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Microsoft Planner is a work management tool within Microsoft 365, and recent updates focus on interface redesigns, date flexibility, and AI features. The Planner UI has been rolling out in phases since February 2026, with further expansions planned for September 2026, including for GCC tenants. A notable change allows start and due dates to be set independently. AI-generated status reports in Planner Agent are entering preview in August 2026. Microsoft To Do remains separate, and Project for the web has been folded into Planner. Administrators should monitor roadmap items for rollout details and eligibility.
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    monday.com vs Microsoft Planner: Pricing, Scheduling and Licensing Trade-Offs

    TechRepublic published a head-to-head of monday.com and Microsoft Planner on November 2, 2026. Writer Marianne Sison scores monday.com 4.44 out of 5 and Planner 3.64. The scores come from a weighted rubric: pricing 20%, general features 25%, advanced features 20%, ease of use 10%, support 10%...
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    Microsoft Planner Custom Views: Saved Filters and Grouping Targeted for December 2026

    Microsoft Planner users on the web may soon be able to stop rebuilding the same filtered, sorted and grouped view every morning. A new Microsoft 365 roadmap entry, "Planner: Custom Views for plans" (roadmap ID 576275), describes a way to save a customized view of a plan and come back to it...
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    Microsoft Planner Agent V2 for Copilot Chat: Task Assignments, Larger Plans and Scheduled Catch-Ups

    Managing project boards across a dozen browser tabs, email threads, and chat channels is the digital equivalent of herding caffeinated cats. Microsoft has spent the past year attempting to centralize that chaos inside its flagship AI assistant, first previews of which arrived in the Frontier...
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    Microsoft Planner DoD Refresh Targets November 2026 With Teams and Web UI Alignment

    Microsoft is planning a refreshed Microsoft Planner experience for its DoD cloud, with a general-availability target of November 2026. Roadmap item 573274, titled “Planner: Refreshed experience and new capabilities,” describes a cleaner interface, improved navigation, responsive layouts, and...
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    Microsoft Project Online Retires September 30, 2026, Ending PWA Access

    ET CIO's "10 Best Project Management Tools for Enterprises in 2026," published September 23, 2026, lists Microsoft Project's cloud options as including Project Online. Microsoft retires Project Online on September 30, 2026, seven days after the guide went up. The rest of the list is a reasonable...
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    Microsoft Planner Deletes Inactive Meeting Plans After 180 Days

    Microsoft says it will begin automatically deleting inactive Planner plans created from Teams meeting notes and Loop task lists after 180 days without task activity, with general availability currently targeted for October 2026. The change, listed as Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 571392, is meant...
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    Microsoft Planner My Tasks Redesign: What the Roadmap Says

    Microsoft has put a redesigned My Tasks experience for Planner on its public Microsoft 365 Roadmap, but the entry is more of a direction-of-travel notice than a detailed product specification. The clearest confirmed points are that the work is associated with Roadmap ID 561204, is aimed at...
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    Microsoft Planner Task History: What’s Available Now

    Microsoft Planner’s Task History is useful precisely because it answers the everyday questions that turn routine project work into a dispute: who changed an assignment, when did a task move to completion, what happened to the schedule, and where did a comment originate? But an alleged future...
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    Planner Conditional Coloring: September GA License Scope Unclear

    Microsoft has added a September 2026 general-availability target for “Planner: Conditional Coloring,” roadmap item 569476, promising visual highlights for tasks matching selected criteria such as priority, status, and other task details. The useful part for IT teams is the prospective...
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    Planner Capacity View Lands After Project Online Retires

    Microsoft Planner is scheduled to gain a Capacity view in October 2026, adding a time-based workload screen intended to show who is assigned to work, where staff are overloaded, and where the team has room to take on more. The small but consequential Microsoft 365 Roadmap item, first highlighted...
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    Planner Private Tasks Move to Private Plans in September 2026

    Microsoft plans to change where Planner’s quick-capture private tasks live: rather than remaining unfiled items in the Private tasks view, new private tasks created in Planner and Planner-powered experiences will be stored in each user’s private plan. Microsoft’s Microsoft 365 Roadmap lists the...
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    Microsoft Planner Lets Due Dates Precede Start Dates

    Microsoft Planner has begun removing its long-standing date-order rule, allowing a task’s start date and due date to be edited independently even when the resulting schedule looks backward. For Microsoft 365 administrators and project leads, that is the concrete August 2026 change already moving...
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    Microsoft Planner UI September Rollout Extends February Launch

    Microsoft’s redesigned Planner interface is scheduled to begin another rollout phase in September 2026, according to a new Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry cited by Neowin. But organizations waiting for a completely new Planner experience should read that date carefully: Microsoft already began...
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    Microsoft Planner GCC Refresh Targets September 2026

    Microsoft has put a September 2026 general-availability target on a refreshed Microsoft Planner experience for GCC tenants, covering Planner in Teams and Planner for the web. Roadmap item 568791, published August 4 and still marked “in development,” promises cleaner navigation, responsive...
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    Planner in Outlook: July 2026 Rollout Still Unconfirmed

    Microsoft’s roadmap item 513278 still says “Planner: Available in Outlook” is in development even though its general-availability target was July 2026, leaving Outlook users without confirmation that the promised full Planner experience has actually begun rolling out. The item, updated August 3...
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    Microsoft To Do Is Not Retiring, but Planner and Copilot Take Priority

    Microsoft To Do is not being retired, and there is no Microsoft announcement, support notice, migration timetable, or service-health message indicating that the personal task app is headed for shutdown. Windows Central’s August 2 column raises a reasonable anxiety shared by longtime users of...
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    Planner Agent AI Status Reports Preview in August, GA in September

    Microsoft is preparing to make project reporting a far more conversational part of Planner: AI-generated Status Reports in Planner Agent is scheduled to enter preview in August and reach general availability in September, according to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry for feature ID 567886. The...
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    Outlook Meeting Insights Retires, Non-Copilot Users Lose Feature

    Microsoft 365’s July wave is less about flashy new apps than it is about reshaping the everyday mechanics of collaboration: how teams turn meetings into tasks, how event staff coordinate behind the scenes, how SharePoint users package repeatable AI work, and how Outlook decides which...
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    Microsoft Project Online Retires September 30, 2026: Migration Guide

    Microsoft Project Online will retire on September 30, 2026, leaving construction firms that use its Project Web App environment barely 10 weeks to choose a replacement, archive their data and test the workflows that keep bids, resource plans and master schedules moving. The deadline is real, but...
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    Microsoft Planner Agent Chat Reaches Basic Plans in August 2026

    Microsoft is preparing to add a built-in Planner Agent chat experience to basic Microsoft Planner plans, bringing natural-language queries, task discovery, and task-management actions to the standard Planner interface. Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry 567671, published July 14, lists the feature as...