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Antoine HESKIA
Jan 23, 2018Brass Contributor
Connect Existing Office 365 Groups with a Microsoft Team
Hi,
I tried to follow this guide : https://www.petri.com/connect-existing-office-365-groups-microsoft-team but I do not have the option to "Add Microsoft Teams to an existing Office 365 group" ...
- Jan 23, 2018
Have you created Office 365 Groups? I just checked in my environment and it is there when I Office 365 groups available...
Dean_Gross
Jan 23, 2018Silver Contributor
Do you have permission to create new Teams? are you in the Owner role of the groups? here are the official instructions from MS, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/enhance-office-365-groups
- Jan 23, 2018As suggested by Dean, you need to be owner of the Group to have the possibility to add a team to the Group. Bear also in mind that if this Group was created from Yammer (aka Yammer Connected Group), you cannot create a Team
- Antoine HESKIAJan 23, 2018Brass Contributor
I am the owner of the group :
And here how the create Teams looks like :
As you can see there is no link to connect to an existing group !
PS : Sorry for the french screenshots...
- Dean_GrossJan 23, 2018Silver Contributor
Merci for the French lesson. I would recommend opening a ticket with Microsoft.
- Jethro SEGHERSJan 23, 2018Brass Contributor
That is another reason. I assume you have tried creating a regular team with a brand new group.
If that works, I would create a ticket with MSFT