Worth Reading – Record Teams Membership Snapshots Easily with PowerShell
I’m not surprised that it was a lawyer who asked Tony about this:
A lawyer asked me if it was possible to take a snapshot of Teams memberships (people who were members at a point in time). PowerShell makes this easy.
This has come up before, usually when we talk about things posted or linked to in a Teams chat or channel.
- Was the person in question a member of that team at the time this was shared?
- Did they read what was shared?
The second question is always a bit tricky, because we know that having something shared with you doesn’t mean you read it. (For the record, I’ve always found it somewhat disingenuous that we ask custodians about emails they received and assume they read them, compared to the number of emails I send that I know darn well don’t get read.) But, I digress.
The first question was always a little trickier, and though Tony’s method would work, there is still a trick to it; you have to take the snapshots occasionally. You still can’t look back over a long period and see who was in a Teams channel at a given time unless you’re thinking ahead and taking snapshots.
What are the chances that you’ll start doing that? I’m guessing that unless you’re in a highly litigious industry with some channels that are more likely to be part of a case, few will bother. Still, it’s good to be able to show people that they could do it if they wanted to.
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