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Brian-Smith
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A custom connector for Flow to get Office 365 Message Center posts
I though this might be useful for this community as Planner makes a great tool to manage change in Office 365 - (new Url) -https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Planner-Blog/A-Flow-Custom-Connector-to-read-O365-Communications-API/ba-p/362426This needs admin to set it up - and I've only scratched the surface with a simple flow.Project Online going into Read-Only state - why it may happen
I posted a blog on a few reasons why a PWA might go read-only - that main new one I was highlighting was for those customers who only have a Project Online Essentials license(s) which isn't enough to keep the site alive and it will get de-provisioned. We now male sure that the site will go read only - so that you know something is wrong and can get the correct licenses (add a Project Online Professional and/or Premium license) and then the site will come out of read-only. Full details at https://lwal.me/5g Best regards, BrianNew time phased data options coming now for Project Online
You can now, or at least by the end of the year, choose how you want your time phased data in Project Online. In the past it has always been daily, but you can choose weekly, monthly or by fiscal periods instead - or even choose not to have time phased data if you are not using those OData feeds for reporting. Choosing 'Never' or the granularity other than Daily will also likely reduce the publish time of your plans. Full story over at https://lwal.me/4j.Message Center to Planner - PowerShell walk-through
I just posted part 1 of my walk-through of the PowerShell code in the Azure Functions behind the Change management sample - explaining my code for the pulling of data from the Message Center and writing it out to the storage queue - and part 2 will cover picking it up and creating tasks!https://lwal.me/3zPlanner and Project Online Desktop Client
I know a few of you have already noticed this was turned on - and I just posted a short blog on the initial features. Links at the end of the blog for feedback as we'd love to know how you'd like to use this going forward and what features you are hoping for. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/brismith/2017/08/29/microsoft-planner-linking-plans-to-a-project-task/Planner Reporting - Part 3 of my series just published
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/brismith/2017/08/16/microsoft-planner-considerations-for-reporting-part-3/ I used Flow with Azure Functions to copy Planner data into Azure CosmosDB for reporting - just to give you some ideas on what's possible and the considerations for reporting against Planner data!How to clone a Plan using PowerShell and Graph
Just sharing a recent blog post where I walk through PowerShell example that uses Graph to read and write Plan details -https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/brismith/2017/02/17/microsoft-planner-how-to-clone-a-plan-with-graph/ Now athttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/planner-blog/microsoft-planner-how-to-clone-a-plan-with-graph/ba-p/362230
