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Welcome to this recorded webinar, in which we go over some very helpful tips for project managers using Microsoft Project Online!

So you want to create powerful reports and dashboards? Well Power BI is certainly one of the strongest technologies available to create reports and dynamic dashboards for various roles in your organization.

In this video we demonstrate creating a flow with Microsoft Power Automate that is triggered from the Create a Task in Project Online trigger event.

The Tasks by Planner and To Do app in Microsoft Teams from Office 365 brings together your individual and personal tasks from To Do and Outlook with your team tasks from Microsoft Planner. Project management is now easier when you can see your work in one place.

Flexible Deployment, which is part of the Microsoft Dataverse (previously Common Data Service (CDS)) platform. Flexible Deployment enables you to create different environments. And the different environments are created based on organizational, business unit, or team needs.

In this video we will demonstrate using Power Automate to create an automated flow to automate the creation of the Teams site when a project is first published.

In MS Teams, tabs may be added for your favorite tools and important files. You can collaborate real-time on documents, and store or share them using the seamless integration with SharePoint.  These are all part of the collaboration features of the product which provides a robust user interface.

Most often if a Project is very large and complex using subprojects may help simplify management. Projects that contain hundreds of tasks are easier to manager when broken into subprojects and linked via intra-project dependencies.

Microsoft Project Online is a powerful and effective project management tool built for Project Portfolio Management (PPM), as well as planning work of all types that is performed each and every day. Project Online is provided through Microsoft Office 365 and helps organizations of all types and sizes to manage project and resources, as well as select portfolios of projects that deliver the value required by the business.

Setting up Active Directory synchronization with Microsoft Project Online helps System Administrators simplify the maintenance of adding/removing user access to the Project Online system. The Active Directory Sync will add users to Project Online in order to provide access to Project Web App and more, as well as allows users to be assigned as Resources on project. Before we get into the sync, lets talk just a bit about Active Directory.

Upon navigating to the Task tab in Microsoft Project for the Web, the page was blank. Since it worked fine in Microsoft Edge, I knew the issue was related to a browser setting.

Any local project schedules you have may be imported into Microsoft Project Online using the Import Project Wizard. The wizard walks you through a step-by-step process to ensure all necessary information is accurately and completely gathered and the project is successfully imported into the Enterprise System.

When it comes to developing reports and dashboards for Microsoft Project Online although there are many products to choose from, however, Power BI is one technology that is hard to beat.

Before executing a project you should consider saving a baseline. A baseline is a snapshot of the work, cost, and schedule estimates in your project schedule at a moment in time. The baseline represents the schedule all stakeholders approved prior to executing the project.

If you are curious how to use graphical indicators/icons to communicate how a project is tracking with Project for the Web then this video will surely be the one to watch. We cover each step required from saving images, to creating the icons as web resources in the Solution Explorer, modifying and uploading a Javascript file, to create a Project entity field called Overall Health, to accessing the function we created in the All Projects view.

In this video we demonstrate creating a custom Program Entity, several project and program fields, we add fields to the Project Information form and All Projects view, as well as Program Information form, we then create a Model-driven app, and finally expose the app in a Microsoft Teams Channel.

Reporting in Microsoft Project Online is very powerful. Harnessing that power is sometimes complex. Looking for a view of all projects grouped by Program, graphical indicators representing how the project is tracking on cost, schedule, and overall health would be very nice, yes? Learning just a little bit about how to configure MS Project Online will get you very far with the product.

There are many project management tools on the market. None provides more functionality for the money than the cloud based Microsoft Project Online. From project planning to portfolio management, to project approval governance, the solution has that and much more.