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NickBeagin
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Apr 03, 2020
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Groups are created by SDS but not teams

SDS works fine in that it creates groups but not teams.
Teachers cannot see the groups to make teams from either even though they are owners of the group.
Groups appear in assignments in the Teams app.
What am I missing here.

  • NickBeagin 

    That Is supposed to be the correct behavior if your SDS profile was created before the deadline specified in the article. Ours was created a day before so over half of our Teams did get created. The other half had errors that required us to do a reset of the sync. No Teams have been created by SDS after that.

     

    I ended up using PowerShell to create the missing teams.

     

    For those curious:

    You will need the Azure AD and Microsoft Teams PowerShell modules installed.

    Connect to both Azure AD and Microsoft Teams using your O365 admin credentials.

    SDS does not add a description to the group when created, so we put all groups with empty descriptions into a variable. A description is added to the group when a Team is create for it.

    We further reduced the list of groups in the variable to only those we need. All of our section groups have the semester and period in the name, so we use that as our filter. Anyone else's names may vary and will need to adjust for it.

    We then create a team for each group.

     

     

     

    Connect-AzureAD
    Connect-MicrosoftTeams
    $tgroups=Get-AzureADGroup -All $true  | Where-Object {$_.Description -eq $null}
    $tgroups = $tgroups | Where-Object { $_.DisplayName -like '*-S2-P*' }
    $tgroups | ForEach-Object {new-team -group $_.objectid}

     

     

     

     

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  • rzuchowski's avatar
    rzuchowski
    Copper Contributor

    NickBeagin  Has anyone found a solution for this yet ? My groups create but no teams. I login as the teacher in Teams and nothing prompts me for the new team, if i go to create a team it doesnt give me the option to join by group. Im stumped. In the security groups it creates, it doesnt add the teachers to it either. Just creates the group. We are syncing from Powerschool API. 

    • mwill1280's avatar
      mwill1280
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      rzuchowski  I don't know if this is still an issue for people, but in SDS, when you create the profile, there's a check box to create Teams.  If you've already created a profile and you want to go back and create teams, you would need to Edit the profile and check the Teams Creation box and then Re-sync the profile.

      • colmic1965's avatar
        colmic1965
        Copper Contributor
        I tried it but it only created the m365 groups but not the teams. Did it work for you?
  • NickBeagin's avatar
    NickBeagin
    Copper Contributor

    NickBeagin 

     

    I got pointed to this
    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/create-a-class-team-in-microsoft-teams-preview-fae422eb-58b7-4431-9ff2-a4b9b6ae7c5b?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

    Supposed to roll out this week..

     

     

    • Mgutierrez215's avatar
      Mgutierrez215
      Copper Contributor

      NickBeagin

      Thanks for the tip. It helped me find the reason why teams are no longer created automatically.

       

      Microsoft made changes to the provisioning behavior.

      Teams are no longer created when data is synced using SDS.

      Teachers must create a new team and then use the group to "assist" them with adding the students.

      https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/SchoolDataSync/changes-to-class-teams-provisioning

       

      I Truly hope this create class from group feature rolls out soon.

      • Milkamax's avatar
        Milkamax
        Copper Contributor

        Mgutierrez215 

         

        Do you know why Microsoft change this option of create Teams ?

         

        I don't find the option for create a Team For a group in my organization:

         

        i must settings something ?

         

        I think i'm gone do a Scripting powershell based on my CSV Section, i could sharing you if you want.

         

        thanks for your answer and sorry for my bad English 😉

  • Milkamax's avatar
    Milkamax
    Copper Contributor

    NickBeagin 

    We got the same issu to somes Teams are create and some not.

     

    All groups are well created.

     

    Don't find the reason too

  • Mgutierrez215's avatar
    Mgutierrez215
    Copper Contributor

    NickBeagin 

    We are also experiencing the same issue. SDS creates the groups and Teachers can see them as assignments in Teams, but no Teams created.

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