How to create groups in bulk on Office 365

How to create groups in bulk on Office 365

In this article we will talk about how to create groups in bulks inside Office 365. If this is a task you are trying to complete, the Script attached below will help you to achieve it. 

To read the group names and members, the script will ask you to create a .csv file with the following columns: groupname, owner, members.

Below you can find an example of what your csv should contain.

Once the csv file was created, you can run the script, make sure you already opened a session with your tenant first.

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