Usecases for PowerShell 'MicrosoftTeams' module and 'Microsoft.Graph.Teams'

Question

Maybe someone can explain to me why there are two separate modules (understanding that the regular module is on top of the graph module anyway) and when to use one or the other.

Answer 1

Microsoft Teams PowerShell module is a set of cmdlets for managing Teams directly from the PowerShell command line

The Microsoft Teams PowerShell module includes the following features:

• Uses a single module to manage all aspects of Teams administration, including users, teams, policies, and configuration.

• Supports authentication mechanisms such as access tokens and credentials.

Microsoft Graph Teams module is used to perform some basic tasks like below:

• List users to find the user ID of the logged-in user

• List joinedTeams to get the Teams the user is a member of.

• List channels to get the channels in a Team.

• Send message to send a message to a Team channel.

Ref Doc:

1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-powershell-overview

2. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/microsoftgraph/get-started?view=graph-powershell-1.0