Preparing for Planner’s New Roster Containers

[Tony Redmond]

Microsoft will soon introduce roster containers to Planner. These are plans without Microsoft 365 Groups that apparently are tied to some mysterious new functionality. Because we have no idea what this functionality will be, we decided to disable it using Planner’s odd approach to PowerShell. Suffice to say that it’s not straightforward. Now if only someone had a plan…

https://office365itpros.com/2021/03/19/planner-roster-containers/

[#2]

Good afternoon, Tony! Is there a release date on this yet? I saw April, but I don't see it in the roadmap anywhere. I have a client wants to use "personal" plans. Thanks so much!

[#3]

Nope. I believe Microsoft took back the plan to rework some aspects. They haven't issued an updated schedule.

[#4]

Boo...That was all the buzz at Ignite/Spring Edition. Thanks for the quick response and hope to see you again soon at an in-person event!

[#5]

looks like they are relaunching these again in Sep- October according to message centre pos Message ID: MC279089

[#6]

I found this https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/planner/access-planner-roster

[#7]

Anyone know what the status is on this? I've just started reading up on this and was this, all the documentation on the subject still seems incomplete and I'm a bit surprised to see over a year later there's still no user UI. I've confirmed allow roster creation is enabled and followed the directions here to create a roster for myself but I still don't see anything in planner. Everything I've read indicates it should be visible with the rest of my plans. I'm trying to figure out if I'm just missing something or if this feature was never actually released.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/planner-post-rosters?view=graph-rest-beta&tabs=http

[#8]

@Justin Siegard 

I've managed to create a Roster and create a plan in the Roster.

You need to follow the documentation to create a Roster, then you can create a Plan by calling a POST to beta/planner/plans with a request body like this:

{

"container": {

"@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.plannerPlanContainer",

"containerId": "{RosterID}",

"type": "roster"

},

"title": "My Roster"

}

Where {RosterID} is the id returned when you created the plan.

If you then sign into Planner for the user who is a member of the Roster, you should see your new Roster Plan in there - you can add members via the ui, add tasks etc. It doesn't seem to appear in Tasks by Planner in Teams though, only Planner itself.