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Automating Microsoft Planner Plan Creation with PowerShell

Sean McAvinue — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Creating a Planner plan from a template allows a team working on a project to start working with the plan without creating a new plan from scratch. This is particularly useful when the same basic plan is used on multiple occasions. In this article, Sean Mcavinue shows you how to do this with some PowerShell Automation!

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Upgrading the Planner Report Script to Add An Incomplete Task Analysis

Tony Redmond — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000

In the first article about using the Planner Graph API to report details of plans in a Microsoft 365 tenant, we explained the basics of how to extract data about plans, tasks, and buckets to create a report using a PowerShell script. Now we take the lessons learned a step forward to illustrate the principle that with access to data, the possibility for creative use of that data is boundless and upgrade the script to include a listing of incomplete tasks and per-user analysis of incomplete tasks for each plan.

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Reporting Plans in a Microsoft 365 Tenant with the Planner Graph API

Tony Redmond — Tue, 30 May 2023 10:00:00 +0000

The arrival of application permissions for the Planner Graph API makes it much easier to write PowerShell scripts to automate administrative operations like reporting Planner data. This article describes a example script that uses the Planner APIs to gather and report information about the plans belonging to Microsoft 365 Groups.

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Exchange Online gets a useful new feature, Teams Rooms get a lick of paint, Meeting Recording controls improve plus more: Practical 365 Podcast S3 E20

Steve Goodman — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 21:11:56 +0000

Join Steve and Paul for season 3, episode 20 of the Practical 365 podcast - this week we're talking licensing - and it i good news; plus the MTR Windows devices are getting a paint job. But why and how does this affect you? Teams meeting recordings are going to get some useful controls, plus Planner gets some really useful new features that we've both been testing out.

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Create a PowerApp for mobile data capture with Teams Flow and Planner integration – Part 1

Steve Goodman — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 09:13:00 +0000

In Part One of this two-part article, Steve Goodman demonstrates how to create a mobile-friendly app using PowerApps, Teams Flow and Microsoft Planner.

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You Might Want to Turn Off Outlook Sync of My Tasks in Microsoft Planner

Paul Cunningham — Tue, 08 May 2018 14:43:05 +0000

Synchronizing Microsoft Planner tasks with Outlook is now available as iCalendar integration. But should you turn it off?

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Managing Adoption of Office 365 by Controlling Access to Apps

Paul Cunningham — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 08:34:31 +0000

If you're trying to run a gradual Office 365 adoption project, managing access to individual apps and services is critical. Unfortunately, it's also not very simple.

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Managing Projects with Office 365 Groups, Planner, and Teams

Paul Cunningham — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 21:58:58 +0000

How Office 365 Groups, Planner, and Teams provide project management capabilities for organizations.

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What’s New in Office 365 for May 2017

Paul Cunningham — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 02:53:12 +0000

Here's what's new and changed in Office 365 for May.

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What’s New in Office 365 for April 2017

Paul Cunningham — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 12:14:26 +0000

New and changed features in Office 365 during April 2017 for IT pros to stay up to date with.

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