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Copper Contributor

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

Shane_Blake

Copper Contributor

May 17, 2021

I was getting a similar issue, but mine where not Dynamic Groups. Read in an article that there was some idiosyncrasies between the teams client and the graph api. Turns out that the graph api for creating groups does not add "owners" to "direct members" so that when the owners access the team/site the site creation is failing as they are not added as members of the site correctly. By having the "owners" in the group "members" list when calling the API for Group it seemed to fix the issue for me.

FireDog

Copper Contributor

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