What’s new in Microsoft Planner – September 2025

This month, we introduced the Project Manager Agent in Microsoft Teams meetings and channels and enhanced Planner’s security. These features make collaborating with your team more effective while keeping your work secure. 

Project Manager Agent skills now available in Teams meetings and channels 

Project Manager Agent skills are now available in Microsoft Teams meetings and channels, meaning you can turn meeting conversations into actionable tasks, assign and update items right in the chat, and even generate polished documents with a simple prompt. Meeting tasks sync automatically to Planner for seamless follow-up, and you can filter or retrieve tasks based on due date, assignee, or topic, all without leaving Teams. In channels, each team gets a dedicated agent to create tasks, set due dates, answer plan-related questions, and keep projects moving. 

To get started, @mention the Facilitator during meetings or your channel agent to create or manage tasks as you go. Learn more about powering up project management in Teams with the Project Manager Agent. 

Enhancing task assignment security in Planner 

Planner now supports Information Barrier (IB) policies. If your compliance admin has configured IB policies to restrict communication and collaboration between user segments, these restrictions (already supported in Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive) will now extend to Planner as well. Users from one segment will not be able to share plans with users in another. 

This security improvement came as a result of customer feedback. Thank you for your continued input in making Planner better! 

Share your feedback  

Tell us what you think about the new Planner using the Feedback button in the top right corner of the app. You can also leave thumbs up/thumbs down feedback any time you try a Project Manager Agent-enabled capability.  

We encourage you to share any feature requests by adding your ideas to the Planner Feedback Portal. Your feedback helps inform our feature updates, and we look forward to hearing from you as you try Planner’s new and existing capabilities.  

Resources  

• Check out the Planner adoption page. 

• Sign up to receive future communication about Planner.  

• Check out the Microsoft 365 roadmap for feature descriptions and estimated release dates for Planner. 

• Watch Planner demos for inspiration on how to get the most out of Planner in Teams. 

• Visit the Planner help page to learn more about the new Planner.