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Kiril
Steel Contributor
Feb 12, 2020

Is Planner discontinued by Microsoft?

There is zero development in Planner's roadmap. Microsoft Project is promoted heavily, and is essentially a Planner with a Gantt chart. So, do I need to bother about Planner or should I switch to Pro...
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  • Brian-Smith's avatar
    Brian-Smith
    Feb 12, 2020

    Hi Kiril, Planner is certainly not discontinued and we continue to invest in both Planner and Project.  In Planner currently quite a lot of the effort is preparing for some features coming along soon - and hopefully you should be seeing more on the Roadmap - as well as new changes that probably don't justify a full Roadmap entry, like the recent addition of the Priority field and the very recently added Priority charts.

     As Project for the web gets new features it will certainly be a lot more than Planner with a Gantt chart - and it is already well beyond that in terms of the scheduling capabilities and depth of plan that it can support compared to Planner.

    Best regards,

    Brian

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Brian-Smith
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Hi Kiril, Planner is certainly not discontinued and we continue to invest in both Planner and Project.  In Planner currently quite a lot of the effort is preparing for some features coming along soon - and hopefully you should be seeing more on the Roadmap - as well as new changes that probably don't justify a full Roadmap entry, like the recent addition of the Priority field and the very recently added Priority charts.

 As Project for the web gets new features it will certainly be a lot more than Planner with a Gantt chart - and it is already well beyond that in terms of the scheduling capabilities and depth of plan that it can support compared to Planner.

Best regards,

Brian

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jaimegon
Copper Contributor
Jan 18, 2021

Brian-Smith in the past I used to see a Planner button on Project to link some tasks and assign them to team members that do not have access to Project, but I don't any more.  Was this taken away?  The only difference I can think of on my side is that before I used an account that had a Project subscription along with O365.  I have switched jobs since and my new employer has O365 subscription, but Project 2019 standalone, does this matter?  It still asks me to sign in to my account so I don't see why it couldn't link the 2 programs together.

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