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escupham
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Sep 04, 2018

Group creation no longer provisioning Planner board

We have an automated Group creation process using Microsoft graph and prior to last week, the creation of a Group automatically provisioned the associated SharePoint Site and Planner Board.  This past week, we found that the associated SPO site and Planner board are now longer automatically provisioned when we create the Group via the graph.  Is this by design?  Why the change?

 

It's causing us issues as we have enabled Planner, and folks request a Planner Board/Group and we automate the provisioning of it, however it will no longer automatically create the Planner Board.  We were sending a direct link to the Planner board out to the users.

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  • Tejas Mehta's avatar
    Tejas Mehta
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    Sep 05, 2018

    Thanks Erin.  I can chime in from the SharePoint side, and adding ErayC from Planner.

     

    Can you share some details on how you are creating the groups themselves?  You mention you are using graph - can you paste a code snippet please?

     

    Alternatively, you can open a support ticket.  Generally speaking, groups created via MS Graph result in the synchronous creation of the SharePoint site.

     

    Thanks,

    Tejas

    • escupham's avatar
      escupham
      Steel Contributor
      Sep 06, 2018

      $GroupName="NameOfYourGroup"
      $upn="someone@somewhere.onmicrosoft.com"
      #$upn = $requestBody.upn

      $TenantID=Get-AutomationVariable -Name 'TenantID'
      $AppID=Get-AutomationVariable -Name 'AppID'
      $AppSecret=Get-AutomationVariable -Name 'AppSecret'
      # Make email address safe...
      $EMail = $GroupName.Trim().Replace(" ","-")

      Write-Output "TenantID: $TenantID AppID: $AppID AppSecret: $AppSecret"
      Write-Output "GroupName: $GroupName EMail: $EMail UPN: $upn"

      function Initialize-Authorization {
      param
      (
      [string]
      $ResourceURL = 'https://graph.microsoft.com',

      [string]
      [parameter(Mandatory)]
      $TenantID,

      [string]
      [Parameter(Mandatory)]
      $ClientKey,

      [string]
      [Parameter(Mandatory)]
      $AppID
      )

      $Authority = "https://login.windows.net/$TenantID/oauth2/token"

      [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Web") | Out-Null
      $EncodedKey = [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlEncode($ClientKey)

      $body = "grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=$AppID&client_secret=$EncodedKey&resource=$ResourceUrl"

      # Request a Token from the graph api
      $result = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post `
      -Uri $Authority `
      -ContentType 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' `
      -Body $body

      $script:APIHeader = @{'Authorization' = "Bearer $($result.access_token)" }
      Write-Output $result
      }


      # Initialize Authorization
      Initialize-Authorization -TenantID $TenantID -ClientKey $AppSecret -AppID $AppID


      # Check if group is already existing
      try {
      $uri = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups?`$filter=startswith(mail,'$EMail')"

      $result = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get `
      -Uri $uri `
      -ContentType 'application/json' `
      -Headers $script:APIHeader `

      # and save the generated Group ID
      $GroupID = $result.value.id
      Write-Output "GroupID: $GroupID"
      } catch {
      Write-Output "ERROR! $_"
      }

      # If $GroupID is empty...
      Write-Output "[$GroupID]"
      if ([bool]$GroupID)
      {
      $msg = "EXISTING: $EMail, $GroupID"
      }
      else
      {
      $msg = "CREATED: $EMail, $GroupID"

      # Create the Office 365 group
      $json = @"
      {
      "description": "$GroupName",
      "displayName": "$GroupName",
      "groupTypes": [
      "Unified"
      ],
      "mailEnabled" : true,
      "mailNickname": "$Email",
      "securityEnabled" : false,
      "visibility" : "Private",
      "classification" : "Unclassified"

      }
      "@


      try {
      $result = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post `
      -Uri "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups" `
      -ContentType 'application/json' `
      -Headers $script:APIHeader `
      -Body $json `
      -ErrorAction Stop

      # and save the generated Group ID
      $GroupID = $result.id
      Write-Output "GroupID: $GroupID"
      } catch {
      Write-Output "ERROR! $_"
      }

      # Get the User ID
      try {
      $OwnerObject = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get `
      -Uri "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/$upn" `
      -ContentType 'application/json' `
      -Headers $script:APIHeader `
      -ErrorAction Stop
      Write-Output $OwnerObject.UserPrincipalName
      } catch {
      Write-Output "ERROR! $_"
      }

      # Add User as Owner
      $json = @"
      { "@odata.id": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/$($OwnerObject.id)" }
      "@

      try {
      $result = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post `
      -Uri "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/$GroupID/owners/`$ref" `
      -ContentType 'application/json' `
      -Headers $script:APIHeader `
      -Body $json `
      -ErrorAction Stop
      Write-Output "Added owner: $GroupID"
      } catch {
      Write-Output "ERROR! $_"
      }


      # add user as Member
      try {
      $result = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post `
      -Uri "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/$GroupID/members/`$ref" `
      -ContentType 'application/json' `
      -Headers $script:APIHeader `
      -Body $json `
      -ErrorAction Stop
      Write-Output "Added member: $GroupID"
      } catch {
      Write-Output "ERROR! $_"
      }

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