Forum Discussion
Groups are created by SDS but not teams
- Apr 07, 2020
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}
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.
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.
- colmic1965Sep 23, 2020Copper ContributorI tried it but it only created the m365 groups but not the teams. Did it work for you?
- mwill1280Sep 24, 2020Copper Contributor
colmic1965 We were able to roll out over 17,500 courses for the fall semester using SDS. Which part did not work for you? Enabling the "Create Teams" when you created the profile or modifying an existing profile to enable the "Create Teams" feature?
- colmic1965Sep 27, 2020Copper Contributor
Very strange. Today I uploaded the bulk of the classes and the system created the teams. Can't complain 🙂