Planner integration with Message center available for GCC customers

[Brian-Smith]

If you’re an IT admin, the Microsoft 365 Message center is your go-to place for news about upcoming feature releases, updates, and maintenance. But Message center posts can be hard to manage and easy to lose track of—and that’s where Microsoft Planner comes in. In September, we announced Planner integration with the Message center, which lets you sync updates from the Message center to a Planner plan. This means you can automatically create Planner tasks from Message center posts to help you manage upcoming changes and any related to-dos. 

We’re pleased to announce that this integration is also available for all Microsoft 365 and Office 365 GCC customers. Availability for GCC High and DoD customers is tentatively scheduled for the early part of 2021. 

You can learn more about Planner integration with Message center on our dedicated support page. 

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[Martin Ballard]

As a minor follow-up, we discovered that while manual sync in GCC was working perfectly, that scheduled sync was not.  A correction is in process and we hope to see the scheduled sync working for all GCC tenants before the end of December.  

[Martin Ballard]

Following up, the fix was successfully deployed and verified.  This feature works the same in GCC as it does in Commercial now.

[Brian-Smith]

Thanks for the follow up @Martin Ballard - and for pushing this through!