Microsoft project management software used to plan, manage, and communicate a project schedule and other information among workgroup members, project managers, and other stakeholders.
The premium plan setup can take several minutes, but if it is stuck for 30+ minutes it is likely that provisioning has failed in the background.
Because the context does not provide a direct fix for a stuck “Setting up Premium…” state, the only actionable step supported here is to avoid relying on that blocked premium plan and instead work with a basic plan while the premium provisioning issue is resolved by support or your admin.
To keep working with the team immediately, create or switch to a basic plan:
- In Planner, select New plan in the left navigation.
- In New plan, choose Basic instead of Premium, name the plan, and select Create plan.
- Use this basic plan for your tasks until the premium environment is correctly provisioned.
If a plan was already created as premium and is blocking collaboration, check the Plan details area for an option to downgrade it back to a standard/basic plan; this allows the team to continue working on the same plan without requiring premium access.
For the underlying provisioning issue (the spinner that never completes), contact your Microsoft 365 or Azure admin or open a support ticket so Microsoft can check tenant-level flags or provisioning errors for premium Planner/Project services.
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