
All the members of the Group (or Team if one exists) would have access to the plan. The following is an example of an empty plan for an Office 365 Group called ‘SharePoint Admin Group’. This connection was later removed and so a new Group or Team no longer creates a new Plan. Initially, when a new Office 365 Group was created (including when a new Team was created in MS Teams), it created a Plan. It seemed that Microsoft’s vision was to move the creation of Tasks away from Outlook to Planner. It was described as ‘a simple and highly visual way to organize teamwork’ within a team – which meant initially an Office 365 Group. Planner is a task-based service originally linked directly with Office 365 Groups (announced in 2014 ‘ Delivering the first chapter of Office 365 Groups‘). The Microsoft 365 Planner app on 1 April 2021 Microsoft announced the Office 365 service called Planner in September 2015. Note that the Planned section does not include any simple, non-calendar-based, ‘To Do’ items. The ‘Assigned to you’ items are the second two under ‘Later’. The difference between the two can be seen below the first two are personal tasks from To Do, the second two are Group/Team-based tasks.

In mid 2015, Microsoft acquired 6Wunderkinder. Image source: Turn Emails into Tasks in Outlook- Instructions – TeachUcomp, Inc


Outlook tasks become (things) To Doįor a long time, it was possible to create and assign tasks in the calendar part of email. This post describes the difference between To Do and Tasks, and how and why Tasks has become a bit confusing. In the Microsoft 365 world, personal tasks are now things we need to assign in the To Do app. In Outlook, we could create a task, something we needed to do. We all have different ways to remind ourselves (and others) of things we (and they) need to do.
