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Jacques van der Hoven
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Oct 06, 2016
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Planner and Yammer integration for Task Comments (Conversations)

I'm not a great fan of using Outlook as a place to store running conversations/posts regarding tasks in Planner. It may work for some, but it just feels like we're using Outlook for something that it...
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jcgonzalezmartin
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Oct 06, 2016
Currently there is no connection between tasks generated by Planner and Outlook Tasks...Task generated by Planner ar Tasks Teams while Outlook Tasks are personal tasks...by the way, Microsoft is not currently providing any integration in this area and what you can expect is that third parties create (there are some already) Outlook Add-ins that allow you to work with Planner from Outlook. In regards of Planner and Yammer integration, this is something is not going to happen directly...what you will see is that when you create a Yammer Group, an Office 365 Group would be created behind the scenes so you will have the opportuity to have a plan for your Yammer Group. This is something Microsoft is currently working on and it will come in the coming months
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    Jacques van der Hoven
    Iron Contributor
    Oct 06, 2016

    So creating a Yammer group is going to create an O365 group in the background... how would you then be expected to associate a new Planner plan with this group? 

     

    I still think that Outlook is the wrong tool to manage Planner conversations and that Yammer is far better suited to the task and the benefits of direct integration would be more valuable. Maybe I just can't see how the work that Microsoft is currently doing is going to work in practice. 

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