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 an M365 Group for collaboration with colleagues. Don’t get too excited though, there’s no actual way for most of us to create them. Due mid to late October 2023.
Details:
With this update there will be three types of plan:
- Regular group-based plans, which are shared through a Microsoft 365 group
- Lightweight plans, which are shared through a simple list of members stored in Planner rosters
- New Personal plans. Personal plans are shared only with the creator*, who is the sole member and owner of the plan. There will be a new type of container in the Planner service called user containers. Personal plans will be the plans attached to these Planner user containers
Key points from Microsoft:
- Personal plans can be created through Graph APIs. There is no current way to create them in the Planner UI (*if the creator is the sole member and owner of the plan, how will this work if someone else has to create them for end users?)
- Once created, Personal plans appear in Planner alongside all other plans in Planner and can be interacted with via the UI the same way
- All plan features are available for personal plans with the exception of comments on tasks, uploaded attachments, and links to OneNote/SP Site. To get access to these features, you must be in a plan linked to a Microsoft 365 Group
- A Personal plan can be linked at any time to a group container. At that point all members of the group can access the plan and all functionality of Microsoft 365 Group plans are available
- Once a plan has been linked to a Microsoft 365 group container, it cannot be moved back to a user container. It is possible to remove members from the group, but the plan is now tied to the lifecycle of the group
- There are no changes to Planner licensing or storage for Personal plans compared to existing Microsoft 365 group plans
Availability:
Due mid to late October 2023.
Source, related links, and references:
MC677519.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 171611.
Images: Microsoft.
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Page originally published:
16th September 2023 and kept up to date.
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