Governance guide

How to govern Planner

A step-by-step guide to governing Planner with Rencore: detect with 27 policies, review with 11 reports, and remediate with 1 automations.

Definition

Governing Planner means keeping its access, configuration, and lifecycle under continuous control rather than reacting after something breaks. Rencore governs Planner with 27 pre-built policies, 11 reports, and 1 automations, so teams can detect risk, review posture, and remediate with an audit trail. The steps below turn that coverage into a repeatable routine.

Steps

  1. Inventory Planner

    Connect Planner and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.

  2. Detect with policies

    Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Planner to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.

  3. Review by owner and severity

    Use the Planner reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.

  4. Remediate and automate

    Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.

Recommended Planner policies

Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Planner catalog on the Planner connector page.

  • Planner plans with no activity in the last year

    Plans whose tasks and completions have all been idle for more than 365 days. Candidates for archival or deletion.

    Severity: Medium
  • Empty Planner plans

    Plans that contain no tasks and were created more than 30 days ago. Likely abandoned or accidentally created.

    Severity: Low
  • Planner plans whose creator has been deleted

    Plans where the original creator's account no longer exists in Entra ID. Ownership review needed.

    Severity: High
  • Planner plans with high overdue burden

    Plans with more than 10 overdue tasks. Indicates a backlog that is no longer being actively worked.

    Severity: Medium
  • Planner tasks more than 30 days overdue

    Open tasks whose due date is more than 30 days in the past.

    Severity: High
  • Urgent Planner tasks that are overdue

    Tasks with urgent priority whose due date has passed and are not yet completed.

    Severity: High
  • Open Planner tasks with no assignee

    Open tasks that are not assigned to any user. Tasks need an owner to be actionable.

    Severity: Low
  • Urgent Planner tasks with no assignee

    Tasks marked urgent that are not assigned to anyone.

    Severity: High
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