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Microsoft has just released the long awaited powershell module for Microsoft Teams in release 0.90 Beta. Administrators can now manage and automate their Microsoft Teams Teams 🙂 using this Module.

The module is located at PowershellGallery.com, and below are the steps to install.

https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/MicrosoftTeams/0.9.0

1. Using powershell V5 it includes the PowershellGet Module which will connect to the PowershellGallery, here you can search and install modules.
2. To search Powershell Gallery for Microsoft Teams type:

   Find-Module *Teams

   

3. We’ve connected to the PowershellGallery.com and found that there is a module called MicrosoftTeams
4. Save the Module to the location of your choice type:

   Save-Module MicrosoftTeams -Path C:\dev\MSTeams

5. To install the downloaded module type:

   Install-Module MicrosoftTeams

6. Once the module is installed lets see what cmdlets are available, there are a couple ways to do this:

   Get-Module MicrosoftTeams -ListAvailable | % { $_.ExportedCommands.Values }

   Or

   Get-Teamhelp

7.  It will populate the list of cmdlets:
8. Ok now that we’ve got the module installed lets get connected, the module includes a connect cmdlet

   Connect-MicrosoftTeams

9. Login to your Tenant with the appropriate privileges:
10. Once you authenticate it will return your connection and tenant information

11. Let’s run a few cmdlets to see what it brings up:

    PS C:\> Get-Team
    
    GroupId                              DisplayName Description
    -------                              ----------- -----------
    f1109f53-c77c-445c-a86e-e8f8a19fad49 Demo Team   Demo Team

12. Creating a team is pretty straight forward see the below example although no verbose information is provided :

    PS C:\> New-Team -DisplayName 'Powershell Teams Team' -AccessType Private -Description 'First team created via powershell' -Verbose
    
    GroupId                             
    -------                             
    bc47094f-68b8-48e0-9ffa-23ac89e0b109

    

13. Lets add a channel to the new Team:

    PS C:\> New-TeamChannel -GroupId 'bc47094f-68b8-48e0-9ffa-23ac89e0b109' -DisplayName 'Channel 1'
    
    Id                                   DisplayName Description
    --                                   ----------- -----------
    0dedb767-4d0f-495f-bcd2-041add2fa8a5 Channel 1

    

So as you can tell this can become very powerful when creating and managing multiple teams. The module is still in the early stages , hopefully in the next iteration it will include some additional features and policy management.

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