The session will be end-to-end overview of Microsoft Planner functionality and features. Even if attendees didn't have any opportunity to work with Planner prior to this session, it is not an issue. After this session, attendees will know how to create Plans, work with Tasks and Buckets, and to manage collaborative projects for their teams with ease.

1. Planning with Planner
by Dragan Panjkov

2. GOLD SPONSORS
SILVER SPONSORS BRONZE SPONSORS

3. Dragan Panjkov
Microsoft MVP – Office Servers and Services
Consultant at K2 NE (www.k2.com)
Website and blog: www.dragan-panjkov.com
Twitter: @panjkov

4.  Work Management Today
 Introduction to Planner
 Demo
 Management and Extensibility

5. 30% of executives say the greatest
challenge to executing strategy is
the failure to coordinate across units1
62% of employees work
from multiple locations in
a month2
25% of the average worker’s time
goes into looking for information3
1. Harvard Business Review. “Why Strategy Execution
Unravels—and What to Do About It.”
2. Forrester Remote Work Survey
3. IDC. “The High Cost of Not Finding Information.”
Modern workplace challenges

6. One size doesn’t fit all
SMS

7. Addressing the unique needs and workstyle of each group
Groups
Move from task to task with cross
application group membership
Graph
Discover content and people with
cross application intelligence
Trust
Control on your terms with cross
application security & compliance
Email and
schedule
Call and meetCreate, share, find
content
Connect
across the org

8. Low Medium High
Ad Hoc Teams
PMO / Executives
and Project Teams
L E V E L O F C O M P L E X I T Y
TASK
MA NAG E ME NT
Individuals
PROJE C T
PORT F OL I O
MA NAG E ME NT

9. W O R K M A N A G E M E N T F O R T H E
M O D E R N W O R K P L A C E
Planner

12. Office 365 Core App.

13. https://tasks.office.com/
Demo

14. Sort tasks into buckets
Flag your tasks with labels
Set a preview picture for a task
Discuss a task with your team
Attach files, photos, or links
Add a checklist to a task
Add people to your plan
assign them to tasks
Add task start and due dates
Set and update task progress
Work on a file with Office Online

15. Microsoft Planner
Included in Office 365
Integrated with Groups
Easy to learn
Empowers teams
Secure

17. Azure
Active Directory
Apps

18.  App launcher visibility
 Control Planner tile visibility via service plan licensing
 O365 Admin UI and PowerShell to set
 Group creation permissions
 AD policy limits which users can create Office 365 groups
 Does not prevent users from using groups
 Tenant Admins can still create groups
 Naming conventions (In progress)
 Enforce naming conventions during group creation/edit
 Blocked word list, pre/post-fix strings, IT admin override
 Additional controls
$Policy = Get-MsolSettingTemplate –TemplateId 62375ab9-6b52-47ed-
826b-58e47e0e304b
$Setting = $Policy.CreateSettingsObject()
$Setting[“EnableGroupCreation”] = “false”
$Setting[“GroupCreationAllowedGroupId”] = “--guid object id for
your security group --“
New-MsolSettings –SettingsObject $Setting

19. https://graph.microsoft.com/
USERS FILES MAIL CALENDARGROUPS
Insights and relationships from Microsoft Graph
TASKS

20. Planner Tasks API Overview (Beta)
Access data across Office 365 and Microsoft at one single
endpoint
Read and write to the Tasks API at:
https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/groups/<id>/plans
https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/plans/<id>/tasks
https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/tasks
Retrieve $metadata document at:
https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata
Supports multiple OAuth 2.0 flows
Use common HTTP verbs like GET/POST/PATCH/DELETE
Plan
Owns
Contains

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SILVER SPONSORS BRONZE SPONSORS