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What’s new in Microsoft Planner – August 2025

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NancyatMSFT
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Aug 28, 2025
Our team has released a range of updates in Microsoft Planner’s Project Manager agent including improved suggestions, and seamless access through existing premium plans, and a new entry point in the ...
Updated Sep 16, 2025
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tvaughn12
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Sep 08, 2025

The disappointment I felt when I read through this blog... Once again, Microsoft continues to develop its AI Project Manager and remains quiet on the status key features that are needed to make Planner a cohesive and useful project planning system:

  • Any features that basic Planner has, Premium Planner should have (i.e., integrated chat, ability to view on mobile app, etc).
  • My team has complained multiple times about the inability to edit Premium Plan tasks in the My Tasks tabs-- something that really should have been available upon the initial merging of the Planner and Project. I would also like to be able to see a Buckets column on the My Task page. 
  • Portfolios, while a good concept, is not very useful for my Team because you can't sort rows or link to the Plan. 
  • The My Plans page is weak and needs an upgrade. No option to view all Plans you are apart of and sort them. The search feature will often say it can't find a plan and prompts me to click a "Search more Plans" button and then it will find it. Why doesn't it perform a search of all plans initially?
  • Ability to prevent others from deleting tasks or Plans and the ability to restore tasks or Plans. 
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AdamWithTechnologyBiased
Copper Contributor
Sep 16, 2025

Did ya'll see the two updates recently posted to the Roadmap (see below)?  I'd like to know who the portfolio/project/product manager for this entire thing is that they've gotten themselves into?  And, how big is the team?  Like one US Product Owner and 2 overseas developers?

 

Planner: New Microsoft Planner app for Microsoft Teams in GCC High and DoD

After further review, we will not be rolling this out to DoD. We apologize for any inconvenience. The new Microsoft Planner app in Teams is a single, unified work management experience.

Added to roadmap: 04/23/2025
Last modified: 09/11/2025

 

Planner: New Microsoft Planner app for the web in DOD

After further review we have decided not to proceed with this change at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. The new Microsoft Planner app for the web is a single, unified work management experience.

Added to roadmap: 05/06/2025
Last modified: 09/09/2025

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    Tickers
    Brass Contributor
    Sep 16, 2025

    Very good point.  The same thoughts occurred to me when I started looking at the"Roadmap".  I assumed the lack of adding fundamental features the majority are asking for, was due to MS focusing on the DoD and GCC, so its a double kick in the teeth for us.  This news is not a small thing, its huge for us users.

    Planner to me operates like a beta testing project, so us a customers need to see accountability and authenticity from MS.  They want us as businesses to essentially bet and risk our time, effort and money, on something that could be scrapped, or changed with little notice beyond usefulness.

    The gas lighting from them is also particularly provocative.  They say one thing and do another.  This has been going on for too long.

    Yes, we want to know as project managers... show us the project brief, the plan, the commitment of resource.