Combine Microsoft 365 Project and Planner for serious team productivity

In projects I’m part of there’s often this gap between the project manager and the project architect (or technical project lead if you will) in terms of planning and milestones that have to be reached. Where the project manager wants to retain a more “zoomed out” view of the situation, the project architect wants to keep track of the consultants work that has been completed, ideally enabling the consultant to update the status of the tasks at hand at a central place.

The tool of choice of the project manager in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem? Microsoft Project Online.

The tool of choice of the project architect in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem? Microsoft Planner.

Do the two platforms connect with each other at this time in a technical sense of the word connect? Unfortunately, no. Does this keep us from using the two platforms to achieve some serious team productivity? Of course not! Following a few simple rules and a little bit administrative effort, the two platforms work perfectly together providing all project members with the information they seek.

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Introduction to the Microsoft Graph (MgGraph) Powershell Module & API

As you might know, Microsoft will stop supporting the MSOnline and AzureAD Powershell Modules for managing Entra Identity and other Microsoft 365 related services in the near future. Where the current end of life date was set to previous month, this has now been postponed to March 30, 2024.

As a successor to the above mentioned modules, the new Microsoft Graph (MgGraph) API and accompanying powershell commandlets are available for download here. I would advise you to install both the v1.0 and the beta version of the SDK. Why will be made clear in this article.

In the remainder of this article, I will explain how to move from using the legacy modules to the Microsoft Graph API and accompanying Powershell Module. For demonstration purposes, we are going to turn off directory synchronization by using the MgGraph Powershell Module and API.

Setting up your environment

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