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LAITPM
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Apr 15, 2025

GCC-High and Planner/Project for the Web/Teams/PowerApps/Accelerator

I have so many questions and I'm not entirely sure where to post or what to start with. I know this is a lot and I thank you in advance for whichever parts you can answer or point me to the correct answer. I have already been digging (and digging…) through KB articles, but it's a lot to go through and my technical skills are more of an understanding (it's why I'm a PM ^_^). If I am unclear in anything please ask and I'll try to rephrase/explain.

 

  • Company is in a GCC-High environment. 
  • Team:
    • Dept Head - needs all the access necessary to manage all programs and report to C-suite
    • PM1 - me - needs all the access necessary to manage the platform and projects
    • PM2 & PM3 - needs access necessary to manage their own projects, create reports, assign resources
      • No PowerBI and least amount of/no admin necessary
  • I (PM1) am a program manager, helping implement/improve PM processes
    • I have the Plan 3 license, but can be moved to the Plan 5 license
    • I also have a PowerBI premium license
    • I think we're all on a G3(?) license? I can't seem to find the page to login to and check again
  • industry is manufacturing
  • We do have "vanilla" D365 (and apparently D365 Project Operations was unusable)

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Here's what I have to work with:

  • Project Desktop/Project Online (prefer to get rid of this)
  • Project for the Web (referred to here as PftW)
  • "old" Planner
    • Planner Premium is (by all accounts) not currently available for GCC-H
  • Teams
  • PowerApps (default environment)
    • I really want Accelerator, but am still watching videos to try and figure out how to work it

Most important stuff I'm trying to figure out:

  • I will be the System Admin for our PM platform (Project for the Web, Planner, Project (PowerApp), Accelerator)
    • What security roles do I need and where, especially in PowerApps?
      • I can't find a screenshot of what's available so I have no idea what to research for
    • will those security roles also cover PftW/Planner?
    • Would I need any other permissions for Accelerator?
  • Teams Apps:
    • is the Project app in Teams available for GCC-H?
      • everything I see says yes, but I can't find it in our "add-an-app" so I just want to make sure it is before I ask IT to go look again and enable it.
      • Where does this pull from? 
        • Will it pull from PftW and planner? (since ours are kinda separate, sorta)
  • Accelerator:
    •  IT would obvs need to deploy, but would each of us on Team be able to use it or it would need to be added for each user?
  • Resource Management
    • Groups/teams:
      • Best way to assign a team (or sub-team)
      • I cannot make groups, IT does not want to make more groups/teams
        • We were able to get 1 team created with ALL members who would be assigned at least a task
        • Can I create groups/teams within the resource management console in PowerApps that doesn't require any other resources (like an email/teams/sharepoint, etc?)
      • My understanding:
        • In PftW, you have to assign a project to a group. All projects are assigned to Group 1 (everyone)
          • I want to:
            • Assign a task to a "sub-group" like "Production" or "Engineering", but only one group can be assigned to a project
          • Current workaround: make a new drop-down column OR use labels, but unsure if this would pull correctly into PowerApp/Accelerator
    • Do I need any special permissions/security roles to manage resources in PowerApp?

If you made it this far, I really appreciate it. I thank you for any help/insight you can offer.

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