If you’re with us at Microsoft Ignite this year—happening right now in Orlando, FL—you’ve already heard the big news about Microsoft Planner and Microsoft Teams. And if you’re not here, we’ve got you...
Updated Nov 03, 2019
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Announcing Tasks in Teams, a coherent task management experience in Teams.
Sean_Cedar Looking over a number of release pages I am beginning to think that this application will act like Teams does to SharePoint.
Teams is a layer that sits on SharePoint.
The new lists is a layer that sits on top of SharePoint Lists.
Now the Tasks for Teams app is a layer that sits on top of planner and todo and is baked into teams.
I looked at SharePoint years ago while I was a Box user. Now that Microsoft is building its UI and packaging everything together it will make it easier for people with all levels of experiences to use the eco-system. I am now fully adopted from Box to SharePoint.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-the-tasks-app-in-teams-e32639f3-2e07-4b62-9a8c-fd706c12c070?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
Just like secure private channels was an after thought for Teams, I am going to assume that My Day and recurring tasks will make its way into Tasks for teams, but not right now.
Teams is about teams. However, that being said, I have no access to the new tasks view at the moment.