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New Office 365 Group not shown when creating new Planner Plan
Our organization created a new Private Office 365 Group (not a Team) but when creating a new Planner Plan this group is not shown as an option to assign the Plan to. We've created Private O365 Groups...
Hello Bill_Alexander, I am experiencing something very similar in that an Owner of an Office 365 Group/Team would like to add a plan to an existing group but that group/team is not showing within the list of groups. What I did notice, was that this person had changed their group name recently and neither the new or old group name shows in the existing groups list. I have changed their group/team name back to the old one to see if that will allow them to create a new plan for an existing group.
I found a possible solution in my development environment that when I added the Owner as a Member of the same Office 365 Group that the group appears while creating a new Plan in Planner. I'm not sure if this was intended by Microsoft a user has to be both Owner & Member of the same Group or if only members have the option of associating new Plans with the group. It was unclear in the documentation online.
- Worked for me as well, thank you!
Bill_Alexander
What the actual F.
This is exactly what worked. Went into Admin, added the owners as members as well, signed out and back in, and bam, could add planners now.
This is a bug, and needs to be addressed. Owners should be able to add anything to anywhere in their Team. Goodness.I'm an owner of two Teams/Groups. As far as I know, I'm not a separate member of either. In fact, I can't seem to figure out on my own how to add myself as a member without removing ownership.
One team shows as an option when adding a plan, the other does not. I have changed the names of both teams in the past, so I don't believe it is that,
Any thoughts?
Worked for me as well. Thanks for finding this fix.
- That solved my problem too. Thanks!
Bill_Alexander This worked for me, i was already an owner of the o365 group but when trying to create a planner board to this existing group it did not show in the search box. I added myself as a member, waited a few mins and created a new planner and choose existing group and now the group was there. this is really weird.
darrennewberry For Microsoft Planner, you need to be a member of the Group. Group owners don't have versatile rights.
SanthoshB1 Yes, this worked for me as well.
