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Planner - inviting users rather than groups
Hello, We are looking to roll out MS planner to our company. When users have installed the add on in Teams and go to create a new plan, it wants us to add the plan to a MS365 group. Is there ...
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You cannot invite individuals. Planner is based on the Groups concept and all access is tied to being a member of the group.
There is no doubt this is a major deficit in Planner. It may have been fine back when it was just a simple kanban board, but now that they position it as a project management tool, it becomes unwieldy to create millions of groups just to have different sets of people on projects.
We're looking simply abandoning Planner and using Azure DevOps instead as that has a fine task management system and allows us to invite both individuals and groups.
You cannot invite individuals. Planner is based on the Groups concept and all access is tied to being a member of the group.
There is no doubt this is a major deficit in Planner. It may have been fine back when it was just a simple kanban board, but now that they position it as a project management tool, it becomes unwieldy to create millions of groups just to have different sets of people on projects.
We're looking simply abandoning Planner and using Azure DevOps instead as that has a fine task management system and allows us to invite both individuals and groups.
