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What is Planner, and who gets it?

What is Planner, and who gets it?

So what is Planner exactly and how do you get it? Well, in a nutshell, Planner is a task management tool for teams working together on plans or projects. It's a tool for businesses, schools and organizations that will help with structuring teamwork and collaboration on projects by automating many of the tasks related to groups of people working together on a project. With Planner, team members can create plans with assigned tasks and then add automation, such as setting due dates that send out reminders and notifications, or updating the status of the project and individual tasks, easily sharing and collaborating on files and cool visuals on a dashboard that makes it easy to monitor progress and even make adjustments right from the graphics without having to leave the dashboard. So who exactly gets this app? Well, for now, not every Microsoft 365 subscriber will find a Planner app Launcher tile when they log in. You'll see the app Launcher for Planner if you or your organization…

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