'With the new Tasks experience in Teams, we are delivering several capabilities that will support new levels of team collaboration. In addition, according to the M365 Roadmap explanation: The coming Tasks in Teams will include a variety of views: List, Boards, Charts, and Schedules. Officials said a new Tasks app and Tasks tab would be coming to Teams and that Outlook endpoints would be coming, as well in 2020. Microsoft announced plans to consolidate To Do and Planner last Fall but didn't provide specifics around timing for the new Tasks in Teams experience at that time. The Microsoft 365 roadmap, which now includes an item called 'Tasks in Teams,' describes the coming Tasks app as providing users with a consolidation of tasks across Microsoft To Do, Teams channels, Planner, and Outlook Tasks.

There is more going on than just a rebranding in the case of Planner in Teams, however.

And I believe outside of Teams, the Planner app will remain 'Planner,' but I am asking Microsoft just to be sure. The Yammer Teams app is being rechristened as 'Communities.' But outside of Teams, the Yammer app will continue to be known as Yammer. The move seems similar to what Microsoft announced recently around Yammer in Teams. The change will begin in May or June and is expected to be completed by mid-July, officials said.

In yet another potentially confusing rebrand, Microsoft is renaming its Planner app for Teams as 'Tasks.' The Teams Tasks app will allow users to see their individual tasks and team tasks in a single app, according to a notification Microsoft is sending out to Office 365 commercial users. Get Teams for free and learn how to get started here. With COVID-19 continuing to impact people and countries around the world, teams and schools everywhere are moving to remote work and distance learning. Microsoft Teams: Work remotely without feeling remote

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