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pnthrzrule
Iron Contributor
Jan 16, 2020

Can't Assign a Team Owner to a Task in MS Teams

So, I am a member of a team with 2 owners. I am a global admin...but not the owner of the the team. I created a planner and a task I assigned 2 members of the team to the task When I click on ass...
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pnthrzrule
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PeterMortensen I honestly don't remember. I feel like I had to remove the owner and add them back or something like that. Sorry for not remembering and good luck!

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PeterMortensen
Copper Contributor
Mar 23, 2020

pnthrzrule Thanks for getting back to me in any case!

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    Tony Storbäck
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 15, 2020

    Hi PeterMortensen and pnthrzrule, we just had a similar case at our end. 

     

    So a task in Planner could not be assigned to one of the team owners. 

     

    Solution. The owner has to also be member on the underlying Office365 group. This can be checked and set in O365 Admin Center -> Groups. Search the group and check Members. The owner you could not assign a task is probably not listed as member. Once you add the owner as member you should be able to assign the task to the owner.
     
    I have noticed that this is also the reason for error message "Failed to create the plan" that owners might face in Teams when trying to add a Planner tab.
     
    For more detailed info please read this blog post
     
    Hope this helps!
     
    br, Tony
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      PeterMortensen
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 15, 2020

      Hi Tony Storbäck, thank you very much for sharing! I am not an admin unfortunately, so can't say yet if this was the problem - sounds likely though. Hopefully this will solve my issue, once I get IT on it.

       

      Thanks again 😄 

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