Microsoft Teams cmdlets are here!

‘Sup PSHomies,

Microsoft Teams has released the long anticipated Teams module! And with that a great blog to get you started.

Microsoft Teams is Microsoft’s version of Slack (Ok, I oversimplified that… I know). I’ve been following MSTeams development with Graph Explorer for some time now (Something you should definitely look into).

So I followed the blog’s instructions and everything works as expected!

The cmdlets support the pipeline.  (Get-Command -Name <cmdlet>).Parameterset will get you an overview of what’s supported and/or mandatory. Generallyspeaking, GroupId is mandatory and accepted from the pipeline.

Here’s some code to help test drive the cmdlets.

	#region Connect
	Connect-MicrosoftTeams
	#endregion
	#region MSTeams cmdlets
	#Get all cmdlets
	Get-Command -Module *Teams*
	#Only interested in Get-*?
	Get-Command -Module *Teams* -Name Get*
	#Find out what mandatory and/or accepts ValueFrom* for Get-TeamUser
	(Get-Command -Name Get-TeamUser).ParameterSets
	#endregion
	#region Test drive cmdlets
	#Get Team Displays all Teams (Ofcourse it does)
	Get-Team
	#Get Team Channels. GroupId ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = True
	Get-Team | Get-TeamChannel
	#Group TeamChannels by Teams
	Get-Team |
	ForEach-Object{
	$result = Get-TeamChannel -GroupId $_.GroupId
	[PSCustomObject]@{
	Team = $_.DisplayName
	TeamChannel = $result
	}
	} -OutVariable TeamChannels
	#Get Team Users. GroupId ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = True
	Get-Team | Get-TeamUser
	#Get TeamUsers
	Get-Team |
	ForEach-Object{
	$result = Get-TeamUser -GroupId $_.GroupId
	[PSCustomObject]@{
	Team = $_.DisplayName
	Users = $result
	}
	} -OutVariable TeamUsers
	#Get TeamMemberSettings
	Get-Team |
	ForEach-Object{
	$result = Get-TeamMemberSettings -GroupId $_.GroupId
	[PSCustomObject]@{
	Team = $_.DisplayName
	TeamMemberSettings = $result
	}
	} -OutVariable TeamMemberSettings
	#endregion

view raw Demo-MSTeamCmdlets.ps1 hosted with ❤ by GitHub

So one thing I was hoping for, was to have a cmdlet to post to TeamChannels. For now posting can be done using Graph beta support for teams. Looking forward to having cmdlets for posting as well (fingers crossed!). Before the cmdlets you needed to do some pre-configuration in order to post using Graph, so the cmdlets definitely makes that step easier!

Well that’s it in a nutshell, happy Testing

Hope it’s worth something to you,

Ttyl,

Urv