How to Connect to Microsoft Teams with PowerShell?

Requirement: Connect to Microsoft Teams using PowerShell.

Microsoft Teams is a platform for team collaboration in the workplace. It can be used for real-time communication, sharing files, managing projects, and more. As PowerShell provides a powerful way to automate tasks, In this post, I’ll walk you through how to connect to Microsoft Teams using PowerShell. We’ll also see some of the basic commands you can use once you’re connected. Let’s get started!

Step 1: Install Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module

To start with, you need to install the PowerShell module for Microsoft Teams. Check if you have teams module installed already by: 

Get-module *teams* 

This gets you the Microsoft Teams PowerShell version. If it’s not installed already, Here is how to install the Microsoft Teams PowerShell module.

• Open Windows PowerShell with “Run as Administrator”, and Enter

  Install-Module -Name MicrosoftTeams

• Confirm the prompt by entering “A” Yes to All. The module will start to download and install.

  

Update Teams Module: To update the teams module, run:

Update-Module MicrosoftTeams

Step 2: Connect to Microsoft Teams using PowerShell

Once you have the Teams PowerShell module is installed, you can connect to Teams using 

Connect-MicrosoftTeams

You’ll get a popup to enter your credentials. This Popup is MFA aware! You can connect Microsoft Teams PowerShell with MFA by leaving the “-Credential” parameter.

You can also use the credential parameter to get the credentials and connect.

#Connect to Microsoft Teams
Connect-MicrosoftTeams -Credential (Get-Credential)

Can I connect to Microsoft Teams with a hard-coded user name and password through PowerShell? Sure!

#Parameters for Credentials
$UserName = "[email protected]"
$PassWord = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "Password goes here" -AsPlainText -Force

#Create a Credential object
$Cred = New-Object -TypeName "System.Management.Automation.PSCredential" -ArgumentList $UserName, $PassWord

#Connect to Microsoft Teams with given user name and password
Connect-MicrosoftTeams -Credential $Cred

#Get All Public Teams
Get-Team | Where {$_.Visibility -eq "Public"}

Make sure you have either global administrator or Teams service administrator rights before connecting to teams. Although any team owner/member can connect to Teams with PowerShell, their permissions are limited within the teams.

Step 3: Start using Cmdlets for Microsoft Teams

Once you have established the connectivity with Microsoft Teams, you can start using PowerShell cmdlets. E.g., Let’s get a list of Microsoft Teams using PowerShell

#Connect to Microsoft Teams
Connect-MicrosoftTeams -Credential (Get-Credential)

#Get all Teams
Get-Team

Disconnect Microsoft Teams from PowerShell

Disconnect-MicrosoftTeams

Get All PowerShell Cmdlets available in Teams Module

To get all available cmdlets for Teams, you can use:

Get-Command -Module MicrosoftTeams

How to uninstall Microsoft Teams PowerShell?

For some reason, If you want to uninstall the Microsoft Teams PowerShell module, use:

UnInstall-Module MicrosoftTeams

Here is my related post, How to Manage Microsoft Teams using PowerShell?