Cannot list planner plans for a private group/team if I am just in the owners list and not in the members list

Question

This seems like a bug but I cannot list planner plans of a Group or team if I'm a owner but not a member. I would assume that owners would have at least the rights of a member. When creating a private group it is not that bad because I'm added as owner and member, but this is not the case for teams, I have to add myself everytime. I don't see how this makes sense, as a Owner, I should have access to pretty much everything under that team/group.

Just for more info, I am using the call : https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/{GROUPID}/planner/plans
I am using it directly in the graph explorer and I get a 403 forbidden.
If I add myself as member and wait for some time, it will eventually return them.
I removed myself as a member again, waited for some time and got the 403s again so it is really because I am not a member.

Answer 1

Hi @Jean-François Deschênes

I know it's easy to misunderstand, but it's what it is. Even if you are already the owner of the group, but you still need to add you to the members list. See the official doc:

Note: The user who is creating the plan must be a member of the group that will own the plan. When you create a new group by using Create group, you are not added to the group as a member. After the group is created, add yourself as a member by using group post members.

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