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Removing Users from a Plan
- Indeed! This is by design! Members of the plan corresponds to members of the Office 365 group! You can add and remove members to a plan but all it does is basically add/removes this members from the office 365 group!
There’s no way currently to add or remove members of any group plans without also add/remove from group
Sorry for the late reply. Yes, I am aware of that. If you look at my original message, I mentioned that we had created individual plans for each of the smaller groups. What we wanted to do was trim down who were the members of those plans, but had found that when we went to do so that it removed those people from not just the plans, but the Office 365 group completely.
Regardless, thanks for your response.
JohnnyGman I just experienced this.
I have a few "Plans" under one "Team". 2 of them needed to be deleted. I removed members, because I'd rather have it not show up as useless plans vs. deleting. But it ended up removing them from the group. This is absurd to me. The fact you can have multiple plans under 1 Team, but if you remove a member of a specific "Plan" it removes them from the "Team".
Not only that, but if you read this article (https://support.office.com/en-us/article/delete-a-task-or-plan-39e10e78-13f0-446d-94cd-9e562648497) it says:
"Every plan is also an Office 365 Group. When you delete a plan, you also permanently delete the group. This removes all group conversations, email, files, calendar events, and related information. You must be a group administrator to delete a plan."
I looked at the "Groups" in the Admin Center and no groups were named the same as my plans. So I assumed, because when I removed people from a "Plan" it removed them from the Team/Group, that if I deleted the the "Plan" it would also delete the Group. This is absurd.... The lack of clarity on something that can dramatically change/permanently delete a companies data with incredibly poor and conflicting documentation is not acceptable at an enterprise level. If this is by design adam deltinger then WOW.
vivekdipole Unfortunately, the documentation is poorly worded, every Plan is not a Group, these are two very separate objects, however they are connected to another.
Every Plan uses a Group, multiple Plans can use the same Group, The Group contains the accounts,
Plans don't have members, the Group the Plan is connected to contains the members, so that if you remove someone from a Plan, then they are removed from the Group.
You currently cannot have sub-groups of people assigned to different Plans.
If you want to plan different things, with different groups of people, then you need different Groups.
How did you originally create the Plan, if you added it to an existing SharePoint site or Team, then they could have been renamed since they were created which could cause the connected Group to have a different name than what you expected.
