An appropriate Project Plan license needs to be assigned to your Office 365 users to use Project for the web or Roadmap. However, users that are assigned certain Office 365 licenses are allowed to have view access to Project for the web and Roadmap.This will allow them to have read-only access to projects and roadmaps that are shared with them, without needing to be assigned a Project Plan license.
To assign tasks, your project needs to be associated with an Office 365 Group. If you’re the project owner, you can: Add your project to a group by choosing Group members at the top of your project. Add or remove people from the project’s group. To assign a task: In the Assigned to column for a task, select the person icon. If you have multiple Office products you may have to scroll through the list of your owned products, or if you have an Microsoft 365 subscription, in the header, select Services and subscriptionswhich lists all the Microsoft products you own. Locate the version of Project you want to install and select Install.
If your users need to be able to edit or create projects or roadmaps, you will need to purchase the appropriate Project Plan license and assign it to the user.
Note
For more information about Project Plan subscriptions and understand what the capabilities of an Office 365 user are, see the Project service description.
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Office 365 subscription with view access
Office 365 view access applies to the following families of Office 365 suites and their education counterparts.
- Microsoft 365 F3 and Office 365 F3
- Office 365 E1
- Microsoft 365 for business
- Microsoft E3 and Office 365 E3
- Microsoft E5 and Office 365 E5
Within each subscription there are two apps which can be seen from the Microsoft 365 Admin center.
- Project for Office (Plan X)
- Common Data Service
The 'Plan' in the title of Project for Office comes from the family of suite the app is included in. Both apps (from the same subscription) must be assigned to the user to view Project for the web or Roadmap.
Project for Office App
Family Subscription | Admin center Display Name | Id | Name |
---|---|---|---|
F3 | Project for Office (Plan F) | 7f6f28c2-34bb-4d4b-be36-48ca2e77e1ec | PROJECT_O365_F3 |
E1 | Project for Office (Plan E1) | a55dfd10-0864-46d9-a3cd-da5991a3e0e2 | PROJECT_O365_P1 |
E3 | Project for Office (Plan E3) | 31b4e2fc-4cd6-4e7d-9c1b-41407303bd66 | PROJECT_O365_P2 |
E5 | Project for Office (Plan E5) | b21a6b06-1988-436e-a07b-51ec6d9f52ad | PROJECT_O365_P3 |
Note: Microsoft 365 for business subscriptions include Project for Office (Plan E1), Project for Office (Plan E3) or Project for Office (Plan E5).
Common Data Service App
Family Subscription | Admin center Display Name | Id | Name |
---|---|---|---|
F3 | Common Data Service | ca6e61ec-d4f4-41eb-8b88-d96e0e14323f | DYN365_CDS_O365_F1 |
E1 | Common Data Service | 40b010bb-0b69-4654-ac5e-ba161433f4b4 | DYN365_CDS_O365_P1 |
E3 | Common Data Service | 4ff01e01-1ba7-4d71-8cf8-ce96c3bbcf14 | DYN365_CDS_O365_P2 |
E5 | Common Data Service | 28b0fa46-c39a-4188-89e2-58e979a6b014 | DYN365_CDS_O365_P3 |
See Also
Remove Project from the Office 365 App Launcher
Project architecture overview
Office 365 platform service description
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Microsoft Project Plans:
Microsoft offers three Project plans: Plan 1, Plan 3, Plan 5
Microsoft Project Plan 1
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Microsoft Project Plan 3
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Advanced portfolio management solution for projects with complex requirements. Includes all the features of Project Plan 3. Earlier known as Project Online Premium, Project Plan 5 has premium PM features like resource management which can be useful for large-scale projects.
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Frequently Asked Questions on Microsoft Project
How to use Microsoft Project?
Microsoft Project, world’s most popular project management tool, is designed to help project managers in scheduling tasks, allocating resources, maintaining budgets and dealing with workloads. The new Microsoft Project is all intuitive and is available in grid and board views to organize your plans to tiniest of details. Many other applications like Excel, Planner can be integrated with MS Project.
What are the benefits of using Microsoft Project?
Microsoft’s primary scheduling software offers a plethora of benefits for project managers. It makes easy for the entire project team to collaborate for the project and provide transparency on every aspect of the project whether it be tracking progress, allocating resources, or managing budget.
Can I use Microsoft Project for agile projects?
Yes. The latest version of Project allows you to use any methodology that suits the requirements of your project: Agile, Waterfall or Hybrid. You can switch easily between Sprint, Kanban, or Standard Views. Get agile reports in Microsoft Project. Agile capabilities of Microsoft Project were already developing since past two version. With the latest version of Microsoft Project, it reaches its culmination for agile technology.
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