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Looking to create a connection from your Project Online environment to Excel? Excel is a powerful and one of the most commonly used reporting tools for Project Online. Excel allows you to pull, refresh, and transform data so it’s customized for your organization’s reporting needs.

Before you begin    Make sure your PC meets the system requirements. The steps below are for the subscription versions of Project Online, and the non-subscription versions of Project 2019, 2016, or 2013. (For Project 2010 or 2007, follow the steps in Office 2010 or Office 2007.) Project is sold as a stand-alone application so if […]

Two important roles when it comes to scheduling with Project Online are Status Manager and Default Assignment Owner. In this blog, we’ll walk through the difference between the two.

What is Microsoft Project Online? Microsoft PPM is a powerful, cloud-based service offered through Office 365.  Office 365 Project is a solution for Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) as well as every day work and centralized management. Project Online Professional provides features to manage the tactical day-to-day activities of managing a project schedule.  The PPM […]

Microsoft Project Online is Microsoft’s cloud-based enterprise solution for project and portfolio management (PPM).  Here we provide some details about the product as well as licensing information as of the date of this post. So What's included in the Microsoft PPM Office 365 Cloud Solution? Microsoft Project Online Microsoft Project Online is a service offering […]

How to Install Microsoft Project from your O365 Subscription Log in to your O365 portal by navigating to https://portal.office.com   Click on “Install Office” then “Install software”   This will bring you to the “My installs” screen. Find the Project section and click “Install Project” Select either the 32- or 64-bit version, depending on preference. […]

 Wouldn't it be great to be able to see selected task-level milestones in a Project Center view in Microsoft Project Online & Server? Well you can, and in this Microsoft Project Online Training video we show you how! We start by demonstrating the milestone view, and the value it provides. Next we create one […]

If you're like me, you have heard about this functionality coming to Microsoft Project Online for quite sometime, however, you've not yet seen it on your Microsoft Project Ribbon yet. This is most likely related to the update channel currently reflected in your PC or laptop. If you navigate to the Windows Update area on […]

Understanding resource quotas Server resources are a numerical way of representing server resources, including RAM and CPU utilization. Each SharePoint Online deployment is allocated a server resource figure based on the number of user licenses. To view and change the resources for an available site collection perform the following: login to the Office 365 portal […]

Hi folks! This is a quick post to a quick reference guide on how to clear the Microsoft Project Local cache. We also have a blog post of the same title, Clear Cache in MS Project Professional, however, we thought this downloadable guide would be useful. QRG (Clear MS Project Local Cache) -Dan

If you like the Project Timeline view like most folks do then you probably use the one in the Project Site as well. Depending on your setup, however, you may notice that the timeline in your Project Site does not reflect the same reality as the timeline in Project Web App. Well actually the information […]

In order to clear the cache in Microsoft Project Professional we will start with the product opened with a blank project schedule as shown below. Important, DO NOT have any project schedules opened at this time in Microsoft Project. Continue with the following steps: 1. Click the File tab then select Options in the Quick […]

Hi there, I was working with a customer recently that was experiencing this error.  It was when one user was trying to create project via an EPT.  What made the issue more complex is that it only occurred with this one user, and, there were other users in the same security group.  If you look […]

1. If a project or resource stuck in a checked out state, you can force back in. Follow the steps below.     Navigate to Server Settings, then Force Check-in Enterprise Objects under the Queue and Database Administration section. Note: In this screen, you will be able to see all checked-out objects. Use the drop-down […]

If you’ve ever tried to use the Resource Capacity section of Microsoft Project Online and received a message like this, then you either would have ended up adjusting your query dates here for a range that is within that set by your administrator, or, you adjusted the Resource Capacity settings at the system level.  The […]

This is a Office 365 message from Microsoft MC106623 Plan For Change Published On : June 21, 2017 We’re adding the ability for a PWA admin to set how to rollup task and assignment timephased data. We’ll support weekly, monthly, fiscal period, or the previously supported by day grouping for timephased data. You could also […]

If you like the Project Timeline view like most folks do then you probably use the one in the Project Site as well.  Depending on your setup, however, you may notice that the timeline in your Project Site does not reflect the same reality as the timeline in Project Web App.  Well actually the information […]

Below is a message from Microsoft Support: Beginning in June 30, 2017, Project Online will require the latest version of Project to connect to Office 365. We are making architectural changes to features in Project Online which impact older versions of Project, connecting to Project Online. Originally, we communicated this would happen on February 28, […]