Add member to channel

Article
04/04/2024

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Add a conversationMember to a channel. This operation is allowed only for channels with a membershipType value of private or shared.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	✅

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	ChannelMember.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	ChannelMember.ReadWrite.All	Not available.

HTTP request

POST /teams/{team-id}/channels/{channel-id}/members

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-type	application/json. Required.

Request body

Include the following properties in the request body.

Property	Type	Description
roles	string collection	The role for the user. Must be `owner` or empty.
user	user	The user to add to the channel.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 201 Created response code and a conversationMember object in the response body.

Note

The response code 404 Not Found is returned when you attempt to add a disabled/blocked user.

Examples

Example 1: Add a member to a private channel

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/ece6f0a1-7ca4-498b-be79-edf6c8fc4d82/channels/19%3A56eb04e133944cf69e603c5dac2d292e%40thread.skype/members
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
    "roles": ["owner"],
    "[email protected]": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5')"
}


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new AadUserConversationMember
{
	OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
	Roles = new List<string>
	{
		"owner",
	},
	AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
	{
		{
			"[email protected]" , "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5')"
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Teams["{team-id}"].Channels["{channel-id}"].Members.PostAsync(requestBody);



mgc teams channels members create --team-id {team-id} --channel-id {channel-id} --body '{\
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",\
    "roles": ["owner"],\
    "[email protected]": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5')"\
}\
'



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewConversationMember()
roles := []string {
	"owner",
}
requestBody.SetRoles(roles)
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
	"[email protected]" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5')", 
}
requestBody.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
members, err := graphClient.Teams().ByTeamId("team-id").Channels().ByChannelId("channel-id").Members().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

AadUserConversationMember conversationMember = new AadUserConversationMember();
conversationMember.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember");
LinkedList<String> roles = new LinkedList<String>();
roles.add("owner");
conversationMember.setRoles(roles);
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
additionalData.put("[email protected]", "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5')");
conversationMember.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
ConversationMember result = graphClient.teams().byTeamId("{team-id}").channels().byChannelId("{channel-id}").members().post(conversationMember);


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const conversationMember = {
    '@odata.type': '#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember',
    roles: ['owner'],
    '[email protected]': 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users(\'8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5\')'
};

await client.api('/teams/ece6f0a1-7ca4-498b-be79-edf6c8fc4d82/channels/19:[email protected]/members')
	.post(conversationMember);


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\AadUserConversationMember;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new AadUserConversationMember();
$requestBody->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember');
$requestBody->setRoles(['owner', 	]);
$additionalData = [
	'[email protected]' => 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users(\'8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5\')',
];
$requestBody->setAdditionalData($additionalData);

$result = $graphServiceClient->teams()->byTeamId('team-id')->channels()->byChannelId('channel-id')->members()->post($requestBody)->wait();


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Teams

$params = @{
	"@odata.type" = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember"
	roles = @(
	"owner"
)
"[email protected]" = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5')"
}

New-MgTeamChannelMember -TeamId $teamId -ChannelId $channelId -BodyParameter $params


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.aad_user_conversation_member import AadUserConversationMember
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = AadUserConversationMember(
	odata_type = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
	roles = [
		"owner",
	],
	additional_data = {
			"user@odata_bind" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5')",
	}
)

result = await graph_client.teams.by_team_id('team-id').channels.by_channel_id('channel-id').members.post(request_body)

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#teams('ece6f0a1-7ca4-498b-be79-edf6c8fc4d82')/channels('19%3A56eb04e133944cf69e603c5dac2d292e%40thread.skype')/members/microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember/$entity",
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
  "id": "ZWUwZjVhZTItOGJjNi00YWU1LTg0NjYtN2RhZWViYmZhMDYyIyM3Mzc2MWYwNi0yYWM5LTQ2OWMtOWYxMC0yNzlhOGNjMjY3Zjk=",
  "roles": [],
  "displayName": "John Doe",
  "userId": "8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5",
  "email": null
}

Example 2: Add a member with the owner role to a private channel

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/ece6f0a1-7ca4-498b-be79-edf6c8fc4d82/channels/19%3A56eb04e133944cf69e603c5dac2d292e%40thread.skype/members
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
    "roles": ["owner"],
    "[email protected]": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5')"
}


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new AadUserConversationMember
{
	OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
	Roles = new List<string>
	{
		"owner",
	},
	AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
	{
		{
			"[email protected]" , "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5')"
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Teams["{team-id}"].Channels["{channel-id}"].Members.PostAsync(requestBody);



mgc teams channels members create --team-id {team-id} --channel-id {channel-id} --body '{\
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",\
    "roles": ["owner"],\
    "[email protected]": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5')"\
}\
'



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewConversationMember()
roles := []string {
	"owner",
}
requestBody.SetRoles(roles)
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
	"[email protected]" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5')", 
}
requestBody.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
members, err := graphClient.Teams().ByTeamId("team-id").Channels().ByChannelId("channel-id").Members().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

AadUserConversationMember conversationMember = new AadUserConversationMember();
conversationMember.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember");
LinkedList<String> roles = new LinkedList<String>();
roles.add("owner");
conversationMember.setRoles(roles);
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
additionalData.put("[email protected]", "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5')");
conversationMember.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
ConversationMember result = graphClient.teams().byTeamId("{team-id}").channels().byChannelId("{channel-id}").members().post(conversationMember);


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const conversationMember = {
    '@odata.type': '#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember',
    roles: ['owner'],
    '[email protected]': 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users(\'8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5\')'
};

await client.api('/teams/ece6f0a1-7ca4-498b-be79-edf6c8fc4d82/channels/19:[email protected]/members')
	.post(conversationMember);


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\AadUserConversationMember;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new AadUserConversationMember();
$requestBody->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember');
$requestBody->setRoles(['owner', 	]);
$additionalData = [
	'[email protected]' => 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users(\'8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5\')',
];
$requestBody->setAdditionalData($additionalData);

$result = $graphServiceClient->teams()->byTeamId('team-id')->channels()->byChannelId('channel-id')->members()->post($requestBody)->wait();


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Teams

$params = @{
	"@odata.type" = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember"
	roles = @(
	"owner"
)
"[email protected]" = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5')"
}

New-MgTeamChannelMember -TeamId $teamId -ChannelId $channelId -BodyParameter $params


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.aad_user_conversation_member import AadUserConversationMember
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = AadUserConversationMember(
	odata_type = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
	roles = [
		"owner",
	],
	additional_data = {
			"user@odata_bind" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5')",
	}
)

result = await graph_client.teams.by_team_id('team-id').channels.by_channel_id('channel-id').members.post(request_body)

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#teams('ece6f0a1-7ca4-498b-be79-edf6c8fc4d82')/channels('19%3A56eb04e133944cf69e603c5dac2d292e%40thread.skype')/members/microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember/$entity",
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
  "id": "ZWUwZjVhZTItOGJjNi00YWU1LTg0NjYtN2RhZWViYmZhMDYyIyM3Mzc2MWYwNi0yYWM5LTQ2OWMtOWYxMC0yNzlhOGNjMjY3Zjk=",
  "roles": ["owner"],
  "displayName": "John Doe",
  "userId": "8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5",
  "email": null
}

Example 3: Add an owner to a channel using user principal name

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/ece6f0a1-7ca4-498b-be79-edf6c8fc4d82/channels/19%3A56eb04e133944cf69e603c5dac2d292e%40thread.skype/members
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
    "roles": ["owner"],
    "[email protected]": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('[email protected]')"
}


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new AadUserConversationMember
{
	OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
	Roles = new List<string>
	{
		"owner",
	},
	AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
	{
		{
			"[email protected]" , "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('[email protected]')"
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Teams["{team-id}"].Channels["{channel-id}"].Members.PostAsync(requestBody);



mgc teams channels members create --team-id {team-id} --channel-id {channel-id} --body '{\
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",\
    "roles": ["owner"],\
    "[email protected]": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('[email protected]')"\
}\
'



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewConversationMember()
roles := []string {
	"owner",
}
requestBody.SetRoles(roles)
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
	"[email protected]" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('[email protected]')", 
}
requestBody.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
members, err := graphClient.Teams().ByTeamId("team-id").Channels().ByChannelId("channel-id").Members().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

AadUserConversationMember conversationMember = new AadUserConversationMember();
conversationMember.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember");
LinkedList<String> roles = new LinkedList<String>();
roles.add("owner");
conversationMember.setRoles(roles);
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
additionalData.put("[email protected]", "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('[email protected]')");
conversationMember.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
ConversationMember result = graphClient.teams().byTeamId("{team-id}").channels().byChannelId("{channel-id}").members().post(conversationMember);


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const conversationMember = {
    '@odata.type': '#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember',
    roles: ['owner'],
    '[email protected]': 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users(\'[email protected]\')'
};

await client.api('/teams/ece6f0a1-7ca4-498b-be79-edf6c8fc4d82/channels/19:[email protected]/members')
	.post(conversationMember);


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\AadUserConversationMember;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new AadUserConversationMember();
$requestBody->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember');
$requestBody->setRoles(['owner', 	]);
$additionalData = [
	'[email protected]' => 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users(\'[email protected]\')',
];
$requestBody->setAdditionalData($additionalData);

$result = $graphServiceClient->teams()->byTeamId('team-id')->channels()->byChannelId('channel-id')->members()->post($requestBody)->wait();


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Teams

$params = @{
	"@odata.type" = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember"
	roles = @(
	"owner"
)
"[email protected]" = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('[email protected]')"
}

New-MgTeamChannelMember -TeamId $teamId -ChannelId $channelId -BodyParameter $params


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.aad_user_conversation_member import AadUserConversationMember
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = AadUserConversationMember(
	odata_type = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
	roles = [
		"owner",
	],
	additional_data = {
			"user@odata_bind" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('[email protected]')",
	}
)

result = await graph_client.teams.by_team_id('team-id').channels.by_channel_id('channel-id').members.post(request_body)

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#teams('ece6f0a1-7ca4-498b-be79-edf6c8fc4d82')/channels('19%3A56eb04e133944cf69e603c5dac2d292e%40thread.skype')/members/microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember/$entity",
  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
  "id": "ZWUwZjVhZTItOGJjNi00YWU1LTg0NjYtN2RhZWViYmZhMDYyIyM3Mzc2MWYwNi0yYWM5LTQ2OWMtOWYxMC0yNzlhOGNjMjY3Zjk=",
  "roles": [],
  "displayName": "Jacob Hancock",
  "userId": "8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5",
  "email": "[email protected]"
}

Example 4: Add a user who is part of the same tenant as a member to a shared channel

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/6a720ba5-7373-463b-bc9f-4cd04b5c6742/channels/19:[email protected]/members
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
    "roles": [],
    "[email protected]": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/24b3819b-4e1d-4f3e-86bd-e42b54d0b2b4"
}


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new AadUserConversationMember
{
	OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
	Roles = new List<string>
	{
	},
	AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
	{
		{
			"[email protected]" , "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/24b3819b-4e1d-4f3e-86bd-e42b54d0b2b4"
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Teams["{team-id}"].Channels["{channel-id}"].Members.PostAsync(requestBody);



mgc teams channels members create --team-id {team-id} --channel-id {channel-id} --body '{\
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",\
    "roles": [],\
    "[email protected]": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/24b3819b-4e1d-4f3e-86bd-e42b54d0b2b4"\
}\
'



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewConversationMember()
roles := []string {

}
requestBody.SetRoles(roles)
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
	"[email protected]" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/24b3819b-4e1d-4f3e-86bd-e42b54d0b2b4", 
}
requestBody.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
members, err := graphClient.Teams().ByTeamId("team-id").Channels().ByChannelId("channel-id").Members().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

AadUserConversationMember conversationMember = new AadUserConversationMember();
conversationMember.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember");
LinkedList<String> roles = new LinkedList<String>();
conversationMember.setRoles(roles);
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
additionalData.put("[email protected]", "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/24b3819b-4e1d-4f3e-86bd-e42b54d0b2b4");
conversationMember.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
ConversationMember result = graphClient.teams().byTeamId("{team-id}").channels().byChannelId("{channel-id}").members().post(conversationMember);


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const conversationMember = {
    '@odata.type': '#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember',
    roles: [],
    '[email protected]': 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/24b3819b-4e1d-4f3e-86bd-e42b54d0b2b4'
};

await client.api('/teams/6a720ba5-7373-463b-bc9f-4cd04b5c6742/channels/19:[email protected]/members')
	.post(conversationMember);


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\AadUserConversationMember;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new AadUserConversationMember();
$requestBody->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember');
$requestBody->setRoles([	]);
$additionalData = [
	'[email protected]' => 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/24b3819b-4e1d-4f3e-86bd-e42b54d0b2b4',
];
$requestBody->setAdditionalData($additionalData);

$result = $graphServiceClient->teams()->byTeamId('team-id')->channels()->byChannelId('channel-id')->members()->post($requestBody)->wait();


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Teams

$params = @{
	"@odata.type" = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember"
	roles = @(
	)
	"[email protected]" = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/24b3819b-4e1d-4f3e-86bd-e42b54d0b2b4"
}

New-MgTeamChannelMember -TeamId $teamId -ChannelId $channelId -BodyParameter $params


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.aad_user_conversation_member import AadUserConversationMember
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = AadUserConversationMember(
	odata_type = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
	roles = [
	],
	additional_data = {
			"user@odata_bind" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/24b3819b-4e1d-4f3e-86bd-e42b54d0b2b4",
	}
)

result = await graph_client.teams.by_team_id('team-id').channels.by_channel_id('channel-id').members.post(request_body)

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 468

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#teams('6a720ba5-7373-463b-bc9f-4cd04b5c6742')/channels('19%3ALpxShHZZh9utjNcEmUS5aOEP9ASw85OUn05NcWYAhX81%40thread.tacv2')/members/$entity",
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
    "id": "ZGY4MWRiNTMtYzdlMi00MThhLTg4MDMtMGU2OGQ0Yjg4NjA3IyMxOTpMcHhTaEhaWmg5dXRqTmNFbVVTNWFPRVA5QVN3ODVPVW4wNU5jV1lBaFg4MUB0aHJlYWQudGFjdjIjIzI0YjM4MTliLTRlMWQtNGYzZS04NmJkLWU0MmI1NGQwYjJiNA==",
    "roles": [],
    "displayName": "John Doe",
    "visibleHistoryStartDateTime": null,
    "userId": "24b3819b-4e1d-4f3e-86bd-e42b54d0b2b4",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "tenantId": "df81db53-c7e2-418a-8803-0e68d4b88607"
}

Example 5: Add a user who is part of a different tenant as a member to a shared channel

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/6a720ba5-7373-463b-bc9f-4cd04b5c6742/channels/19:[email protected]/members
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
    "roles": [],
    "[email protected]": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/bc3598dd-cce4-4742-ae15-173429951408",
    "tenantId": "a18103d1-a6ef-4f66-ac64-e4ef42ea8681"
}


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new AadUserConversationMember
{
	OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
	Roles = new List<string>
	{
	},
	TenantId = "a18103d1-a6ef-4f66-ac64-e4ef42ea8681",
	AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
	{
		{
			"[email protected]" , "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/bc3598dd-cce4-4742-ae15-173429951408"
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Teams["{team-id}"].Channels["{channel-id}"].Members.PostAsync(requestBody);



mgc teams channels members create --team-id {team-id} --channel-id {channel-id} --body '{\
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",\
    "roles": [],\
    "[email protected]": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/bc3598dd-cce4-4742-ae15-173429951408",\
    "tenantId": "a18103d1-a6ef-4f66-ac64-e4ef42ea8681"\
}\
'



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewConversationMember()
roles := []string {

}
requestBody.SetRoles(roles)
tenantId := "a18103d1-a6ef-4f66-ac64-e4ef42ea8681"
requestBody.SetTenantId(&tenantId) 
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
	"[email protected]" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/bc3598dd-cce4-4742-ae15-173429951408", 
}
requestBody.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
members, err := graphClient.Teams().ByTeamId("team-id").Channels().ByChannelId("channel-id").Members().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

AadUserConversationMember conversationMember = new AadUserConversationMember();
conversationMember.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember");
LinkedList<String> roles = new LinkedList<String>();
conversationMember.setRoles(roles);
conversationMember.setTenantId("a18103d1-a6ef-4f66-ac64-e4ef42ea8681");
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
additionalData.put("[email protected]", "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/bc3598dd-cce4-4742-ae15-173429951408");
conversationMember.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
ConversationMember result = graphClient.teams().byTeamId("{team-id}").channels().byChannelId("{channel-id}").members().post(conversationMember);


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const conversationMember = {
    '@odata.type': '#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember',
    roles: [],
    '[email protected]': 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/bc3598dd-cce4-4742-ae15-173429951408',
    tenantId: 'a18103d1-a6ef-4f66-ac64-e4ef42ea8681'
};

await client.api('/teams/6a720ba5-7373-463b-bc9f-4cd04b5c6742/channels/19:[email protected]/members')
	.post(conversationMember);


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\AadUserConversationMember;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new AadUserConversationMember();
$requestBody->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember');
$requestBody->setRoles([	]);
$requestBody->setTenantId('a18103d1-a6ef-4f66-ac64-e4ef42ea8681');
$additionalData = [
	'[email protected]' => 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/bc3598dd-cce4-4742-ae15-173429951408',
];
$requestBody->setAdditionalData($additionalData);

$result = $graphServiceClient->teams()->byTeamId('team-id')->channels()->byChannelId('channel-id')->members()->post($requestBody)->wait();


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Teams

$params = @{
	"@odata.type" = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember"
	roles = @(
	)
	"[email protected]" = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/bc3598dd-cce4-4742-ae15-173429951408"
	tenantId = "a18103d1-a6ef-4f66-ac64-e4ef42ea8681"
}

New-MgTeamChannelMember -TeamId $teamId -ChannelId $channelId -BodyParameter $params


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.aad_user_conversation_member import AadUserConversationMember
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = AadUserConversationMember(
	odata_type = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
	roles = [
	],
	tenant_id = "a18103d1-a6ef-4f66-ac64-e4ef42ea8681",
	additional_data = {
			"user@odata_bind" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/bc3598dd-cce4-4742-ae15-173429951408",
	}
)

result = await graph_client.teams.by_team_id('team-id').channels.by_channel_id('channel-id').members.post(request_body)

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json
Content-length: 468

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#teams('6a720ba5-7373-463b-bc9f-4cd04b5c6742')/channels('19%3ALpxShHZZh9utjNcEmUS5aOEP9ASw85OUn05NcWYAhX81%40thread.tacv2')/members/$entity",
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
    "id": "YTE4MTAzZDEtYTZlZi00ZjY2LWFjNjQtZTRlZjQyZWE4NjgxIyMxOTpMcHhTaEhaWmg5dXRqTmNFbVVTNWFPRVA5QVN3ODVPVW4wNU5jV1lBaFg4MUB0aHJlYWQudGFjdjIjI2JjMzU5OGRkLWNjZTQtNDc0Mi1hZTE1LTE3MzQyOTk1MTQwOA==",
    "roles": [],
    "displayName": "Eric Solomon",
    "visibleHistoryStartDateTime": null,
    "userId": "bc3598dd-cce4-4742-ae15-173429951408",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "tenantId": "a18103d1-a6ef-4f66-ac64-e4ef42ea8681"
}

Example 6: Add a user who is part of the same or a different tenant as a member to a shared channel using user principal name

Request

The following example shows a request.

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/ece6f0a1-7ca4-498b-be79-edf6c8fc4d82/channels/19%3ALpxShHZZh9utjNcEmUS5aOEP9ASw85OUn05NcWYAhX81%40thread.tacv2/members
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
    "roles": [],
    "[email protected]": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('[email protected]')"
}


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new AadUserConversationMember
{
	OdataType = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
	Roles = new List<string>
	{
	},
	AdditionalData = new Dictionary<string, object>
	{
		{
			"[email protected]" , "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('[email protected]')"
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Teams["{team-id}"].Channels["{channel-id}"].Members.PostAsync(requestBody);



mgc teams channels members create --team-id {team-id} --channel-id {channel-id} --body '{\
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",\
    "roles": [],\
    "[email protected]": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('[email protected]')"\
}\
'



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewConversationMember()
roles := []string {

}
requestBody.SetRoles(roles)
additionalData := map[string]interface{}{
	"[email protected]" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('[email protected]')", 
}
requestBody.SetAdditionalData(additionalData)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
members, err := graphClient.Teams().ByTeamId("team-id").Channels().ByChannelId("channel-id").Members().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

AadUserConversationMember conversationMember = new AadUserConversationMember();
conversationMember.setOdataType("#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember");
LinkedList<String> roles = new LinkedList<String>();
conversationMember.setRoles(roles);
HashMap<String, Object> additionalData = new HashMap<String, Object>();
additionalData.put("[email protected]", "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('[email protected]')");
conversationMember.setAdditionalData(additionalData);
ConversationMember result = graphClient.teams().byTeamId("{team-id}").channels().byChannelId("{channel-id}").members().post(conversationMember);


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const conversationMember = {
    '@odata.type': '#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember',
    roles: [],
    '[email protected]': 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users(\'[email protected]\')'
};

await client.api('/teams/ece6f0a1-7ca4-498b-be79-edf6c8fc4d82/channels/19:[email protected]/members')
	.post(conversationMember);


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\AadUserConversationMember;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new AadUserConversationMember();
$requestBody->setOdataType('#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember');
$requestBody->setRoles([	]);
$additionalData = [
	'[email protected]' => 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users(\'[email protected]\')',
];
$requestBody->setAdditionalData($additionalData);

$result = $graphServiceClient->teams()->byTeamId('team-id')->channels()->byChannelId('channel-id')->members()->post($requestBody)->wait();


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Teams

$params = @{
	"@odata.type" = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember"
	roles = @(
	)
	"[email protected]" = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('[email protected]')"
}

New-MgTeamChannelMember -TeamId $teamId -ChannelId $channelId -BodyParameter $params


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.aad_user_conversation_member import AadUserConversationMember
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = AadUserConversationMember(
	odata_type = "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
	roles = [
	],
	additional_data = {
			"user@odata_bind" : "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users('[email protected]')",
	}
)

result = await graph_client.teams.by_team_id('team-id').channels.by_channel_id('channel-id').members.post(request_body)

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#teams('ece6f0a1-7ca4-498b-be79-edf6c8fc4d82')/channels('19%3ALpxShHZZh9utjNcEmUS5aOEP9ASw85OUn05NcWYAhX81%40thread.tacv2')/members/microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember/$entity",
    "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember",
    "id": "ZWUwZjVhZTItOGJjNi00YWU1LTg0NjYtN2RhZWViYmZhMDYyIyM3Mzc2MWYwNi0yYWM5LTQ2OWMtOWYxMC0yNzlhOGNjMjY3Zjk=",
    "roles": [],
    "displayName": "Jacob Hancock",
    "userId": "8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "tenantId": "a18103d1-a6ef-4f66-ac64-e4ef42ea8681"
}

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HTTP request

Request headers

Request body

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Examples

Example 1: Add a member to a private channel

Request

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Example 2: Add a member with the owner role to a private channel

Request

Response

Example 3: Add an owner to a channel using user principal name

Request

Response

Example 4: Add a user who is part of the same tenant as a member to a shared channel

Request

Response

Example 5: Add a user who is part of a different tenant as a member to a shared channel

Request

Response

Example 6: Add a user who is part of the same or a different tenant as a member to a shared channel using user principal name

Request

Response

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Permissions

HTTP request

Request headers

Request body

Response

Examples

Example 1: Add a member to a private channel

Request

Response

Example 2: Add a member with the owner role to a private channel

Request

Response

Example 3: Add an owner to a channel using user principal name

Request

Response

Example 4: Add a user who is part of the same tenant as a member to a shared channel

Request

Response

Example 5: Add a user who is part of a different tenant as a member to a shared channel

Request

Response

Example 6: Add a user who is part of the same or a different tenant as a member to a shared channel using user principal name

Request

Response

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