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Expand Up @@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ To access the team site for a group:
GET /groups/{group-id}/sites/root
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> [!IMPORTANT]
> This API has a known issue: when trying to access a group team site using `GET /groups/{group-id}/sites/root`, you may receive a **308 Permanent Redirect** response. If you follow the Location URL in the response header, it will lead to a **401 Unauthorized** error because the redirect targets the SharePoint REST API directly. **This happens when the group team's site has been renamed.**
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> This API has a known issue: when trying to access a group team site using `GET /groups/{group-id}/sites/root`, you may receive a **308 Permanent Redirect** response. If you follow the Location URL in the response header, it will lead to a **401 Unauthorized** error because the redirect targets the SharePoint REST API directly. **This happens when the group team's site has been renamed.**
> This API has a known issue: when trying to access a group team site using `GET /groups/{group-id}/sites/root`, you may receive a **308 Permanent Redirect** response. If you follow the Location URL in the response header, it leads to a **401 Unauthorized** error because the redirect targets the SharePoint REST API directly. This happens when the group team's site has been renamed.

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> As a workaround, you can extract the site domain and relative path from the redirect URL in the response header and then retrieve the SharePoint site by path using `GET /sites/{hostname}:/{relative-path}`. For more information, see: [Get SharePoint site by path](site-getbypath.md).

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