Cli-microsoft365: New command: Create a Microsoft Teams team with a custom template

[vman]

Create a new Microsoft Teams team by specifying a custom template.

• command: graph teams add --templateFile <templateFilePath>
• templateFilePath - Path of the json file describing the teams custom template
• Graph API Endpoint (beta) - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/team-post?view=graph-rest-beta

[vman]

I could pickup this one up @waldekmastykarz if you think the syntax is Ok.

[waldekmastykarz]

Great suggestion @vman! This is actually a duplicate of #794. @kshsbala has just submitted a PR with the basic add command #862. Once I've processed it, we could extend it with the support for templates. @BobGerman wanted to pick it up initially, but I haven't heard from him lately, so let's see where we stand when the PR is merged, ok? I'm going to close this one so that we can track it in #794.

[BobGerman]

Hey @waldekmastykarz , @vman - I'm interested in this but may not have the cycles to keep up with you all. I'd love to collaborate with you on this @vman if it makes sense. I've been working on a set of (Node) Azure functions that use these template "files" to provision; there may be some reuse opportunity.
https://github.com/BobGerman/TeamsProvisioning

My vision is O365 CLI commands to extract and test these "templates" and then a provisioning engine to build Teams in production. Is that where you're going?

[waldekmastykarz]

Ideally you should be able to use the CLI to both extract a template from an existing Team and provision a Team using a template. The latter is already supported by a Graph API and uses a formalized template structure which makes it better to ensure that the generated template is exchangeable between the CLI and other solutions/provisioning engines.

[waldekmastykarz]

@vman if you're still interested in doing this, would you mind creating a new issue with a spec to extend the existing graph teams add command with support for templates?

[vman]

@waldekmastykarz I will create the new issue with the proposed spec but I don't think I will have the cycles to work on it soon. Happy for someone else to pick it up.

[waldekmastykarz]

Perfect! Appreciate your help 👏