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Team / Group Owner has to be a member as well to access Planner and add Planner Tab in Teams
I created a new Microsoft Team via the Teams Admin Center. Unfortunately I was not able to Access the corresponding Planner Plan in Planner nor I was able to add a new Planner Plan as a tab in Micros...
Unfortunately what you have experienced work in that way and it's by design...it's not enough to be an Owner, the user needs also to be a member
Yes, but it is still a Bug in my opinion and should definitely not work like this by design.
- I am an Admin and create a new Team in the Teams Admin Center where I define the owner of the group in the creation process
- The Team is created, but the owner I defined is just an owner and not an owner and a member in the same time
- The user as a owner now can't access the planner plan of the team, because he is not a member as well
- When I add the User also to the list of members in O365 Admin Center, than MS Teams thinks that this user is just a member, even though he is in both roles listed. The user now can't edit the Teams setting for his team anymore.
- I know have to define another owner for the group, remove the original owner from the team and add him again to the team as a member and make him an owner
- Now the user is correctly a owner and a member at the same time
Workaround is to create a team with an admin as a first owner, add all members and make some owners and than remove the admin from the team. That is very confusing and time consuming.
Michael Böhm , we see the EXACT same issue, where after the owner is made both an owner & a member in the group, the Teams application only sees them as a member.
The group & Teams admin center both still show the user as an owners, but they can no longer manage the team.
A 2nd team owner must make them an owner again in the Teams application to resolve it so they can add a Planner tab AND manage the Team.
Out of curiosity, was the tenant where you saw this behavior in the GCC?- thanks this fixed it for me also!
I just had exactly same problem. One of the Team owners could not access a planner in his own Team.
I had to add this user to the Team members in Office 365 group. Problem solved!
Thanks for suggestion :)
I just found out that when I add the user to the list of members via Azure AD than it works. Via O365 Admin Center -> Groups ... that it does not work.
