I would like to know the same: if there is any way to import a plan into new planner (premium)

Hope you enjoy the new product!

Thanks for your comment. What are your biggest frustrations?

​@@bearded365guy Wel... I'm by no means a professional so you may know how I should approach these, but these are the things that have been bothering me: - Premium features are not priced correctly; you cannot require a plan for 1/3 of the features that every basic project management tool has (especially not if, like me, you have already purchased the Copilot for a 365-yearly license). - Commenting/threading within a task (they tried to solve this by connecting a channel, but this results in poor user experience). - Notifications are still a mess, and you can't tag someone individually, absurd. - Time tracking-completed + remaining = total. How old-school is that? (Smaller) Businesses need a timer/ticker that you can turn on and off for accurate reporting/insights. - Sharing or reporting plans/status to externals are missing (even internally it lacks). - Adding attachments without drag and drop functionality? Really Microsoft? Often takes me 10 clicks to get it in. - Unable to change the location for attached files; at least let me designate a dedicated folder. - Checklist with a maximum of 20 lines and a character limit that's too short. - Activity feed: the premium version now includes it on task level, but the basic version should have this feature as well. - A convenient way of creating templates that can be reused when making a new plan (when having 100's you need a way to organize this as in a database style). - Permissions issues: I often need a private channel with a planner, which is not possible. I also do not always want every group member to have access to the plan (there are workarounds, but that in itself is already a red flag). I guess for business doing a lot of one-time projects this is fine. But small business owners that do care about having the best possible setup and internal processes, that also do repeatable work like marketing retainers and such, will end up disappointed. Especially after doing some research for other PM tools.

I am not 100% sure, but I think you should have it included.

People with free accounts can still see and take part in Premium projects. But they won’t get access to the Premium features of that project.

So they won‘t see custom fields?

Yes you can.

It still doesn't seem possible to sort by due date within a bucket unless I'm missing something.

@@gilbyguerrero8786 It’s just in Teams at the moment..

I don’t *think* so.

Yes, you should be able to do that….

@@bearded365guy any idea how?

Did you switch away from Asana to MS planner? And if so what was your experience?

@@BozotheClown-uy7hd We haven't yet, but maybe in the coming months.

Good point. I really like using Planner, but no backup / restore function is really bad. Even completely restoring a M365 Group will not recover a deleted plan. That being said, there are loads of non-microsoft cloud services that are difficult or impossible to back-up.

yes, the issue of somebody coming in and deleting a task or even a project seems a huge issue. That something like that is unrecoverable is really an amateur mistake in my mind. I can't really believe that Microsoft couldn't figure out a way to recover lost tasks. and yes, there should be a read only version of any of this

Yes! You can do that

@@bearded365guy Only the simple planner has the “repeat” option. In premium planners (which use the project style) the "repeat" option is missing. Have you tested this feature in your environment? (I'm in Brazil, maybe it's not yet available globally). Can you confirm please ?

Yes! But they won’t be able to see the premium features

I actually agree with you! The cost of the software is too high!

Ah ok. The new planner is in the process of getting rolled out. If you haven’t got it yet, you need to enable ‘public preview’ in the Microsoft Teams admin centre. Then wait a few days….