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MS project online single user license
Hi,
I am using MS project online in a teams environment.
The plan was to use it personally to track my personal actions and i have signed up to it using my personal card on Project plan 1.
I didn't realize that once i set up the tab it contacted the 200 members in the team giving them access.
After the trial ends, will i be charged for all 200 members in the team?
Thank you.
- Lee60282 --
The 200 members of your team will be given Read-Only access to the tasks to which they are assigned, but they WILL NOT be charged any fee for Project for the Web (this is the real name of the app you are using). If you need any of your team members to be able to update their task progress in a project, only then would you need to get them a Project Plan 1 license. Hope this helps. Lee060282 I'll add a bit to this based on what I'm seeing when testing this functionality.
- If assigned to tasks, users with an E3/E5 license can update Finish date or % Complete and access additional features mentioned in the link below.
- If these users already have, or sign up for a trial, Plan 1 or Plan 3 license they will have access to the features listed in the link below.
For additional details by license type review this article
Microsoft Project for the web service description - Service Descriptions | Microsoft Learn
The below documentation reads as though, a single Project Plan 1 (Project for the Web) license is required to create and assign tasks and only an O365 license is required to complete the assigned tasks.
Licenses for customizations of Project for the web - Project for the web | Microsoft LearnI have seen mixed information on this on the web and was just hoping for some definitive confirmation.
Also, any advice on implementing this in a way that would avoid the whole signing up a team for a trial would be greatly appreciated.cheesedburger This link should help Microsoft Project for the web service description - Service Descriptions | Microsoft Learn
In my previous post the E3/E5 license are the O365 licenses you mentioned and regarding tasks, they can only set % Complete and mark a task completed.
As for licensing, unless the users in your environment by default have an E3/E5 license they'll have to sign up for a trial or you'll have to sign-up for a monthly subscription.Microsoft will prompt E3/E5 users with a Get trial, or Get subscriptions button in various place: Project Home page, Planner Hub, etc. You sharepoint admin can disable the Get trials button, but the Get subscriptions button cannot be disabled per our conversations with Microsoft.
