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FireDog
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Jan 06, 2021
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Team Creation with Graph API not creating SharePoint site

Hi   I am using Powershell / GraphAPI to create:   A M365 Dynamic Group Then a Team based on this Group   The issue i have is both are created as expected, but I never get a Sharepoint Group L...
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    FireDog
    May 17, 2021

    Shane_Blake Hi - thanks for reply. I actually raised a PS call in the end, and it turned out to be a problem that Microsoft had to fix at the back end - related to creating the SharePoint site on the time. I think it was a timing issue.

     

    It wasnt fixed as part of my call, sounds like it was being fixed anyway.

     

    I did read about the direct members - i add them now as part of my code anyway so we dont have just an owner without being a member. But it doesnt seem to effect anything for me if they are just owners - the site creation is all via Graph anyway so it doesnt care. 

     

    Im using AD groups (on prem) and have a sync framework to manage membership - it fits in with our onboarding processes so we can assign Teams to departments / functions using AD Attributes, and the AD groups add 'exceptions' ie someone from department A wants to join the department B team, we drop them in the Exceptions AD group for the Department B team and the script does the rest. Ideal for Service Desk / integration into a JLT process. Decided to avoid cmdlets and do purely RESTAPI as ive hit so many issues with bugs.

     

    Cheers

     

     

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Vesa Nopanen
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Jan 24, 2021
It is not about permissions, but the fact that the SharePoint folders are created later in the provisioning. The fastest way to create them is to go ahead and click on Files tab in the created channel.

However you can do a workaround
- after team creation
- retrieve the SharePoint Site information connected to the team
- retrieve the document library info (drive info: $targetDriveIDURI = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/" + $teamID + "/drive" )
- knowing you channel name create a dummy file in the channel (yes, the channel folder doesn't exist but it is created during this process)
$createfileURI = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/drives/" + $targetDriveID +"/root:/" + $channel.displayName +"/dummy_remove.txt:/content"
$fileResponse = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Put -Uri $createfileURI -Headers @{"Authorization"="Bearer $accessToken"} -Body $createfileContent -ContentType "text/plain"

After that you have the folder available for further use.

Note: this doesn't work in Private channels. For those there is a need to wait or click in the UI.

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