{"id":173471,"date":"2015-09-22T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T21:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/?p=173471"},"modified":"2024-08-30T13:53:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T20:53:30","slug":"introducing-office-365-planner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2015\/09\/22\/introducing-office-365-planner\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Office 365 Planner"},"content":{"rendered":"
Editor\u2019s note 1\/27\/2016:<\/strong> We are excited to introduce a brand new experience in Office 365\u2014Office 365 Planner<\/a>, which offers people a simple and highly visual way to organize teamwork. Planner makes it easy for your team to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share files, chat about what you\u2019re working on, and get updates on progress. Planner can be used to manage a marketing event, brainstorm new product ideas, track a school project, prepare for a customer visit, or just organize your team more effectively.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n Best-in-class productivity apps with intelligent\u00a0cloud services that transform the way you work.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n One of the most valuable aspects of Planner is that it helps teams organize their work visually. Each plan has its own Board, and within each Board, each work item or task is represented by a Card that can have due dates, attachments, categories and conversations associated with it. Team members receive an email notification whenever they are assigned a new Card or added to a conversation.<\/p>\n Every Card can have documents (or pictures) attached that automatically get rich image previews, so it is easy to understand what the Card is about at a glance. In addition, Cards can be organized on the Board into customizable columns called Buckets, which can be prioritized and tagged with colored labels.<\/p>\n Planner also gives you views to keep your work on track. The Hub view lets you track overall progress across all plans, while the \u201cMy tasks\u201d view lets you filter down to see just what you need to do across every plan. In addition, the \u201cCharts\u201d view includes interactive charts for visualizing people\u2019s progress against deadlines. Click a red segment on the histogram to quickly see which aspects of a plan are behind schedule and use the Board to rebalance work across the team. With Planner, everyone is always on the same page. A single glance of the Charts view is all it takes to know where things stand.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As a member of the Office 365 suite, Planner is integrated with other Office 365 services, such as Office 365 Groups, so all of the conversations in Planner are available in Outlook 2016, Outlook on the Web\u00a0and the Outlook Groups Mobile Apps.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Planner is also an ideal way to organize your Office files. Attach your Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents to a Card and start editing them right away. When a document is attached to a Card, it is stored in a SharePoint Online document library, allowing you to work on them offline.<\/p>\n Plans are also a great way to organize schoolwork. Every plan has a OneNote Notebook created for it, which means you can organize your coursework and share all your notes with classmates.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We have worked hard to ensure Planner lives up to the rigorous requirements of Microsoft\u2019s largest enterprise customers. Technical features such as multiple redundant backups, virtually instantaneous recovery and HIPAA, FISMA, ISO27001 and EU Model compliance ensure that your data is safe, secure and always available. To make certain everyone has fast access to Planner, the service is deployed in multiple datacenters around the globe, so everyone has their work close at hand. You can visit Office 365 Trust Center<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n Office 365 Planner will be available in preview to Office 365 First Release customers starting next quarter, so keep an eye on your Office 365 app switcher and give us your feedback after you make your first plan!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The FAQs in the post have been updated to clarify which Office 365 plans are eligible for Planner when generally available.<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
Microsoft 365<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
Teamwork organized<\/h3>\n
Works great with all of Office 365<\/h3>\n
Planner in education<\/h3>\n
Enterprise ready, globally available<\/h3>\n
Planner availability<\/h3>\n