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David
David

Reputation: 817

O365 Group Site Creation (SharePoint Site)

By default, when creating an O365 Group, the SharePoint Site that provides document storage for the Group is not created automatically. It gets created on demand when a user navigates to the site for the first time.

I had a provisioning script that got around this problem by making a HTTP GET request to the URL that the user would normally navigate to from Outlook, which looked like: https://[tenant].sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/groupstatus.aspx?id=[groupId]&target=documents

Something must have changed recently because this no longer triggers the Site creation, so my script times out.

Looking at the network traffic when I manually create a group and navigate to the site, I see some calls being made to https://[tenant].sharepoint.com/_api/GroupSiteManager/Create?groupId='[groupId]';

Is this "GroupSiteManager" endpoint documented anywhere, or is there an established (supported) method for forcing the Group Site to be created automatically?

I am using a Provider Hosted Add-In in conjunction with a middle tier processing API, both in Azure, Authenticated with Azure AD (WindowsAzureBearerAuthentication), and Application Permissions to Microsoft Graph.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 354

Answers (1)

LeFlay
LeFlay

Reputation: 56

I created an O365 Group with MS Graph and got an resource not found error when i tried to retrieve information about the site right after that - a assume the same is happening for you. However, when i tried again a few seconds later it came up with all the information i needed. Maybe try a GET to this:

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/<your group id>/drive/root/webUrl

at least for me it gave this information after the second try within a few seconds:

cache-control: private
content-type: application/json;odata.metadata=minimal;odata.streaming=true;IEEE754Compatible=false;charset=utf-8
request-id: <some id>
client-request-id: <some id>
Status Code: 200
{
    "@odata.context": https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#groups(<your group id>)/drive/root/webUrl",
    "value": "https://<your tennant>.sharepoint.com/sites/<generated SharePoint name>/Shared%20Documents"
}

Upvotes: 1

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