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Planner - inviting users rather than groups
Hello,
We are looking to roll out MS planner to our company. When users have installed the add on in Teams and go to create a new plan, it wants us to add the plan to a MS365 group.
Is there a way on creation you can simply assign the Plan to an individual user?
If not, it looks like you have to assign the plan to a group but our users are getting the message: Your organisations global admin has turned off the ability to create new MS365 groups.
It looks like you can enable users to create MS365 groups which may be an option.
What are peoples thoughts on best practise? A few of the users have expressed interest though on inviting an INDIVIDUAL to a plan, rather than a group which it looks like it forces you to use.
- Hi
You cannot invite individuals. Planner is based on the Groups concept and all access is tied to being a member of the group.
There is no doubt this is a major deficit in Planner. It may have been fine back when it was just a simple kanban board, but now that they position it as a project management tool, it becomes unwieldy to create millions of groups just to have different sets of people on projects.
We're looking simply abandoning Planner and using Azure DevOps instead as that has a fine task management system and allows us to invite both individuals and groups.
