Unable to create Private teams via Graph API

Zion-7834 1

I am unable to create Private teams via Graph API even though the visibility is set to "Private". It creates "Public" Teams. Gives no error. This was working fine until a few days ago. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks

Deva-MSFT 2,256 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-11-18T15:51:42+00:00
Do you see any error when you make the API call to create teams?

Do you use any specific payload or template to create teams?
Zion-7834 1 Reputation point

2020-11-18T16:22:57.937+00:00
Hi @Deva-MSFT
No Error comes up. It just creates a Public team.
The request look lilke...

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams

"template@odata.bind": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teamsTemplates('standard')", "visibility": "Private", "displayName": "Class 1", "description": "ClassID",

There is also a problem with Add, Update and Remove channels. It throws the error

Failed to execute Skype backend request GetThreadsS2SRequest

Many are having issues with production apps.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64858194/ms-graph-api-error-failed-to-execute-skype-backend-request-getthreadss2sreques/64893284#64893284

Looks like there is something seriously wrong with Graph API for Teams.
Please look into it urgently.

Thanks a lot

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Phil Rice 11 Reputation points

2020-11-18T17:19:03.493+00:00

Experiencing the same issue which started intermittently for us Nov 2nd increased in the last week to 20 to 50% of the the time and now it is 100% percent of all create Teams via graph api failing to set to private.

I have tested using APIs beta and V1.0 and the same behaviour. Also , using the 'Create Team' action in Power Automate when set to private fails to set and creates as public (no doubt as it is using Graph API). Tested in 3 different tenants and the same results.

I second this looking into urgently - we are running an azure automation script every 15 minutes to find the public teams and set them to private to mitigate this currently.
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Zion-7834 1 Reputation point

2020-11-18T17:30:22.647+00:00

Hi anonymous user-3758 Thanks for the confirmation. V r a non-profit and have support privilege. If u do have please raise a support ticket in the Azure Portal. Thanks a lot
Also support the issue at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64884549/unable-to-create-private-teams-via-graph-api?noredirect=1#comment114739575_64884549

Phil Rice 11 Reputation points

2020-11-18T23:45:16.873+00:00

I was going to raise a ticket but I currently have quite a few open so we are trying to hand this one over to a support partner that we work with for them to raise and handle it - I find the tickets quite time consuming tbh.
I have sent out a heads up email to a m365 managers group for UK Universities (Im in EDU) and already had a couple of responses acknowledging it is an issue with one stating it is a very serious for them and they were not aware of it, so I imagine a few tickets will be getting raised.

Zion-7834 1 Reputation point

2020-11-19T02:05:42.977+00:00

anonymous user-3758 Indeed it is very serious b'coz anyone can join a Public team. Phew! what an havoc it can cause in a Uni. Thanks and please keep this post updated.
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Nikitha-MSFT 541 Reputation points

2020-11-19T10:47:15.69+00:00

We are able to repro the issue at our end. Raised a bug, We don't have ETA to share when it will be fixed.

Thanks,

Nikitha.

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Zion-7834 1 Reputation point

2020-11-19T16:02:40.137+00:00

@Nikitha-MSFT Thanks for the update.
This a serious issue and can cause Data Protection issues by having unwanted people in a team. So Kindly push for a quick fix and keep us updated. Also there has been other serious issues all related to Graph API for Teams.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-graph/failed-to-execute-skype-backend-request-getthreadss2srequest/m-p/1889559
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64858194/ms-graph-api-error-failed-to-execute-skype-backend-request-getthreadss2sreques
Probably this is part of a bigger problem. It would be good if you make a collective case to the ENG team.
Thanks
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Zion-7834 1 Reputation point

2020-11-26T09:06:58.707+00:00

@Deva-MSFT @Nikitha-MSFT Any updates on the fix for this urgent issue?
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Nikitha-MSFT 541 Reputation points

2020-11-26T12:59:04.013+00:00

We are looking into it, we don't have ETA to share when it will be fixed.

Phil Rice 11 Reputation points

2020-11-27T00:07:39.163+00:00

This seems to be fixed for us now and has been working since Monday in our live Flow that uses it.

Deva-MSFT 2,256 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-11-27T09:12:44.07+00:00

Thanks for the confirmation anonymous user-3758 !!

Phil Rice 11 Reputation points

2020-11-27T21:01:37.983+00:00

I have been informed by some MS Partner contacts that they still have clients (in EDU) with this issue however, so maybe a fix is rolling out but not yet applied to everyone?

Zion-7834 1 Reputation point

2020-11-28T02:04:39.46+00:00

@Deva-MSFT Could you please check with the Eng team and give a clear answer if this has been fixed or not. This adhoc way of working is causing major issues in EDU space. Thanks
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