Can Teams Shared Channels be created using Powershell yet? If so, does anyone know the syntax?

Hi @Freeman Willerton Please have a try of the following cmdlet and see if it can work for you: New-TeamChannel -GroupId <id of the Team> -DisplayName <shared channel display name> -MembershipType Shared If the answer is helpful, please click "Accept Answer" and kindly upvote it. If you have extra questions about this answer, please click "Comment". Note: Please follow the steps in our documentation to enable e-mail notifications if you want to receive the related email notification for this thread.

Hi there, Create a standard channel with display name as "Architecture" New-TeamChannel -GroupId 126b90a5-e65a-4fef-98e3-d9b49f4acf12 -DisplayName "Architecture" New-TeamChannel https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/teams/new-teamchannel?view=teams-ps I hope this information helps. If you have any questions please let me know and I will be glad to help you out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --If the reply is helpful, please Upvote and Accept it as an answer--

Creating a Teams shared channel using Powershell

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Kael Yao-MSFT 37,496 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2022-08-03T02:19:29.167+00:00
Hi @Freeman Willerton

Please have a try of the following cmdlet and see if it can work for you:

New-TeamChannel -GroupId <id of the Team> -DisplayName <shared channel display name> -MembershipType Shared

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Kael Yao-MSFT 37,496 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2022-08-08T01:39:26.393+00:00

Hi @Freeman Willerton

Just checking in to see if above information was helpful. Please let us know if you would like further assistance.

Freeman Willerton 21 Reputation points

2022-08-09T19:43:58.997+00:00

Yes. This works and is helpful, thank you. However, it appears there is very limited ability to work with Shared Channels in powershell at the moment. For instance Add-TeamChannelUser doesn't seem to work. I'm sure this will be updated in the future. I hope soon.

Kerstetter, Ed 1 Reputation point

2022-08-30T21:50:22.117+00:00

I can second there is something wrong here.

First when you create a Shared channel in either the admin center or via powershell, the membership type still shows as Standard. (It will show as shared in the admin center for a few seconds, then when you refresh it'll switch back to standard). The only way to know that it is really a shared channel is to click into the channel in the admin center and then "Type" shows as shared and you have the ability to add members. Then when you try to use the Add-TeamChannelUser to a shared channel you get an error stating "Add-TeamChannelUser: Operation not allowed on channel of type Standard." You can add users to shared channel via the admin center just fine though.
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Creating a Teams shared channel using Powershell

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