Microsoft 365 - Planner

Slow Start for the New Planner

Tony Redmond — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In April, Microsoft launched the new Planner, complete with a new Planner app for Teams. The makeover is nice and the ability to create personal plans is appreciated. However, Planner Premium licenses are needed to access any of the Project on the web features that the new Planner is absorbing.

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Practical Graph: Creating and Updating Planner Tasks

Tony Redmond — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In the past, we've described how to use PowerShell to report tasks in Planner plans. This article completes the circle by discussing how to create Planner tasks. The scenario used is synchronizing Microsoft 365 message center notifications to create tasks in a target plan. There are some interesting issues to discuss, like how to assign a label to a task.

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Automating Microsoft Planner Plan Creation with PowerShell

Sean McAvinue — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Creating a Planner plan from a template allows a team working on a project to start working with the plan without creating a new plan from scratch. This is particularly useful when the same basic plan is used on multiple occasions. In this article, Sean Mcavinue shows you how to do this with some PowerShell Automation!

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Practical Graph: Incomplete Task Analysis for Planner Tasks

Tony Redmond — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000

In the first article about using the Planner Graph API to report details of plans in a Microsoft 365 tenant, we explained the basics of how to extract data about plans, tasks, and buckets to create a report using a PowerShell script. Now we take the lessons learned a step forward to illustrate the principle that with access to data, the possibility for creative use of that data is boundless and upgrade the script to include a listing of incomplete tasks and per-user analysis of incomplete tasks for each plan.

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Ten Years On, Office 365 Backup is More Challenging Than Ever Before

Tony Redmond — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 18:26:00 +0000

Ten years after its launch, backing up Office 365 data is more difficult than ever before. Apps are more complex and interconnected and APIs aren't available. What should an Office 365 administrator do to protect tenant data. Here's some thoughts on the challenges and why Microsoft needs to do more to help in this space.

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Come and write for Practical 365

Steve Goodman — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 23:55:00 +0000

We’re looking for experienced IT professionals to join us in our Practical 365 community. Write about your practical experience with all things Microsoft.

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You Might Want to Turn Off Outlook Sync of My Tasks in Microsoft Planner

Paul Cunningham — Tue, 08 May 2018 14:43:05 +0000

Synchronizing Microsoft Planner tasks with Outlook is now available as iCalendar integration. But should you turn it off?

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What’s Good About Microsoft Planner So Far (and What’s Still Missing)

Paul Cunningham — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 06:47:58 +0000

After several months of using Microsoft Planner in Office 365 to manage tasks and collaborate on projects, here's what's good about Planner so far (and what's missing as well).

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