Collaborative meeting notes for Microsoft Teams
TL;DR:Microsoft are improving the Agenda, Notes and Follow-up tasks experience in Teams meetings. This new capability is powered by Loop and utilises Planner, To Do, Office.com and OneDrive for Business. Now...
A Planner component is coming to Microsoft Loop
TL;DR: Do you and your colleagues use the Microsoft Loop app to work on projects together? You’ll soon be able to bring Planner into Loop and use it alongside your related...
Lightweight Plans in Planner
Short version:Lightweight Plans in Planner are back after being on hold for a while. This will be enabled by Roster containers, which is a simple list of members stored in Planner that...
Planner cards to show on your SharePoint team site activity feed
Planner is a great, basic task management tool. But your tasks can be a bit ‘out of sight, out of mind’. This update will help surface your tasks…
TL;DR:This new feature will...
Tasks in Microsoft Loop Components to start syncing with Planner and To Do
TL;DR:Tasks created using Microsoft Loop components will soon start syncing with Microsoft tasks apps To Do, Planner, and the Tasks app in Teams. Now due mid-June mid-August 2023.
Details:The Task List Loop...
Add up to 25 task labels and colours in Planner and Tasks in Teams
Short version:
This update will please a lot of users; add up to 25 task labels and colours in Planner and Tasks in Teams, up from the current 5. The new colours...
Planner File Recommendations
You might recognise this one, earlier this year it was announced, but then put on hold in March while Microsoft made some changes.
Short version:This new Planner feature allows you to quickly...
Personal plans are coming to Microsoft Planner
TL;DR: Microsoft Planner will soon support Personal Plans which are shared only with the creator who will the sole member and owner of the plan. They can also be moved to...
S01E11 Introduction to Microsoft Planner
Welcome to Season 01, Episode 11 of Mark & Kirsty banging on about Microsoft 365!
In our eleventh episode Kirsty give us an introduction and tour of Planner:
00:01 Introductions01:39 Mark and Kirsty...
Rich text and images in Planner task notes
I first shared this update in late 2021, after going quiet for a while this great update is finally rolling out.
TL;DR:Microsoft are adding support for rich text (bold, italics, underline) and...
What’s new in Microsoft 365 and Copilot? April 2025
Welcome to our fourth roundup of 2025. We look at what was announced, released and delayed across Microsoft 365 and Copilot in April.
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