Why Planner?
Microsoft Planner
Turn plans into progress with Microsoft Planner. From personal tasks to team plans and complex projects, organize work your way. Connected with Microsoft 365 and Work IQ, and integrated with Copilot and Cowork, Planner helps turn ideas into action. Start simple, scale as you grow, and let Planner Agent help you plan, manage, and move work forward.
Simple
See everything on your plate in one place, from private tasks to team plans and projects. A refreshed design makes it easy to find and navigate your work.
Flexible
Work where and how your team works, across Teams, Outlook, and the web. Organize work your way with flexible views and templates, and keep conversations connected to the work with task chat.
Scalable
Start simple and evolve your plans with goals, timelines, task hierarchy, dependencies, portfolios, and more. Connect Planner to your business processes through APIs, Power Automate, and the Microsoft Planner MCP Server.
Intelligent
Keep work moving with Copilot and the Planner Agent. Identify and address risks, communicate progress, and drive work forward, while turning meeting discussions into actionable tasks.
AI-POWERED WORK MANAGEMENT
Bring intelligence into your plans
Planner Agent and Copilot
Create, manage, and move plans forward with Planner Agent in Microsoft Copilot. Fully integrated with Work IQ, it helps you turn ideas into organized work right from the Copilot chat experience.
Planner in Copilot Chat
Access and manage your Planner plans and tasks directly in Copilot Chat, with the context of your work across Microsoft 365
Planner in Copilot Cowork
Bring planning and work management into Copilot Cowork to help move complex, multi-step work from intent to execution.
Microsoft Planner MCP Server
Bring Planner capabilities into AI-powered solutions and workflows. Use the Planner MCP Server, powered by Work IQ, to integrate with your business processes via APIs and Power Platform connectors.
Community
Join the Planner Community
Looking for new ways to get more value from Planner? The Planner Customer Connection Community is a Viva Engage community intentionally designed to connect Planner users with industry peers and the people who build the product. Share best practices, ask questions, discuss what works well, and learn about new Planner capabilities and resources directly from Microsoft and the people who use Planner for work management.
This community is designed to foster connection between product owners and admins, project managers, and everyday Planner users. Plus, stay in the loop on upcoming Planner Empowerment Sessions available to community members—there’s a new one every month!
Opt in to join the conversation, discover how others are using Planner, and help shape the future of work management through shared experiences and feedback.
Business user
Support for our business users
Explore support resources, including documentation, product demos and day in the life guides, designed to help you quickly harness the full potential of Planner.
Licenses
Getting started with your new licenses
Seamless set up. Quickly find and respond to license requests. Assign licenses and empower users.
How to find and respond to license requests
Equip users with the essential tools for modern work management.
How to assign licenses
Distribute licenses and empower team members with enhanced features.
Which license is right for my users?
Explore options and compare plans.
Our commitments
What happens when I start a trial or buy a premium license?
Helping to ensure that your organization’s data is secure, the solutions you use are designed responsibly, and you have full control is paramount. When you start a trial or buy a license for Planner, you gain access to a powerful work management solution that respects these principles.
Security and exposure management
Microsoft is committed to delivering the highest level of trust, transparency, and compliance. Planner is designed from the ground up to address the most rigorous security and privacy demands. Customer data remains private and in users’ hands, with Microsoft Purview providing comprehensive data governance and compliance capabilities.
Learn moreResponsible AI
Microsoft is committed to the advancement of AI driven by ethical principles and guided by governance, policy, and research. We’re committed to making sure AI systems are developed responsibly and in ways that warrant people’s trust.
Learn moreYou're in control
Admins are able to manage trials of Planner within their organization and have the ability to turn them on or off. For paid subscriptions, admins manage license assignments and incoming license requests, monitor product usage, and more.
Learn moreStart your team’s trial today
Discover firsthand how Planner can streamline workflows and enhance productivity.
Start your trial with no commitments and no automatic purchases and explore the full capabilities of Planner at no cost for 30 days.
