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Feb 20, 2017
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Programmatically creation of Office 365 Groups

I can create an Office 365 Group with PnP PowerShell (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/pnp_articles/modern-experience-customizations-provisioning-sites) with no problems at all - both the Office 365 ...
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  • Mikael Svenson's avatar
    Mikael Svenson
    Aug 25, 2017

    You are one lazy.... ;)

     

    Tenant tenant = new Tenant(clientContext);
    var site = tenant.GetSitePropertiesByUrl(siteUrl, false);
    clientContext.Load(site, s => s.Status);
    site.Context.ExecuteQueryRetry();
    var status = site.Status;

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Bernd Rickenberg
Brass Contributor
Aug 24, 2017

Group creation with app-only works fine for me, now. The SharePoint site creation is started instantly and public/private is working as expected.

 

Currently, I see though an issue where the SharePoint site is in creating state for quite a while, e.g. 75 minutes.

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Tomas Paulas
Brass Contributor
Aug 25, 2017

Then I'm really wondering how you do it :) . I digged into PnPCore in GIT

UnifiedGroupsUtility.CreateUnifiedGroup

function and App-only token will create the group, add members and that's it. When its adding logo, it returns "Message: Access is denied. Check credentials and try again." and when creating site it returns "AccessDenied Message: Either scp or roles claim need to be present in the token."  In order this to work I have to request token based on users token that is calling the app. With this token I can upload the logo and set it to private/public.

 

I tried whatever possible, but still the same. Today I will try to delete the site, but I'm nearly sure if I delete the group as api-only perm. it will leave the site orphaned, because this is connected with the user token again.  So it is the user who should do the action.

 

Thank you for your advice.

 

cc: Mikael Svenson

    • Tomas Paulas's avatar
      Tomas Paulas
      Brass Contributor
      Aug 25, 2017

      OK, now I understand, but that is PowerShell. I'm talking c#. PowerShell is nice and powerfull tool for administration and automation of tasks, however we need to implement it in c# .NET webAPI that is offering integration with other business systems, so users can create group and site (that acts as project team site) on demand from the ERP system.

       

      So, I will stick to use of both tokens for now and wait with hope for Microsoft's next steps. :)

       

      Tomas

      • Mikael Svenson's avatar
        Mikael Svenson
        Iron Contributor
        Aug 25, 2017
        You can easily look at the code of the PnP posh and see what C# is behind it :)

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