Connecting to Microsoft Teams through non-interactive powershell script

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DanielBecker-2339 asked · Feb 26 at 08:48 AM

Connecting to Microsoft Teams through non-interactive powershell script

I am trying to write an azure function in PowerShell to connect to a Microsoft Teams account:

using namespace System.Net

# Input bindings are passed in via param block.
param($Request, $TriggerMetadata)

# Write to the Azure Functions log stream.
Write-Host "Running teams account setup."

[string]$userName = 'xxx'
[string]$userPassword = 'xxx'
[securestring]$secStringPassword = ConvertTo-SecureString $userPassword -AsPlainText -Force
Write-Host ($secStringPassword | Format-Table | Out-String)
[pscredential]$credentials = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ($userName, $secStringPassword)
Write-Host ($credentials | Format-Table | Out-String)
Connect-MicrosoftTeams -Credential $credentials

The error message I'm getting is essentially: ERROR: password_required_for_managed_user: Password is required for managed user

I read that it might be necessary to replace -Credentials with -Identity, but I can't find any documentation on how to implement that.

azure-functions office-teams-app-dev

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NikithaMSFT-0176 · Mar 02 at 11:14 AM

To solve this issue, we have a third option of storing encrypted credentials to a file on the computer. The PowerShell script uses the encrypted password from the file to create a credential object. please go through below links. link1 Link2

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Answer 1 · 2021-03-01T02:38:49.81Z

SharonZhao-MSFT answered · Mar 01 at 02:38 AM

@DanielBecker-2339,

As we are mainly responsible for general issue of Microsoft Teams, your question which is more related to script is not in our scope. Thanks for your understanding.

The following script is for your reference. I have tested it in my lab. It works well.

 $User = "xxx@contoso.com"
 $PassWord = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "YourPassword" -AsPlainText -Force
 $UserCredential = New-Object -TypeName "System.Management.Automation.PSCredential" -ArgumentList $User, $PassWord
 import-module microsoftteams
 Connect-MicrosoftTeams -Credential $UserCredential -AccountId $User

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DanielBecker-2339 · Mar 01 at 01:11 PM

Hi Sharon, thank you for the feedback. Could you maybe point me to a better place to ask my question?

Did you run your script as an Azure function? It works perfectly fine if you run it locally, just not in the function context.

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SharonZhao-MSFT DanielBecker-2339 · Mar 02 at 07:32 AM

@DanielBecker-2339,
No, I did not run the script as an Azure function.
I will add office-teams-app-dev tag for this thread. Hope you get better response.
Have a nice day!

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Answer 2 · 2021-03-09T14:36:24.527Z

JayaC-MSFT answered · Mar 09 at 02:36 PM

Hello @DanielBecker-2339, it seems to be an issue : https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/office-docs-powershell/issues/5950
Our core team will be rolling out the fix soon. I will update this thread as soon as there is any development regarding this.

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