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Project desktop vs Planner + project Plan 3
We are trying to plan our projects using ms Planner Premium (Plan 3). However, I get very confused because of the so many product names, subscription name, soon ending products, etc. my questions are: Which desktop tool of microsoft for project planning is running currently. If it's "Microsoft Project Online Desktop Client MSO" can this be synced with the planner premium (Plan 3)?, if yes how? I have an excel list of a Project plan with the columns below: can i manage my project in planner premium? if yes, are all this custom fields deployed in dataverse, so that I can access them from power bi? i have a project plan in an excel file with this columns. now i want to create this project plan in project plan 3, how to do it? Company Cost Center Name Company Number Account Number Cost Center Number Accounting Project Number Project Number Sub- Project number Project Leader Concept Vendor (provider) Total Cost (in contract currency) Contract Currency Project Initiated/Not Initiated Committed/Not committed Priority January, 2026 February, 2026 March, 2026 April, 2026 May, 2026 June, 2026 July, 2026 August, 2026 September, 2026 October, 2026 November, 2026 December, 2026 Q1/27 Q2/27 Q3/27 Q4/27 2028 2029 2030 What is the best practice project planning approach when i have complex projects that I have to manage, with resources, costs, projects, sub projects, sub sub projects. How do this on desktop and online? And also colaborative? when project managers have to input thier budgets, how can I create a mapping where they can input thier budgets and project related facts. Thank you in advance for you inputs and help F.A
Planner - Plan 1 - Welcome message
Hi, we're using Teams for managing our projects. We have Team "Projects" and there are many channels inside this Team. Each channel represent our project (we are HVAC company). With the basic Planner, I used to create channel "Mr. Newman" - inside that channel we have all files related to that project, we have discussions about that project and we also have Planner assigned to that project. Which works well. Since we are growing, I wanted to test the Planner Plan 1 (I like the Goals, timelines etc), however, there is a huge problem that when I create the Planner now (the premium one), it sends an E-mail to everyone. I don't want that. All of the employees are getting emails that they have been added to the planner "Mr. Newman" etc. and they are asking what should they do with that? How do I turn that off? Thanks, JakubTimeline zoom
Hello, Is there a way to lower the zoom level in the Timeline view to less than 1 week? I have a couple projects with multiple dependent task per day but if I use the maximum zoom level in the Timeline view I don’t get a good overview of the different task in for example a 4 day period. I was expecting a Gantt chart like view, like what you have in Microsoft Project, in where you can zoom to a minute level granularity even.
[BUG] msdyn_project silently renamed from "Plan/Plans" to "Project/Projects" in new environments
We need clarification from Microsoft on whether this is a bug or an intentional breaking change. Overnight and without any announcement, the msdyn_project table now ships with display name Project / Projects in newly provisioned environments. Dev and UAT environments provisioned a few months ago have Plan / Plans out of the box. All environments are running the exact same PSCore version: 1.0.163.730. The entity is as expected, marked non-renameable — read-only in the maker portal — so there is no way to align environments manually. Solution import from an existing environment (where msdyn_project = "Plan") into a newly provisioned Production environment fails with: 0x8004023B: Entity 44286cce-2389-4532-ac04-7a18a2818e9a is not a renamable entity. Hence Entity Display Name cannot be modified The only workaround — and why it is not acceptable It is technically possible to manually edit customizations.xml inside the solution ZIP before importing, removing the <DisplayName> node for msdyn_project. The import will then succeed, but Production will permanently show "Project" while Dev and UAT show "Plan" — a broken inconsistency across environments. More importantly, this is not how ALM is supposed to work. Developers should never have to manually patch solution artifacts to work around a platform-level inconsistency introduced silently by Microsoft. This is incompatible with automated CI/CD pipelines and unsustainable for any team managing multiple environments. The question for Microsoft Is this a bug or a planned change? If it is a bug: when will it be fixed, and is there a supported workaround in the meantime? If it is a planned change: why was it not communicated, and what is the supported migration path for teams with existing environments and solutions? [UPDATE]: After 3 attempts of resetting and reprovisioning the Production environment, msdyn_project finally came up with Plan / Plans — same process, same PSCore version each time. The behavior is non-deterministic. The only workaround currently available is to keep resetting your environment until you get lucky, which is not an acceptable answer for any type of deployment.
Planner tab missing from Teams channel only shows as separate app
Our users can no longer open the Planner in the Teams channel; they can only access it via the app. This has been the case for a short while now. Does anyone know of a fix for this, or is this how it’s supposed to work? It cannot be selected via apps.Filtering on labels with AND logic please
Hi, Currently planner is filtering on labels using OR logic, this is a big problem for us. We want to label tasks with labels Software, Hardware, Product_A, Product_B etc. So if I filter and selects labels Software and Product_A, I want to see only the Software tasks for Product_A. But with the built in OR logic I also get the Hardware tasks which is annoying and complicates things. I'm not looking for a workarounds like exporting it to lists, using power automate or grouping on labels. Just a simple tickbox somewhere to use AND logic instead would be very much appreciated.
Top Level Task Marked as Complete
Recently, one of the users of a large Planner project marked the top level task complete and then it appears they marked it not complete. This appears to have reverted the entire status of every task in the 1000 item project to incomplete with a 0% status. I see this is the history log, their name is on every task's history now. Is there any way to revert this or lock out non-base level tasks from having a "complete" selector?
Planner release Custom Templates
From the ignite series pack, about Publishing a plan as a Custom Templates, the screen shot shows “Goals”, which I understand is only available in Premium Plans. Can you create Custom Templates from a Simple Plan? Or is it only available in Premium? Or is this screen shot showing post the feature where Simple and Premium Plans are combined into one? Is the combining of Simple and Premium Plans also being deployed as part of this major release?Planner Major release Custom Templates
microsoft are there any support materials or steps on how users will create Custom Templates? What are the sequence of steps users need to follow to be abel to "Publish as Template" This slide is from the ignite pack. I'm building end user support materials to educate users about the upcoming release. I can't see these changes ahead of my users.Planner major release @ mention feature
1.Can you misnomer someone who is not assigned to Task, but a member of the MS 365 Group? Or can you only misnomer someone assigned to the Task. E.g. Mary Jane is assigned the Task and wants to misnomer on of her direct reports (Todd Jones) that is helping gather info for the task. however Todd is not assigned to the Task. Can Mary Todd?Planner major release new Task feature and E5 licenses
microsoft Is the new Task Chat feature available for E5 licenses? It’s not listed in the notes in the message centre https://admin.cloud.microsoft/?https://admin.cloud.microsoft/? - “Microsoft Planner will add a new service plan enabling task-based chat for improved collaboration, rolling out worldwide in early January 2026. This feature will be ON by default for eligible licenses, including Planner Plan 1, Project Plan 3 and 5, and Dynamics 365 Project Operations. No immediate admin action needed.”Planner major release
microsoft what does this statement in the Message centre MC1193421 mean about Comments and Tasks on Planner. I thought the change was regarding Comments going away? “There are no changes to email notifications for the existing task comments experience, meaning that an email notification will be sent to all group members associated with the plan when a task comment is added.”Project Manager agent in Planner
microsoft In the latest Ignite series pack about the changes coming with Planner I notice in the screen shots about the Task Chat that the Comments heading is still showing. In the Message Centre for the Major release coming mid Jan-mid Feb 2026 that the Comments is going away. Can you clarify if the screen shot is showing a Task that previously had a Comment on it, and is now showing the Task Chat pane? I'm preparing communications and end user support materials for this change. The Comments feature has been heavily used by one of my Executive stakeholders and I'm keen to explain what he can expect with this release come mid Jan. This is the slide image from Ignite.
Planner personal plan bucket deletion inconsistent across tenants
Hello, we are seeing inconsistent behavior when deleting buckets in Microsoft Planner personal plans and would like to confirm whether this is an expected limitation or a known issue. In a Planner personal plan that is not connected to Microsoft Teams or a Microsoft 365 Group, tasks can be deleted successfully but buckets cannot be deleted and return a 403 Forbidden error even when the DELETE request includes a valid If-Match header with the latest odata etag value. The same scenario works correctly in other tenants where bucket deletion in personal plans succeeds using the same API calls and permissions. We have confirmed that this issue is not related to retention policies such as Microsoft Purview because bucket deletion works in group based plans when performed by a Global Administrator. It is also not related to GPO or Intune policies, and the request format and permissions have been validated by testing both as the plan creator and as a Global Administrator. Based on this behavior, bucket deletion in Planner personal plans appears to behave differently depending on the tenant even when the scenario and permissions are the same. Could you please confirm whether bucket deletion in Planner personal plans is officially supported, whether this tenant specific behavior is an expected design limitation, whether this is a known issue that can be escalated as a bug, and whether there are any recommended approaches for managing or cleaning up personal plans in enterprise environments. Thank you. (403 Forbidden)
Easily assign person(s) to subtasks
Hi all, I'm wondering if there's an option to easily assign person(s) to all subtasks of a summary task at one go. In our situation, we would like to assign all these subtasks of a summary task to the same person(s). However, at the moment is seems you have to assign the subtasks individually, which is quite labour intensive. Does anyone of you know a good workaround? Thanks in advance for your response, JasperMicrosoft where is the love for my Custom/non-default environment?
Like a lot of customers I have a custom environment for planner. I feel like a second class citizen when so many updates are for the default environment. Has anyone heard any news about advancements in a non-default environment. Specifically a way to get all tasks in one place for all resources?
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