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New-PnPMicrosoft365Group

SYNOPSIS

Required Permissions

  • Microsoft Graph API : One of Directory.ReadWrite.All, Group.Create, Group.ReadWrite.All

Creates a new Microsoft 365 Group

SYNTAX

Assigned membership (default)

New-PnPMicrosoft365Group -DisplayName <String> -Description <String> -MailNickname <String>
 [-Owners <String[]>] [-Members <String[]>] [-IsPrivate] [-LogoPath <String>] [-CreateTeam] [-HideFromAddressLists <Boolean>] [-HideFromOutlookClients <Boolean>] [-ResourceBehaviorOptions <TeamResourceBehaviorOptions>] [-MailEnabled <Boolean>] [-Force] [-SensitivityLabels <GUID[]>] [-Connection <PnPConnection>]

Dynamic membership

New-PnPMicrosoft365Group -DisplayName <String> -Description <String> -MailNickname <String> -DynamicMembershipRule <String> [-DynamicMembershipRuleProcessingState <DynamicMembershipRuleProcessingState>] [-Owners <String[]>] [-IsPrivate] [-LogoPath <String>] [-CreateTeam] [-HideFromAddressLists <Boolean>] [-HideFromOutlookClients <Boolean>] [-ResourceBehaviorOptions <TeamResourceBehaviorOptions>] [-Force] [-SensitivityLabels <GUID[]>] [-Connection <PnPConnection>]

DESCRIPTION

Allows to create a new Microsoft 365 Group. It can have an assigned membership or a dynamically defined membership.

EXAMPLES

EXAMPLE 1

New-PnPMicrosoft365Group -DisplayName $displayName -Description $description -MailNickname $nickname

Creates a public Microsoft 365 Group with an assigned membership providing all the required properties

EXAMPLE 2

New-PnPMicrosoft365Group -DisplayName $displayName -Description $description -MailNickname $nickname -Owners "owner1@domain.com" -Members "member1@domain.com"

Creates a public Microsoft 365 Group with an assigned membership providing all the required properties, and with a custom list of Owners and a custom list of Members

EXAMPLE 3

New-PnPMicrosoft365Group -DisplayName $displayName -Description $description -MailNickname $nickname -IsPrivate

Creates a private Microsoft 365 Group with an assigned membership providing all the required properties

EXAMPLE 4

New-PnPMicrosoft365Group -DisplayName $displayName -Description $description -MailNickname $nickname -Owners $arrayOfOwners -Members $arrayOfMembers -IsPrivate

Creates a private Microsoft 365 Group with an assigned membership providing all the required properties, and with a custom list of Owners and a custom list of Members

EXAMPLE 5

New-PnPMicrosoft365Group -DisplayName "myPnPDemo1" -Description $description -MailNickname $nickname -Owners $arrayOfOwners -Members $arrayOfMembers -IsPrivate -ResourceBehaviorOptions WelcomeEmailDisabled, HideGroupInOutlook

Creates a new Microsoft 365 Group called "myPnPDemo1" with an assigned membership and sets the privacy to Private. Welcome Email will not be sent when the Group is created. The M365 Group will also not be visible in Outlook.

EXAMPLE 6

New-PnPMicrosoft365Group -DisplayName $displayName -Description $description -MailNickname $nickname -IsPrivate -SensitivityLabels "bc98af29-59eb-4869-baaa-9a8dff631aa4"

Creates a private Microsoft 365 Group with an assigned membership and with all the required properties and applies the sensitivity label.

EXAMPLE 7

New-PnPMicrosoft365Group -DisplayName $displayName -Description $description -MailNickname $nickname -DynamicMembershipRule "(user.department -eq ""HR"")"

Creates a Microsoft 365 Group with all the users having HR in the department field of their profile as members. It will be active and will add users matching the criteria as members.

PARAMETERS

-CreateTeam

Creates a Microsoft Teams team associated with created group

Type: SwitchParameter
Parameter Sets: (All)

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-Description

The Description of the Microsoft 365 Group

Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)

Required: True
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-DisplayName

The Display Name of the Microsoft 365 Group

Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)

Required: True
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-DynamicMembershipRule

The rule that specifies which users should be a member of this group. I.e. (user.department -eq "HR") to indicate all users having HR in the department field of their user profile in Entra ID should be a member of this group.

Type: String
Parameter Sets: Dynamic membership

Required: True
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-DynamicMembershipRuleProcessingState

The state of the dynamic membership rule for processing the rules assigned to it. Possible values are: On, Paused. Default is On.

Type: String
Parameter Sets: Dynamic membership

Required: True
Position: Named
Default value: On
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-Force

Specifying the Force parameter will skip the confirmation question.

Type: SwitchParameter
Parameter Sets: (All)

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-LogoPath

The path to the logo file of to set. Supported formats are .png, .gif and .jpg

Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-IsPrivate

Makes the group private when selected

Type: SwitchParameter
Parameter Sets: (All)

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-MailEnabled

Boolean indicating if the group should be mail enabled. Default is true.

Type: String
Parameter Sets: Assigned membership

Required: True
Position: Named
Default value: True
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-MailNickname

The Mail Nickname of the Microsoft 365 Group. Cannot contain spaces.

Type: String
Parameter Sets: (All)

Required: True
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-Members

The array UserPrincipalName values of the group's members

Type: String[]
Parameter Sets: Assigned membership

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-Owners

The array UserPrincipalName values of the group's owners

Type: String[]
Parameter Sets: (All)

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-HideFromAddressLists

Controls whether the group is hidden or shown in the Global Address List (GAL).

Type: Boolean
Parameter Sets: (All)

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-HideFromOutlookClients

Controls whether the group shows in the Outlook left-hand navigation.

Type: Boolean
Parameter Sets: (All)

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-ResourceBehaviorOptions

Allows providing ResourceBehaviorOptions which accepts multiple values that specify group behaviors for a Microsoft 365 Group. Documentation on what each of these options do and default to if not provided can be found here: https://learn.microsoft.com/graph/group-set-options#configure-groups

Type: TeamResourceBehaviorOptions
Parameter Sets: (All)
Accepted values: AllowOnlyMembersToPost, HideGroupInOutlook, SubscribeNewGroupMembers, WelcomeEmailDisabled, CalendarMemberReadOnly, ConnectorsDisabled

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-SensitivityLabels

The Sensitivity label to be set to the Microsoft 365 Group. To retrieve the sensitivity label Ids you can use Get-PnPAvailableSensitivityLabel.

Type: GUID[]
Parameter Sets: (All)
Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

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