Project Online is a flexible online solution for project portfolio management (PPM) and everyday work. Delivered through Office 365, Project Online provides powerful project management capabilities for planning, prioritizing, and managing projects and project portfolio investments—from almost anywhere on almost any device. Project Online can be used by administrators, portfolio managers.
- In this article. 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.
- Easily manage projects with help from the simple, visual tools in Project Plan 1. Start quickly and take control of any project. Use easy and efficient planning and status tracking. Collaborate with others from virtually anywhere.
- Project Plan 365 is an intuitive solution for project planning and project collaboration perfect for individual Project Managers and/or small teams working in fast-paced collaborative environments which may be across disparate geographic locations. Project Plan 365 looks and feels exactly like MS Project! Project Plan 365 provides support for all MS Project standard views like Gantt Chart.
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.
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.
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 Plan 365
- 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
Project Plan 365 For Mac
| 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
Project Plan 365 Price
Project Plan 365 Download
Remove Project from the Office 365 App Launcher
Project architecture overview
Office 365 platform service description