View Planner tasks on your Outlook calendar

Any updates on this? Has anyone tried Winston William's workaround?

This "integration" has never worked properly.  Once you've published the web calendar and opened it in Outlook, one-way updates only occur rarely, and in some instances not at all.  But there is a workaround that at least makes it minimally functional.  Please note, this only works for local instances of Outlook, not the online (OWA) version:

1. Publish the project calendar in Planner, but do not click "Add to Outlook"
2. Copy the iCal link provided
3. Open desktop version of Outlook
4. Go to:  File / Account Settings / Account Settings
5. Open tab "Internet Calendars"
6. Click "New..."
7. Paste the iCal link from your project, and click "Add"
8. Now double-click the calendar you just added (or select, and click "Change...")
9. Rename the folder to something more friendly in the field "Folder Name"
10. Uncheck the checkbox under "Update Limit"
11. Click OK
12. Click "Close" to close out the settings MDI

Now, instead of updating at odd, seemingly random intervals, you can add the calendar to a Send/Receive group (or just the default group) and set any interval please.  You can also include the group in the F9 Send/Receive updates to force an update whenever you like.

This is a ridiculous work-around, and it shouldn't be necessary, but at least it lets you see current Planner scheduled items in Outlook (and in overlapping calendars, no less!).  I don't hold out hope that we'll see this rumored Outlook plugin any time soon, and those plugins are always a gigantic stability nightmare in any case.  It would have been far better if they'd gone with direct integration through Exchange, but I guess that's just not in the cards.

Hope this helps someone,

Weston