Microsoft Planner
Vindaris connects to a Planner plan through Microsoft Graph and syncs its tasks two ways, so the buckets your team already works in roll up to the objective they serve. Nobody keeps a second task list.
Planner organizes work into buckets and tasks, and it does that well. What it has never done is relate a plan to the goal it is meant to move, or say something when that goal stops getting attention. Vindaris adds exactly that, and your team keeps working in Planner.
Each connection targets a single Planner plan, which keeps the mapping deliberate. Several plans can be connected for a goal that spans teams.
Completing a Planner task updates the goal, and completing the linked item in Vindaris marks the Planner task done through Microsoft Graph.
A task's bucket, due date, and details come across with it, so the structure the team built in Planner stays meaningful inside Vindaris.
Comments on Planner tasks are read as the conversation around the work, feeding the same context layer that Jira comments and Slack threads feed.
Vindaris writes a short line into the task naming the goal it serves, so people working in Planner can see why the task exists.
Planner is unavailable on personal Microsoft accounts. Vindaris blocks that at sign-in and explains it in plain language rather than surfacing a Graph error code.
The connection uses the Microsoft identity your organization already administers, so there is nothing separate for IT to provision.
Authorize with a work or school account. Tokens are encrypted and refreshed automatically against Microsoft Graph.
Choose the plan behind your team's Tasks tab. That plan's tasks become the work Vindaris tracks for the connected goals.
Confirm the suggested links between Planner tasks and goals so progress has something real underneath it.
Goal progress follows task completion from there, and the Work Graph raises the objectives whose plan activity has dropped below what the target needs.
Synced tasks keep their Planner source tag and sit beneath the goal they feed, so the share of the plan pointed at the quarter is visible at a glance.
The Work Graph compares task movement against what the goal needs and flags a plan that has gone quiet while the quarter can still be saved.
Planner is good at holding a team's work in buckets and keeping it tidy. What a plan cannot show is which objective it serves, or whether that objective has seen any real movement since the plan was created. Teams end up with several plans, each tidy on its own, and no way to tell from them whether the quarter is on track.
Vindaris adds that layer and leaves Planner alone. Each task maps to the goal it feeds, progress is derived from the tasks that actually moved, and pace is measured against the target date. When a plan's tasks stop moving while its objective's deadline approaches, Vindaris raises it as execution risk, early enough that the goal can still be met.
Both reach Planner through Microsoft Graph. This connection is about the Planner task sync itself, mapping a plan's tasks to goals and deriving progress from them. The Teams integration adds delivering goal updates and risk alerts into Teams channels on top of that sync.
No. Planner is not available on personal Microsoft accounts such as Outlook.com or Hotmail, so the connection requires a work or school account. Vindaris blocks personal accounts at sign-in and says so plainly.
Yes. Each connection targets one plan, and several plans can be connected when a goal spans teams, so work from more than one plan rolls up to the same objective.
The linked Planner task is marked complete through the Microsoft Graph API, using the reverse mapping on the connection, so the plan stays accurate whichever tool closed the task.
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