The new Microsoft Planner: New task features for organizations with frontline workers

Replies to the previous questions and comments

1. Timing for availability in Sweden stinarigback  
The features in this blog post are part of the task publishing feature. Task publishing requires a hierarchy of teams to be uploaded by an admin as a prerequisite for enabling the feature.  The hierarchy of teams allows someone in a parent team to publish to child teams at the bottom of the hierarchy. You can learn more about the setup steps here.

2. Timing for ability to upgrade existing plans colbourne25 
If I'm understanding your question correctly, it's about when you'll be able to take an existing Planner plan and convert/upgrade it to a premium plan. If you are referring to Planner plans that are not used with task publishing, you should be able to do this today. When you select the standard plan, you should see the view options at the top of the screen, and some of those views should have a diamond icon next to them. If you choose that view, you should see an option to upgrade the plan.  (Keep in mind that some view options may appear in the ... menu.)  It is not currently possible to upgrade plans that are in use with task publishing. If that's what you had in mind, please let us know, as this would be helpful input and we may have a few follow-up questions.

3. Really the top-requested features? PetrKrenzelok 
Yes, the top features for Planner as a whole are tracked here. These features in this blog post are more specifically the top-requested features from frontline organizations. Frontline organizations are those organizations at which the majority of employees are distributed across many different locations, and the company depends on those distributed "frontline" employees to carry out work at those respective locations in order to achieve key business results. Examples include store employees in a retail organization, medical providers at clinics in a health care organization, and factory operators in a manufacturing organization. We have designed special features for frontline organizations, including a feature known as task publishing. These features allow frontline organizations to centrally define and distribute tasks across those locations (providing clarity for frontline managers and workers) and see how that work is going (providing clarity for business leaders). All the new and improved capabilities above are in response to the requests we've received from frontline customers. On that note, if you're part of a frontline organization and you have a different set of requests, we'd be interested to hear a little more about your requests and the related use cases if you're willing to share.

4. Where to find task publishing features and the differences between the premium plans KianaDiaz

• Where to find these features: The features in the blog post above are part of the task publishing experience, which available in the Planner app in Microsoft Teams on desktop/web, as long as your organization has uploaded a hierarchy of teams. The hierarchy of teams defines which teams can publish to other teams -- someone who's a member of a parent team will be able publish to any of their child teams at the bottom of the hierarchy. An admin must define and upload this hierarchy as a prerequisite for using this feature. You can learn more about the setup steps here.
• Differences between the premium licenses: Here is a summary that provides an overview of the license options for the premium capabilities: Compare All Planner Options and Prices| Microsoft Planner

Thanks to each of you for your comments and questions. I hope this info will help. Also, I apologize for the slow response time. I'll aim to reply faster in the future.