The plan is gone.And with itwho was doing what.
A plan deleted on its own cannot be pulled back out of any recycle bin at Microsoft. Conbool captures plans including buckets, tasks, assignments and checklists on a schedule, and brings back individual tasks too.
Why Planner is a question of its own
Four points that count when something is lost.
No recycle bin for a single plan
Delete a plan and there is nowhere to pull it back from. Only when the whole group is deleted does the plan hang on the group's retention and return with it.
A task goes faster than a plan
The more common case is not the lost plan but the accidentally deleted task, with its description, its checklist and the name of the person responsible.
The substance sits in the details
Title and due date are the least of it. Description, checklist, attachment references, labels and assignments carry the actual work, and those are exactly what a manual export leaves behind.
Tidying up looks like normal operation
Someone closing a plan and clearing it away does nothing unusual as far as the platform is concerned. There is no warning and no confirmation prompt.
Identifiers, authors and ordering are assigned anew by Microsoft on creation. The restore report says so.
One task back, not the whole plan.
A backed up state shows the buckets of a plan with their tasks. You tick what is missing, and exactly that comes back, along with its description, checklist and assignment.
Buckets are recreated under their names
Assignments, checklists and labels come along
Target group is yours to pick, optionally a new title
Whatever Microsoft assigns anew is in the report
How the backup runs
On the same schedule as every other source, with no separate tool.
1. Find the plans
Conbool walks the groups of your tenant and takes every plan it finds as a protection unit of its own. New plans join with the next inventory run.
2. Read it in full
Every run reads the plan, the plan details, the buckets, the tasks and the task details. Label names sit on the plan and are read along with it, otherwise a coloured label would be left as a bare number.
3. Bring back what is missing
A single task or the whole plan, into the original group or into another one. Optionally as a new plan under a title you choose.
What makes the Planner backup
Six points that make the difference.
Buckets and tasks in their structure
A plan is not captured as a flat task list but with its buckets. On restore they are created again, and each task lands in the bucket it was in.
Assignments, checklists, labels
Who was responsible, what is still open and which labels were set belong to the task and are captured with it, along with the description and attachment references.
Individual tasks instead of whole plans
You pick exactly the tasks that are missing out of a backed up state. A full copy of the plan sitting next to the original is rarely what anyone needs.
Target group is yours to choose
A restored plan belongs to a Microsoft 365 group. That can be the original one or another, for instance when the team has since been cut differently.
The losses are part of the result
Identifiers, authors, timestamps, comments and the ordering are assigned anew by Microsoft on creation. That is in the restore report, not in a footnote.
On the same schedule
Planner runs with every other source in one control surface. An interval per source can be set, and failures and runs appear in the same overview.
With and without a backup of your own
What is possible either way.
With Conbool | Microsoft 365 only | |
|---|---|---|
| Restore a plan deleted on its own | yes | no |
| Restore a single deleted task | yes | no |
| Keep checklists and assignments | yes | only while the task exists |
| Look at a state from several weeks ago | yes | no |
| Write back into a different group | yes | no |
Statements about Microsoft 365 follow its publicly documented recovery features. Plans deleted along with their group return with the group while its retention period lasts.
Frequently asked questions
Does Microsoft not bring a deleted plan back by itself?
Can a single task be restored?
Does the plan land where it was?
What does not come along on a restore?
Does Conbool need extra permissions for this?
Does a plan count against our seat allowance?
Can a plan be handed out as a file?
Are all plans really found?
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