What's new in Microsoft Planner – June 2025

Roberto_Bojorquez​ that's very good to hear, thanks. It's definitely one of the big requests in my organisation which has a lot of Premium users.

To reference again some comments from last month's update, the following are also high priority for enterprise use (in my organisation, the lack of useful Planner development over the past year is starting to push us towards a different product):

• Backup, recovery and archiving for the default environment, either for whole plans or buckets
• Manage tasks across multiple projects, eg allow the same task in multiple projects, or create inter-project dependencies
• Give line managers ability to control incoming work requests vs capacity, and report/plan resource utilization across projects
• Expose the Schedule Mode and Hours per day options in the main Teams/SharePoint interface (not the Power App which is obscure) - this should make effort calculations much more realistic
• If you must develop Copilot features, then focus on predictable automation of repetitive functions, not trying to act like a full-scale PM. Copilot should be very low priority though, the basics above are much more important.
• Above all, seek and act on real feedback from real PMs and resource managers, not marketing diktat. A lot of development effort seems to have been diverted recently onto features no-one is asking for, with very little benefit.