture Discussion",
  "description": "This channel is where we debate all future architecture plans"
}

Example 2: Create private channel on behalf of user

Request

The following example shows a request to create a private channel and add a user as an team owner.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5/channels
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Graph.channel",
  "membershipType": "private",
  "displayName": "My First Private Channel",
  "description": "This is my first private channels",
  "members":
     [
        {
           "@odata.type":"#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
           "user@odata.bind":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('62855810-484b-4823-9e01-60667f8b12ae')",
           "roles":["owner"]
        }
     ]
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new Channel
{
	OdataType = "#Microsoft.Graph.channel",
	MembershipType = ChannelMembershipType.Private,
	DisplayName = "My First Private Channel",
	Description = "This is my first private channels",
	Members = new List<ConversationMember>
	{
		new AadUserConversationMember
		{
			OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
			Roles = new List<string>
			{
				"owner",
			},
			AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
			{
				{
					"user@odata.bind" , "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('62855810-484b-4823-9e01-60667f8b12ae')"
				},
			},
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Teams["{team-id}"].Channels.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc teams channels create --team-id {team-id} --body '{\
  "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Graph.channel",\
  "membershipType": "private",\
  "displayName": "My First Private Channel",\
  "description": "This is my first private channels",\
  "members":\
     [\
        {\
           "@odata.type":"#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",\
           "user@odata.bind":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('62855810-484b-4823-9e01-60667f8b12ae')",\
           "roles":["owner"]\
        }\
     ]\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewChannel()
membershipType := graphmodels.PRIVATE_CHANNELMEMBERSHIPTYPE 
requestBody.SetMembershipType(&membershipType) 
displayName := "My First Private Channel"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
description := "This is my first private channels"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 


conversationMember := graphmodels.NewAadUserConversationMember()
roles := []string {
	"owner",
}
conversationMember.SetRoles(roles)
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
	"user@odata.bind" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('62855810-484b-4823-9e01-60667f8b12ae')", 
}
conversationMember.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)

members := []graphmodels.ConversationMemberable {
	conversationMember,
}
requestBody.SetMembers(members)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
channels, err := graphClient.Teams().ByTeamId("team-id").Channels().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

Channel channel = new Channel();
channel.setOdataType("#Microsoft.Graph.channel");
channel.setMembershipType(ChannelMembershipType.Private);
channel.setDisplayName("My First Private Channel");
channel.setDescription("This is my first private channels");
LinkedList<ConversationMember> members = new LinkedList<ConversationMember>();
AadUserConversationMember conversationMember = new AadUserConversationMember();
conversationMember.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember");
LinkedList<String> roles = new LinkedList<String>();
roles.add("owner");
conversationMember.setRoles(roles);
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
additionalData.put("user@odata.bind", "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('62855810-484b-4823-9e01-60667f8b12ae')");
conversationMember.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
members.add(conversationMember);
channel.setMembers(members);
Channel result = graphClient.teams().byTeamId("{team-id}").channels().post(channel);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const channel = {
  '@odata.type': '#Microsoft.Graph.channel',
  membershipType: 'private',
  displayName: 'My First Private Channel',
  description: 'This is my first private channels',
  members: 
     [
        {
           '@odata.type':'#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember',
           'user@odata.bind':'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users(\'62855810-484b-4823-9e01-60667f8b12ae\')',
           roles: ['owner']
        }
     ]
};

await client.api('/teams/57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5/channels')
	.post(channel);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\Channel;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ChannelMembershipType;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ConversationMember;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\AadUserConversationMember;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new Channel();
$requestBody->setOdataType('#Microsoft.Graph.channel');
$requestBody->setMembershipType(new ChannelMembershipType('private'));
$requestBody->setDisplayName('My First Private Channel');
$requestBody->setDescription('This is my first private channels');
$membersConversationMember1 = new AadUserConversationMember();
$membersConversationMember1->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember');
$membersConversationMember1->setRoles(['owner', 	]);
$additionalData = [
	'user@odata.bind' => 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users(\'62855810-484b-4823-9e01-60667f8b12ae\')',
];
$membersConversationMember1->setAdditionalData($additionalData);
$membersArray []= $membersConversationMember1;
$requestBody->setMembers($membersArray);


$result = $graphServiceClient->teams()->byTeamId('team-id')->channels()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Teams

$params = @{
	"@odata.type" = "#Microsoft.Graph.channel"
	membershipType = "private"
	displayName = "My First Private Channel"
	description = "This is my first private channels"
	members = @(
		@{
			"@odata.type" = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember"
			"user@odata.bind" = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('62855810-484b-4823-9e01-60667f8b12ae')"
			roles = @(
			"owner"
		)
	}
)
}

New-MgTeamChannel -TeamId $teamId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.channel import Channel
from msgraph.generated.models.channel_membership_type import ChannelMembershipType
from msgraph.generated.models.conversation_member import ConversationMember
from msgraph.generated.models.aad_user_conversation_member import AadUserConversationMember
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = Channel(
	odata_type = "#Microsoft.Graph.channel",
	membership_type = ChannelMembershipType.Private,
	display_name = "My First Private Channel",
	description = "This is my first private channels",
	members = [
		AadUserConversationMember(
			odata_type = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
			roles = [
				"owner",
			],
			additional_data = {
					"user@odata_bind" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('62855810-484b-4823-9e01-60667f8b12ae')",
			}
		),
	],
)

result = await graph_client.teams.by_team_id('team-id').channels.post(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Note: To add a guest account to the channel, for the roles property, use the value guest.

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#teams('57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5')/channels/$entity",
    "id": "19:33b76eea88574bd1969dca37e2b7a819@thread.skype",
    "displayName": "My First Private Channel",
    "description": "This is my first private channels",
    "isFavoriteByDefault": null,
    "email": "",
    "webUrl": "https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19:33b76eea88574bd1969dca37e2b7a819@thread.skype/My%20First%20Private%20Channel?groupId=57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5&tenantId=0fddfdc5-f319-491f-a514-be1bc1bf9ddc",
    "membershipType": "private"
}

Example 3: Create a channel in migration mode

Request

The following example shows how to create a channel that will be used for importing messages.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5/channels
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "@microsoft.graph.channelCreationMode": "migration",
  "displayName": "Import_150958_99z",
  "description": "Import_150958_99z",
  "createdDateTime": "2020-03-14T11:22:17.067Z"
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new Channel
{
	DisplayName = "Import_150958_99z",
	Description = "Import_150958_99z",
	CreatedDateTime = DateTimeOffset.Parse("2020-03-14T11:22:17.067Z"),
	AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
	{
		{
			"@microsoft.graph.channelCreationMode" , "migration"
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Teams["{team-id}"].Channels.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc teams channels create --team-id {team-id} --body '{\
  "@microsoft.graph.channelCreationMode": "migration",\
  "displayName": "Import_150958_99z",\
  "description": "Import_150958_99z",\
  "createdDateTime": "2020-03-14T11:22:17.067Z"\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  "time"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewChannel()
displayName := "Import_150958_99z"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
description := "Import_150958_99z"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 
createdDateTime , err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339, "2020-03-14T11:22:17.067Z")
requestBody.SetCreatedDateTime(&createdDateTime) 
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
	"@microsoft.graph.channelCreationMode" : "migration", 
}
requestBody.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
channels, err := graphClient.Teams().ByTeamId("team-id").Channels().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

Channel channel = new Channel();
channel.setDisplayName("Import_150958_99z");
channel.setDescription("Import_150958_99z");
OffsetDateTime createdDateTime = OffsetDateTime.parse("2020-03-14T11:22:17.067Z");
channel.setCreatedDateTime(createdDateTime);
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
additionalData.put("@microsoft.graph.channelCreationMode", "migration");
channel.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
Channel result = graphClient.teams().byTeamId("{team-id}").channels().post(channel);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const channel = {
  '@microsoft.graph.channelCreationMode': 'migration',
  displayName: 'Import_150958_99z',
  description: 'Import_150958_99z',
  createdDateTime: '2020-03-14T11:22:17.067Z'
};

await client.api('/teams/57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5/channels')
	.post(channel);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\Channel;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new Channel();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Import_150958_99z');
$requestBody->setDescription('Import_150958_99z');
$requestBody->setCreatedDateTime(new \DateTime('2020-03-14T11:22:17.067Z'));
$additionalData = [
	'@microsoft.graph.channelCreationMode' => 'migration',
];
$requestBody->setAdditionalData($additionalData);

$result = $graphServiceClient->teams()->byTeamId('team-id')->channels()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Teams

$params = @{
	"@microsoft.graph.channelCreationMode" = "migration"
	displayName = "Import_150958_99z"
	description = "Import_150958_99z"
	createdDateTime = [System.DateTime]::Parse("2020-03-14T11:22:17.067Z")
}

New-MgTeamChannel -TeamId $teamId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.channel import Channel
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = Channel(
	display_name = "Import_150958_99z",
	description = "Import_150958_99z",
	created_date_time = "2020-03-14T11:22:17.067Z",
	additional_data = {
			"@microsoft_graph_channel_creation_mode" : "migration",
	}
)

result = await graph_client.teams.by_team_id('team-id').channels.post(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response. The Content-Location header in the response specifies the path to the channel that is being provisioned. Once provisioned, this channel can be used for importing messages.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Location: /teams('57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5')/channels('19:4b6bed8d24574f6a9e436813cb2617d8@thread.tacv2')

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#teams('57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5')/channels/$entity",
    "id": "19:987c7a9fbe6447ccb3ea31bcded5c75c@thread.tacv2",
    "createdDateTime": null,
    "displayName": "Import_150958_99z",
    "description": "Import_150958_99z",
    "isFavoriteByDefault": null,
    "email": null,
    "webUrl": null,
    "membershipType": null,
    "moderationSettings": null
}

Example 4: Create private channel on behalf of user using user principal name

Request

The following example shows a request to create a private channel and add a user as a team owner.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5/channels
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Graph.channel",
  "membershipType": "private",
  "displayName": "My First Private Channel",
  "description": "This is my first private channels",
  "members":
     [
        {
           "@odata.type":"#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
           "user@odata.bind":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('jacob@contoso.com')",
           "roles":["owner"]
        }
     ]
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new Channel
{
	OdataType = "#Microsoft.Graph.channel",
	MembershipType = ChannelMembershipType.Private,
	DisplayName = "My First Private Channel",
	Description = "This is my first private channels",
	Members = new List<ConversationMember>
	{
		new AadUserConversationMember
		{
			OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
			Roles = new List<string>
			{
				"owner",
			},
			AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
			{
				{
					"user@odata.bind" , "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('jacob@contoso.com')"
				},
			},
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Teams["{team-id}"].Channels.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc teams channels create --team-id {team-id} --body '{\
  "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Graph.channel",\
  "membershipType": "private",\
  "displayName": "My First Private Channel",\
  "description": "This is my first private channels",\
  "members":\
     [\
        {\
           "@odata.type":"#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",\
           "user@odata.bind":"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('jacob@contoso.com')",\
           "roles":["owner"]\
        }\
     ]\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewChannel()
membershipType := graphmodels.PRIVATE_CHANNELMEMBERSHIPTYPE 
requestBody.SetMembershipType(&membershipType) 
displayName := "My First Private Channel"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
description := "This is my first private channels"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 


conversationMember := graphmodels.NewAadUserConversationMember()
roles := []string {
	"owner",
}
conversationMember.SetRoles(roles)
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
	"user@odata.bind" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('jacob@contoso.com')", 
}
conversationMember.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)

members := []graphmodels.ConversationMemberable {
	conversationMember,
}
requestBody.SetMembers(members)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
channels, err := graphClient.Teams().ByTeamId("team-id").Channels().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

Channel channel = new Channel();
channel.setOdataType("#Microsoft.Graph.channel");
channel.setMembershipType(ChannelMembershipType.Private);
channel.setDisplayName("My First Private Channel");
channel.setDescription("This is my first private channels");
LinkedList<ConversationMember> members = new LinkedList<ConversationMember>();
AadUserConversationMember conversationMember = new AadUserConversationMember();
conversationMember.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember");
LinkedList<String> roles = new LinkedList<String>();
roles.add("owner");
conversationMember.setRoles(roles);
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
additionalData.put("user@odata.bind", "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('jacob@contoso.com')");
conversationMember.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
members.add(conversationMember);
channel.setMembers(members);
Channel result = graphClient.teams().byTeamId("{team-id}").channels().post(channel);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const channel = {
  '@odata.type': '#Microsoft.Graph.channel',
  membershipType: 'private',
  displayName: 'My First Private Channel',
  description: 'This is my first private channels',
  members: 
     [
        {
           '@odata.type':'#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember',
           'user@odata.bind':'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users(\'jacob@contoso.com\')',
           roles: ['owner']
        }
     ]
};

await client.api('/teams/57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5/channels')
	.post(channel);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\Channel;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ChannelMembershipType;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ConversationMember;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\AadUserConversationMember;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new Channel();
$requestBody->setOdataType('#Microsoft.Graph.channel');
$requestBody->setMembershipType(new ChannelMembershipType('private'));
$requestBody->setDisplayName('My First Private Channel');
$requestBody->setDescription('This is my first private channels');
$membersConversationMember1 = new AadUserConversationMember();
$membersConversationMember1->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember');
$membersConversationMember1->setRoles(['owner', 	]);
$additionalData = [
	'user@odata.bind' => 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users(\'jacob@contoso.com\')',
];
$membersConversationMember1->setAdditionalData($additionalData);
$membersArray []= $membersConversationMember1;
$requestBody->setMembers($membersArray);


$result = $graphServiceClient->teams()->byTeamId('team-id')->channels()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Teams

$params = @{
	"@odata.type" = "#Microsoft.Graph.channel"
	membershipType = "private"
	displayName = "My First Private Channel"
	description = "This is my first private channels"
	members = @(
		@{
			"@odata.type" = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember"
			"user@odata.bind" = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('jacob@contoso.com')"
			roles = @(
			"owner"
		)
	}
)
}

New-MgTeamChannel -TeamId $teamId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.channel import Channel
from msgraph.generated.models.channel_membership_type import ChannelMembershipType
from msgraph.generated.models.conversation_member import ConversationMember
from msgraph.generated.models.aad_user_conversation_member import AadUserConversationMember
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = Channel(
	odata_type = "#Microsoft.Graph.channel",
	membership_type = ChannelMembershipType.Private,
	display_name = "My First Private Channel",
	description = "This is my first private channels",
	members = [
		AadUserConversationMember(
			odata_type = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
			roles = [
				"owner",
			],
			additional_data = {
					"user@odata_bind" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('jacob@contoso.com')",
			}
		),
	],
)

result = await graph_client.teams.by_team_id('team-id').channels.post(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Note: To add a guest account to the channel, for the roles property, use the value guest.

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#teams('57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5')/channels/$entity",
    "id": "19:33b76eea88574bd1969dca37e2b7a819@thread.skype",
    "displayName": "My First Private Channel",
    "description": "This is my first private channels",
    "isFavoriteByDefault": null,
    "email": "",
    "webUrl": "https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19:33b76eea88574bd1969dca37e2b7a819@thread.skype/My%20First%20Private%20Channel?groupId=57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5&tenantId=0fddfdc5-f319-491f-a514-be1bc1bf9ddc",
    "membershipType": "private"
}

Example 5: Create a shared channel on behalf of a user

Request

The following example shows how to create a shared channel.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5/channels
Content-type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "My First Shared Channel",
  "description": "This is my first shared channel",
  "membershipType": "shared",
  "members": [
    {
      "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
      "user@odata.bind": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('7640023f-fe43-573f-9ff4-84a9efe4acd6')",
      "roles": [
        "owner"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new Channel
{
	DisplayName = "My First Shared Channel",
	Description = "This is my first shared channel",
	MembershipType = ChannelMembershipType.Shared,
	Members = new List<ConversationMember>
	{
		new AadUserConversationMember
		{
			OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
			Roles = new List<string>
			{
				"owner",
			},
			AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
			{
				{
					"user@odata.bind" , "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('7640023f-fe43-573f-9ff4-84a9efe4acd6')"
				},
			},
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Teams["{team-id}"].Channels.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc teams channels create --team-id {team-id} --body '{\
  "displayName": "My First Shared Channel",\
  "description": "This is my first shared channel",\
  "membershipType": "shared",\
  "members": [\
    {\
      "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",\
      "user@odata.bind": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('7640023f-fe43-573f-9ff4-84a9efe4acd6')",\
      "roles": [\
        "owner"\
      ]\
    }\
  ]\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewChannel()
displayName := "My First Shared Channel"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
description := "This is my first shared channel"
requestBody.SetDescription(&description) 
membershipType := graphmodels.SHARED_CHANNELMEMBERSHIPTYPE 
requestBody.SetMembershipType(&membershipType) 


conversationMember := graphmodels.NewAadUserConversationMember()
roles := []string {
	"owner",
}
conversationMember.SetRoles(roles)
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
	"user@odata.bind" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('7640023f-fe43-573f-9ff4-84a9efe4acd6')", 
}
conversationMember.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)

members := []graphmodels.ConversationMemberable {
	conversationMember,
}
requestBody.SetMembers(members)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
channels, err := graphClient.Teams().ByTeamId("team-id").Channels().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

Channel channel = new Channel();
channel.setDisplayName("My First Shared Channel");
channel.setDescription("This is my first shared channel");
channel.setMembershipType(ChannelMembershipType.Shared);
LinkedList<ConversationMember> members = new LinkedList<ConversationMember>();
AadUserConversationMember conversationMember = new AadUserConversationMember();
conversationMember.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember");
LinkedList<String> roles = new LinkedList<String>();
roles.add("owner");
conversationMember.setRoles(roles);
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
additionalData.put("user@odata.bind", "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('7640023f-fe43-573f-9ff4-84a9efe4acd6')");
conversationMember.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
members.add(conversationMember);
channel.setMembers(members);
Channel result = graphClient.teams().byTeamId("{team-id}").channels().post(channel);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const channel = {
  displayName: 'My First Shared Channel',
  description: 'This is my first shared channel',
  membershipType: 'shared',
  members: [
    {
      '@odata.type': '#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember',
      'user@odata.bind': 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users(\'7640023f-fe43-573f-9ff4-84a9efe4acd6\')',
      roles: [
        'owner'
      ]
    }
  ]
};

await client.api('/teams/57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5/channels')
	.post(channel);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\Channel;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ChannelMembershipType;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ConversationMember;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\AadUserConversationMember;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new Channel();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('My First Shared Channel');
$requestBody->setDescription('This is my first shared channel');
$requestBody->setMembershipType(new ChannelMembershipType('shared'));
$membersConversationMember1 = new AadUserConversationMember();
$membersConversationMember1->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember');
$membersConversationMember1->setRoles(['owner', 	]);
$additionalData = [
	'user@odata.bind' => 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users(\'7640023f-fe43-573f-9ff4-84a9efe4acd6\')',
];
$membersConversationMember1->setAdditionalData($additionalData);
$membersArray []= $membersConversationMember1;
$requestBody->setMembers($membersArray);


$result = $graphServiceClient->teams()->byTeamId('team-id')->channels()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Teams

$params = @{
	displayName = "My First Shared Channel"
	description = "This is my first shared channel"
	membershipType = "shared"
	members = @(
		@{
			"@odata.type" = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember"
			"user@odata.bind" = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('7640023f-fe43-573f-9ff4-84a9efe4acd6')"
			roles = @(
			"owner"
		)
	}
)
}

New-MgTeamChannel -TeamId $teamId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.channel import Channel
from msgraph.generated.models.channel_membership_type import ChannelMembershipType
from msgraph.generated.models.conversation_member import ConversationMember
from msgraph.generated.models.aad_user_conversation_member import AadUserConversationMember
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = Channel(
	display_name = "My First Shared Channel",
	description = "This is my first shared channel",
	membership_type = ChannelMembershipType.Shared,
	members = [
		AadUserConversationMember(
			odata_type = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
			roles = [
				"owner",
			],
			additional_data = {
					"user@odata_bind" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('7640023f-fe43-573f-9ff4-84a9efe4acd6')",
			}
		),
	],
)

result = await graph_client.teams.by_team_id('team-id').channels.post(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Note: To add a guest account to the channel, for the roles property, use the value guest.

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Location: /teams/7640023f-fe43-4cc7-9bd3-84a9efe4acd6/operations/359d75f6-2bb8-4785-ab2d-377bf3d573fa
Content-Length: 0

Example 7: Create a shared channel shared with host team

Request

The following example shows how to create a shared channel shared with host team.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5/channels
Content-type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "My First Shared Channel",
  "description": "This is my first shared channel",
  "membershipType": "shared",
  "members": [
    {
      "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
      "user@odata.bind": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/users('7640023f-fe43-573f-9ff4-84a9efe4acd6')",
      "roles": [
        "owner"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sharedWithTeams":[
    {
      "id": "57fb72d0-d811-46f4-8947-305e6072eaa5"
    }
  ]
}

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Location: /teams/7640023f-fe43-4cc7-9bd3-84a9efe4acd6/operations/359d75f6-2bb8-4785-ab2d-377bf3d573fa
Content-Length: 0

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