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Planner and SharePoint task list
I’m exploring the use of SharePoint Task Lists alongside Planner. Is there a way to interlink these today, or is Planner expected to support SharePoint task lists more natively in the future?
Also, with Planner Agent in the picture, how can these be more aligned and interlinked or even more centralized with SP.
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hi Ibakordor At the moment, Planner and SharePoint Task Lists are still somewhat separate experiences. You can embed Planner into SharePoint pages pretty easily, but there isn’t a true native sync between classic SharePoint task lists and Planner tasks yet.
From what Microsoft seems to be doing, Planner is gradually becoming the more central task management experience, while SharePoint acts more as the collaboration/content layer behind it.
For now, if you want tighter integration, most people use:
- Power Automate
- Microsoft Lists
- Graph API integrations
- Or reporting through Power BI
With Planner Agent/Copilot coming into the picture, I expect things to become more connected over time, especially around tasks, files, notes, and collaboration data inside M365. But today, there’s still some gap between SharePoint task lists and Planner in terms of full native interoperability.
For new implementations, many teams are moving toward:
Planner + SharePoint + Loop + Power Automate
rather than relying heavily on classic SharePoint Task Lists.
