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The new Microsoft Planner: Meet the Makers and learn what’s coming next
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Wednesday, Apr 03, 2024, 10:00 AM PDTEvent details
Join us for two special events where our Planner product team shares what is coming to the new Microsoft Planner.
In our Meet the Makers virtual event on April 3rd, leaders from the Planner product team will talk about the latest on the future of task and work management for Microsoft 365. They will explain how the new Microsoft Planner brings together the simplicity of Microsoft To Do, the collaboration of Microsoft Planner, the power of Microsoft Project for the web - with the intelligence of Microsoft Copilot - into a simple, familiar experience.
Our experts will showcase some of the key new capabilities and improvements of the new experience, including demonstrations on how to leverage Copilot in Planner to create plans, tasks, and goals and get Copilot to answer questions on progress, priorities, workload and more.
On April 4, we will host a special Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA). During the AMA session members of the Planner product team will answer questions directly from the community. This is a great opportunity to get answers to any questions you may have from the recent Meet the Makers event.
Agenda + Experts (all times listed in the Pacific Time Zone (PT):
Wednesday, April 3
Meet the Makers
Kickoff [MC: @Karuana Gatimu]
10:05 – 10:40 am – Meet the Makers | Planner
Experts: @Howard Crow & @Roberto_Bojorquez
Leaders from the Planner product team will talk about the evolution and vision for Microsoft’s tasks and work management offerings. They will showcase some of their favorite new features that will help individuals, teams, and large organizations manage their tasks, plans and projects more effectively, and demonstrate how to leverage Copilot in Planner to create plans, tasks, and goals.
Thursday, April 4
Ask Microsoft Anything
10:00 am Kickoff
10:05 – 11:30 am -- AMA | Planner
Experts:
Session Description: Bring your questions for members of the Planner product team about the new Microsoft Planner.
Please share any questions that you would like our experts to address in the comments below.
EmilyPerina
Updated Dec 27, 2024
- Stephanie NicholsBrass Contributor
What's the timeline for accessing Planner Premium via Dataverse. PowerBI is a make-or-break point and I not even seeing it on the official roadmap for Planner and I'm concerned that the Project for the Web app and CDS/Dataverse functionality may be going away. Don't know what tool to use and don't want to waste time chasing the roadmap.
- EmilyPerina
Community Manager
Thank you for your interest in The new Microsoft Planner: Meet the Makers and learn what’s coming next event.
We will be locking this event to new comments, but please head over to the Microsoft Planner AMA to ask questions directly to the Planner experts and get them answered live during the AMA event on Thursday, April 4th at 10:00AM Pacific.
- Chko23Occasional ReaderWhat is the cost of the Project Plan 1 Tier?
- Bruce Kraft JrBrass ContributorWill project or planner premium be available on a mobile app??
- MaryHillSHUBrass ContributorA QUESTION ABOUT LICENSING - because it is important to consumers. There appears to be a number of different 'flavours' of Project each with there own licences. (Project on-premise standard, Project on-premise professional, Project Server, Project Online, Project for the Web ...) This is so confusing for the consumer. My org has Project on-premise standard, but this doesn't enable them to use Project for the Web/Planner Premium and this is a major drawback in trying to get adoption of the new Planner. We have been forced to buy Project on-premise standard because we buy M365 A3. Buying the Project for the Web/Planner Premium subscription would add to our costs and this can't be off-set by dropping Project on-premise standard because we are being forced to buy it. Is there a way out of this so our users can take full advantage of New Planner at no extra cost to our org?
- Tanya_KeyserBrass ContributorWill there be the ability to lock a Plan or modify Permissions to View Only or Contribute only? What about a recycle bin or version control for task items?
- -_RH_-Steel ContributorNo versioning (or at a minimum, Recycle Bin) = not usable for business. There is zero recoverability story here. This is very basic, screening-level, pass-fail stuff: the CIA triad (Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability) must be reviewed for every new application. No recoverability story means a hard fail on both Integrity and Availability.
- atrain204Steel ContributorThis please for ALL PLANNER users, not just Project/Premium subscribers.
- bdaniels-precastBrass ContributorAre there plans to implement read-only, edit, owner level permissions to plans / projects? Would improve the business use-case drastically.
- Bruce Kraft JrBrass ContributorWill there be a queue bell for notifications, similar to Clickup or Facebook? So when there are changes, or @ mentions, we can see exactly in what task we were referenced in a comment? We hate that indication only appears in email. Currently, in planner, there is a very-obtuse "you have changes" "you have mention" but with nothing to click on the planner experience on the web. Clickup provides a great template for how to communicate with staff. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE copy their tagging and notifications queue systems
- atrain204Steel ContributorAgreed. That notification "X changes have been made" is useless to the point of being a distraction. It need to tell us exactly what tasks have changed, who did it, and when.
- kefirosBrass Contributor
Will the Comments field, the same as in Lists and Planner be made available for Project tasks? Conversations in teams are useful but that is a different use case. Timestamped comments would unlock a lot of additional useful collaboration, status updates, etc. Many project managers would love to have a choice of using Conversations, Comments or both in Project.
- kefirosBrass Contributor
Hi Roberto_Bojorquez , I have not seen that question answered in the AMA, are you able to comment?
- kefirosBrass Contributor
Will @mentions be finally enabled in Comments field in the new Planner? For years now it has been the most requested feature in uservoice/feedbackportal...It is really hard to use Planner for collaboration without it...
- atrain204Steel ContributorYes, this is a major gap that the team needs to address ASAP.
- Bruce Kraft JrBrass ContributorFACTS. Please just copy Clickup's tagging, communication & notification queue systems please...
- LisaJo48Iron ContributorWill this be recorded? April is Spring Break month so I, along with many others, may not be able to attend the actual meeting. Thanks!
- EmilyPerina
Community Manager
Hi LisaJo48 , yes this event will be recorded and available on-demand as soon as our livestream is over so you can watch when it is convenient for you. If you have any questions for the presenters, you can leave them here in a new comment thread.
- Darren_LaffertyBrass ContributorGood question. I have meetings at the same time so I will miss some of this.
- kefirosBrass ContributorI also hope it will be recorded, the events are at 3.30am for me...
- kchandler33Copper ContributorWhen will Teams Conversations on tasks roll through to the preview? Having separate conversations on tasks that have @ functionality and notifications through Teams (instead of email) seems like a must for this update.
- Laura_Becker
Microsoft
Hi Thomas!
Thanks so much for your interest. Let me check with EmilyPerina to make sure the calendar settings are working properly.
See you there! Best, Laura