adding users to channels

Rising Flight 4,196 Reputation points
2024-07-05T22:50:34.0366667+00:00

Hi All

I have a unified group it has a teams and this teams has 5 channels(General/C1/C2/C3/C4). i have a list of users to be added to the channel. For example in general channel i want to add 200 users. For C1 500 users/ C2-300 users/C3-100 users/C4-50 users). please guide me how to add users to the channel. is it possible to add users to the channel from powershell by import csv file. my csv file is in below format.

EmailAddress 
user1@contoso.com  
user2@contoso.com
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  1. LiweiTian-MSFT 16,450 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2024-07-08T02:15:17.19+00:00

    Hi @Rising Flight

    Use the Add-TeamChannelUser cmdlet, or the corresponding Graph API endpoint: https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/powershell/module/teams/add-teamchanneluser?view=teams-ps Here's a quick example on how to bulk add via CSV:

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    Import-Csv "blabla.csv” | % {Add-TeamChannelUser -GroupId GUID -DisplayName "channel name" -User $_.UPN}

    where the CSV has a column called "UPN" to designate the users

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  2. Rising Flight 4,196 Reputation points
    2024-07-08T05:27:59.4933333+00:00

    I am getting below error.

    Add-TeamChannelUser : Cannot bind argument to parameter 'User' because it is null.

    Add-TeamChannelUser : Error occurred while executing Add-TeamChannelUser

    Code: BadRequest

    Message: Invalid User Id.

    i have used my csv files in the below 4 formats

EmailAddress
user1@contoso.com

EmailAddress
user1

UPN
user1@contoso.com

UPN
user1

i have used the below syntaxes but stil i am getting error.

Import-Csv "C:\temp\input.csv" | % {Add-TeamChannelUser -GroupId 111111-1111-1111-111-1111111 -DisplayName "test1" -User $_.UPN}


Import-Csv "C:\temp\input.csv" | % {Add-TeamChannelUser -GroupId 111111-1111-1111-111-1111111 -DisplayName "test1" -User $_.EmailAddress}

    InnerError:

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