Office Groups - Planner > 'Add to existing O365 group' not available due to access restrictions

[Eric Deferm]

Question related to security and the option to create Office Groups. To avoid proliferation of O365 groups, we've limited the option to create new Office Groups to a small team of power users. We expected the option to link/connect a NEW plan with an existing Office Group to be available at all times, regardless whether you're entitled to create a new Office Group. It seems that the option "Add to existing Office 365 Group" is only available when you can also create Office 365 groups. A user that can NOT create Office 365 Group, simply can't proceed when clicking on '+ New Plan'.

- Is this standard behavior?

- Can we expect the option to create New Plans and 'Add them to an existing Office365 group' soon (w/o having access rights to create O365 Groups)?

• Dialog box when NOT having access rights to create O365 Groups:

• Dialog box when having access rights to create O365 Groups

[#2]

Yes, this by design so if you disable Groups creation you will not be able to create Planner Plans or Teams in Microsoft Teams

[#3]

Tx for your prompt reply, wish Microsoft provided a more granular approach when it comes to 'Adding' a new plan to an existing O365 group.