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Planner: Copy a plan to a premium plan

Brian-Smith on May 08 2024 02:04 PM
When you use the trial feature for premium plans you can promote a plan to be a premium plan a.k.a. Project for the web ...
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Using Power Automate for Project Lifecycle Workflows in Project Online – Part 3

Brian-Smith on Apr 10 2024 03:17 PM
In this latest posting I look at using Dataverse as another option for saving status, rather than the SharePoint lists s...
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Using Power Automate for Project Lifecycle Workflows in Project Online – Part 2

Brian-Smith on Mar 08 2024 01:30 PM
This 2nd article describes ways customers can obtain similar functionality to their current Project Online workflows usi...
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Using Power Automate for Project Lifecycle Workflows in Project Online – Part 1

Brian-Smith on Mar 06 2024 02:45 PM
This article describes ways customers can obtain similar functionality to the current workflows by using Power Automate ...
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Project Server: Project Subsite Lists Lack Essential Forms

Brian-Smith on Aug 08 2023 04:18 PM
This is an issue we heard from a few customers still on Project Server 2016 after they loaded some updates earlier in th...
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Understanding Assignment Schedules in Project for the Web

Brian-Smith on Jul 24 2023 02:03 PM
The idea for this blog post came from a recent support question from one of our Project Operations customers - but equal...
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Upgrading your Workflow Manager for Project Server

Brian-Smith on Mar 27 2023 08:34 AM
There was a recent release of a new Workflow Manager for all versions of SharePoint on-premises, so also therefore, for ...
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Reading Project Online OData with Azure Data Factory

Brian-Smith on Sep 02 2022 03:53 PM
If you are moving from SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) as your method of reading Project Online OData to Azure Da...
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Guest Users and Project for the web

Brian-Smith on May 12 2022 03:37 PM
If you can't add guests as members of Groups in Project (and you can elsewhere) then maybe the tenant admin hasn't set a...
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Project Server Subscription Edition Public Updates

Diana Balan on Dec 21 2021 04:15 AM
This article will keep the list of updates delivered for Project Server Subscription Edition
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Constraints, Calendars and Time Zones in Project

Brian-Smith on Sep 21 2021 05:00 AM
We often get support questions asking how Project calculates things - and it depends on a lot of settings - and also the...
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Schedule Modes, and task and resource usage in Project for the web

Brian-Smith on Aug 18 2021 02:31 PM
The new Project now allows you set set different schedule modes, so in addition to Fixed Duration, you can choose Fixed ...
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Getting M365 Admin Center info with the Graph API

Brian-Smith on Aug 16 2021 11:33 AM
The built-in sync to Planner in the Message Center is great, but there are still times when you might want to craft your...
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For those Microsoft 365 changes that need a project to implement

Brian-Smith on Feb 22 2021 03:02 PM
If you hadn't already realized - I am a big fan of the Message Center to Planner integration - but some changes we intro...
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Enterprise Global not loading after migration to Project Server 2019

Brian-Smith on Dec 02 2020 03:30 PM
Great to see so many people upgrading to the latest - but one issue we have heard is that the Enterprise Global template...
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App + User authentication and Project Online development

Brian-Smith on Nov 23 2020 02:43 PM
With the most recent updates to the SharePoint client object model (CSOM) libraries it is now possible to authenticate t...
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Project Online: Adding tasks where you want them with Power Automate

Brian-Smith on Feb 03 2020 10:46 AM
This is a guest post from Daniel Partridge - who answered an internal enquiry at Microsoft, for a colleague who needed t...
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My holiday gift to you - update posts are up to date!

Brian-Smith on Dec 27 2019 02:01 PM
I'd let these slip a bit - but I just updated the Project 2016, Project Server 2016 and Project Server 2019 posts with t...
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Project for the web - some users not resolving in the assigned to field

Brian-Smith on Nov 11 2019 09:00 AM
If you have had your Office 365 tenant for some time (since before Guests were a thing) and migrated accounts in from on...
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Roadmap - have you disabled some necessary services?

Brian-Smith on Aug 21 2019 06:58 AM
If Roadmap is telling you Sorry, something went wrong, we couldn't finish setting up Roadmap. Please contact your admin ...
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Project Online or Project Server - best leave the master pages alone!

Brian-Smith on Jul 11 2019 09:42 AM
We have always blocked SharePoint Designer from allowing master page edits as it can break PWA - and we had a post that ...
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Project Professional not working on Windows 7?

Brian-Smith on Jul 02 2019 01:35 PM
*** New info 7/9/2019 - see below *** There is an issue with a recent update (June 2019) of the Project Professional cli...
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Project and Project Online - multi factor authentication

Brian-Smith on Jun 17 2019 09:00 AM
This topic of MFA and PJO was a suggestion for the last blog on my old site from Didier Maignan. I missed the boat and t...
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Project Server 2019 Public Updates

Brian-Smith on May 21 2019 02:34 PM
This article will keep the list of updates delivered for Project Server 2019 - currently up to the February 2020 update.
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Where did that old MSDN/TechNet post go?

Brian-Smith on Apr 12 2019 02:06 PM
You may be landing here on a redirect from our MSDN or TechNet blogs. Most of the content of the Project Support blog is...
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All the 2010, 2013 and 2016 Project and Project Server Updates

Brian-Smith on Mar 29 2019 07:26 AM
I'm moved over and updated the pages of Public Updates for each of the Products - some have had to be split due to post ...
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Project 2016 Updates (RTM to December 2016)

Brian-Smith on Mar 29 2019 06:31 AM
As part of my Blog migration process I will be adding here the pages that listed all the updates for 2010, 2013 and 2016...
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Project Server 2013 - Which Public Update do you have? At least April 2018 I hope!

Brian-Smith on Mar 26 2019 09:06 AM
If you are still running Project Server 2013 then you should already know you are out of mainstream support - but next m...
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Project Server 2016 Public Updates

Brian-Smith on Mar 25 2019 03:00 PM
Now with updates through February 2020! As part of my Blog migration process I will be adding here the pages that listed...
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Project 2016 Public Updates (January 2017 to date)

Brian-Smith on Mar 25 2019 02:47 PM
Now up to December 2019! As part of my Blog migration process I will be adding here the pages that listed all the update...

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in Planner: Copy a plan to a premium plan on May 09 2024 11:35 AM
@DuncanGriffin Thanks for sharing!@Brian-Smith FYI There is already an option within Planner to convert a project to a Planner Premium (default environment only). As shown below, open project click .... then select Copy plan to Project.
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Brian-Smith
in Planner: Copy a plan to a premium plan on May 09 2024 07:47 AM
Good find @DuncanGriffin - thanks for sharing!
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DuncanGriffin
in Planner: Copy a plan to a premium plan on May 09 2024 03:18 AM
Thanks for this @Brian-Smith . Just checked and this also works for importing a Plan to Planner Premium in a Named Environment. When constructing the URL for import just add &org=<DynamicsEnvironmentName>. You can get the Dynamics Environment Name by opening the Project App or by opening any other p...
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TomacamoT
in Using Power Automate for Project Lifecycle Workflows in Project Online – Part 3 on Apr 12 2024 08:16 AM
I've been working with a MS engineer on building out Flows rather that SP2013 Workflows for my environment. He suggested going with a script-like method rather than Do...Until loops to avoid the 30 day Flow timeout and not require a PA Premium license. The plan is to run a kickstart Flow that will r...
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BillDow55
in Using Power Automate for Project Lifecycle Workflows in Project Online – Part 1 on Apr 04 2024 09:50 AM
Thanks Brian, I can't wait to dive into this! :)
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