Office 365 - Create a User Group and add this to TermStore Users

Question

I want to know how to create a users group in Office 365 Admin using PowerShell. Is there a possibility to add this group to TermStore Administrators and TermSet Contributor - Through Powershell only.

Thanks

Answer 1

You could consider the following options for creating a Group:

Using SharePoint Online Management Shell

New-SPOSiteGroup cmdlet creates a new group in a SharePoint Online site collection, for example:

Connect-SPOService -Url https://contoso-admin.sharepoint.com -credential admin@contoso.com
New-SPOSiteGroup -Site https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/siteA -Group "Project Leads" -PermissionLevels "Full Control"

Consume CSOM/REST APIs in PowerShell

How to create SharePoint Group using CSOM in PowerShell:

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint.Client")
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime")

Function Get-SPOCredentials([string]$UserName,[string]$Password)
{
    $SecurePassword = $Password | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force
    return New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($UserName, $SecurePassword)
}


Function Create-SPOGroup([Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext]$Context,[string]$Title,[string]$Description) 
{ 
    $info=New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.GroupCreationInformation 
    $info.Title=$Title
    $info.Description=$Description
    $group=$Context.Web.SiteGroups.Add($info) 
    $Context.ExecuteQuery()      
}

Usage

$UserName = "username@contoso.onmicrosoft.com"
$Password = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter the password"    
$Url = "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/"

$context = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($Url)
$context.Credentials = Get-SPOCredentials -UserName $UserName -Password $Password
Create-SPOGroup -Context $context -Title "Foo" -Description ""
$context.Dispose()

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Regarding adding TermStore Administrators, AFAIK it is only supported via Server Side Object Model using TermStore.AddTermStoreAdministrator method