OneNote is broken on Teams
Late last week, OneNote on Teams stopped working whether you are using the desktop application or the web based. Creating a new OneNote tab on Teams, it still does not work as well. All we get for a message is:
"We can't access this notebook.
You might not have permissions to view it, but your IT Admin show be able to help you."
Previously, OneNote had been working. If OneNote is accessed directly with OneNote application, it will work fine.
This appears to be a bug on Teams as others are reporting the same issues as well. Could this be checked out and fixed?
Chris Ficek
shared this idea
If you are hitting the document library of 20,000 items please try this solution.
It is a known issue for OneNote.
(Let’s try that again with the correct link :) ) https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/onenotedev/2016/09/11/onenote-api-calls-fail-with-a-large-number-of-items-in-a-sharepoint-document-library/
If you are experiencing something else, please let me know the error messages you are seeing in the comments below.
-Warren
42 comments
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Anonymous
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OneNote is soooo slllloowwwww and unreliable in MSTeams, that I have resorted to using a Wiki as an alternative (available out of box in MSTeams)
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Ron de Koe commented
When I add a existing OneNote in a tab, I can see the sections (greyed) but no content.
If I open the OneNote with the browser I see the content and can edit it.
Is this a common issue ? What to do -
MNS
commented
Having this problem too...
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Anonymous
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Onenote as tab is showing an empty page in teams for desktop. In teams for web the onenote is showed as correctly!
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Duncan
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20,000 items is 0.67% of the 30,000,000 items that could be stored in a document library, so find it absurd that 20K is referred to as a "large number of items".
For some teams in our organisation 20K just scratches the surface of the number of items they might store in a library. To be denied OneNote integration in a Team because of this limitation with the API is not a situation we are able accept.
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Fleur
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The link provided by Warren is no longer available :-( I really need a solution to be able to add a OneNote to our Team!
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Anonymous
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I click on OneNote tab in team and get this error:
Sorry, we're having trouble getting your notebook.SessionId: 86be1294-99c6-47c0-becb-58371f19aa0c
Mon, 18 Mar 2019 19:57:56 GMTI'm trying to champion adoption of OneNote in my large company as slack killer....don't think I can do that anymore argh.
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Paul Hutchinson
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This is sad, a two year old deficiency in OneNote's API breaks Teams functionality.
We've been instructed by management to use Teams and OneNote.
Things where going OK. then Microsoft consultants convinced management that we need to move the engineering files library off of a local file server and keep it all on SharePoint. I got about two thirds of the files migrated and then learn it breaks the ability to pin a OneNote notebook to a Teams site.
Come on Microsoft get your act together, it's stupidity like this that keep me from using Office for most business and personal usage.
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Anonymous
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When I go to add One Note the page appears with no options.
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Pat
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We are still having all the same or similar issues mentioned by all others posting here.
I don't want to just repeat what everyone else is reporting, so I'll keep it as brief as possible:
When our O365 Administrator sets all the members of our pilot team to allow editing of the shared Teams / OneNote Notebook, it will work for a couple hours, but inevitably we lose our edit permissions and are only able to view.
Teams logs don't show me anything pointing to a permissions error, but then I'm not exactly sure what I should be looking for in the log for my individual Teams log.
Please FIX this ASAP. -
Pat
commented
We are still having all the same or similar issues mentioned by all others posting here.
I don't want to just repeat what everyone else is reporting, so I'll keep it as brief as possible:
When our O365 Administrator sets all the members of our pilot team to allow editing of the shared Teams / OneNote Notebook, it will work for a couple hours, but inevitably we lose our edit permissions and are only able to view.
Teams logs don't show me anything pointing to a permissions error, but then I'mnot exactly sure what I should be looking for in the log for my individual Teams log.
Please FIX this ASAP. -
Larry Hector
commented
OneNote inside Teams says I don't have access to notes for this meeting.
I'm the group owner.
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Anonymous
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Our educational Institution is trialing Teams and OneNote Colaboration spaces. It appears to be becoming a disaster.
Sections are created for a couple of students at a time. As soon as the nominated students start working in this space they get conflict issues, overrides, access issues.
It seems this OneNote collaboration space only works if 1 person uses it at a time!
Is there a solution to this?!? -
Stewart Campbell
commented
When I click on my OneNote tab in a team channel it says I do not have access even though I do. When I click the prompt to get access and enter my password the one note opens up. And it has the notes that I input via the Teams one note tab when it was functioning. So it’s the correct one note. But it is no longer really available from the tab like it should be.
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Anonymous
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copy pages in desktop onenote into Team onenote and it keep freezes. notes not being updated in team. please fix this. would like to use Team to manage everything that is required for the project.
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Anonymous
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Where did my comments in a OneNote page go?!? I have a Note created through a Microsoft Teams site that we have been using and updating for the last 4-5 months as part of this project. Over the last 3 days, updates to a page in OneNote lost all the edits and updates. This occurred on 6/7/2018. These updates were done over a Skype web conference so many saw the updates and contributed to the content. Teams showed it was saving. Now, today, the content is reverted to the original content outline from 6/5/2018. Nothing is available in the recycle bin to restore the lost work. This is frustrating and difficult to evangelize this for collaboration.
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John White commented
Thanks Warren - although to be clear - that's not a solution - it simply avoids the issue. In our case, the >20,000 items in a library is a necessary business requirement, and we can't bring it under.
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Rick
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Sorry, we can't perform the request if one of the user or group's document libraries contains more than 20,000 items. I get the same type of notice using the webclipper. Help.
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Rebekah
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I am having the same exact issue. Is there a fix to this??
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Scott
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Tried to add an external guest to a Team. The guest can get access to everything in the Team except for the Class Notebook.
The error is:
We're having trouble with finding your notebook.
Try refreshing the page after a few minutes or check back later.
Does ClassNotebook not support this? If so where is the documentation?