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When will Planner be available for Government O365 subscriptions?
We have government G3 O365 subscriptions. When will Planner be available to us?
Thanks
- It's been a long time coming, but Planner is now officially launched in GCC and GCCHigh: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Planner-Blog/Microsoft-Planner-is-now-available-in-Microsoft-s-cloud/ba-p/309947
Add me to the list of those who need this feature NOW. My customers are already shopping/procuring 3rd party products to fill this void. It's frustrating that we are paying for all of these services that we are not receiving. I was holding them off until the end of 2017, but if I tell them another 6 months, they won't believe it -- and honestly, neither do I.
The Office 365 roadmap was updated to specify Q2 of CY2018. For whatever that is worth.. it's more specific than it was previously :) So many we can hope by the end of June?
Roadmap now says Q3 2018. Updated on March 19th, 2018.
https://products.office.com/en-us/business/office-365-roadmap?filters=#abc
"Planner will be available in Office 365 US Government Community (GCC) when it meets the compliance commitments of the offering."
It's been pushed back for 2 years now, so who knows when it'll actually happen. It is likely not Microsoft's fault.
ErayCMicrosoft
It's been a long time coming, but Planner is now officially launched in GCC and GCCHigh: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Planner-Blog/Microsoft-Planner-is-now-available-in-Microsoft-s-cloud/ba-p/309947I have been hunting for this information for quite some time with no solid answer. All I do know is that each service team defines their own roadmaps on if / when to build out and support the required infrastructure within the GCC. Last I heard there was no ETA for Planner - which is quite disappointing :(
- I know my answer is not going to help, but Planner rollout is supposed to be happening till the end of the year. By the way, have you tried to type directly tasks.office.com in the Url
Just tried the url you suggested. Got a page back that said "they weren't ready for us yet".......
But thanks!
Juan,
I am actually more than happy with that answer. All of my inquiries have fallen into black holes and being able to tell my end users "within the next three months" would be great. Do you mind me asking where you got that information from?
Or, by "planner rollout", do you mean world-wide rollout of the Planner service to commercial tenants (which the GCC is not a part of)?
I heard this information directly from someone from Microsoft...by the way, I fear I cannot answer your question in regards what means WW rollout :-(.... pinging cfiessinger so he can help us pinging someone from the Planner Team that could provide a more precise answer
We are seriously considering moving back to Google Docs. Every time we attempt to train our employees on features they can use, just about every training video inserts something that they can't do. I watched a OneDrive video that showed how you can add workflow. Those approvals don't work in the Government cloud. People will log into office.com and features will show up temporarily and they will start to use them and wonder why something doesn't work. Usually, it is because it can't work in the government cloud. We are paying for all these programs and features, we just can't use any of them. This has changed our policy for choosing products. If a feature doesn't work at the time of purchase we now assume it never will be. If we would have known that over a year after moving to Office 365 that we would still be waiting on features that we were promised we would never have made the move.
- Should’ve went commercial
The Roadmap claims it is now launched as of last month. Needless to say my tenant doesn't have it at all.
No joy here either. Another date comes and goes.
This has become a real issue for us. We have delayed pursuing and purchasing another project management / task management solution because why spend the money if this will get us most of what we need for free (not free but you know what I mean). However, we are left with nothing after months of missed launch windows.
If I were you all I would reach out to your technical account manager. Every now and then there are some scripts that need to be run to get this all showing up. What I can tell you is that in our instance of the GCC we now have Planner enabled.
It's not in the app launcher, doesn't have the SPO and Teams integration yet, but is accessible and usable via tasks.office.com. The app launcher is now present within the service as well.
-Steve
