Open MS Project file in Project Plan 3

Hello, My company is switching over to the online Plan 3 version of Project. Some folks in our company still have MS Project on their computers. Is there anyway to open a .mpp file from my comput...

RodFromm

May 01, 2024

Sara_Katz For starters, are you using MS Project Online (MSPO) or Project for the Web (PFTW)?

If you are using MSPO there are different versions of MSP Desktop. One will connect to MSPO and the other will not. Your org may need to update the version you're using and reinstall MSP on everyone's machine.

If you're using PFTW, I'd recommend you review the feature availability for each license type in the link below as there are differences between what a Plan 1 and Plan 3 license can do.
Microsoft Project for the web service description - Service Descriptions | Microsoft Learn
Here is a summary of the differences. Also a Plan 1 license does not get an install of MSP desktop software.

Feature Category	Feature	Plan 1	Plan 3
Project, task, and time management
	Task History	No	Yes

Collaboration and Agile
	Task Conversations	Yes1	Yes1

Advanced Resource and Schedule management	Advanced Dependencies	View only	Yes
	Roadmaps	View only	Yes
	Critical path	No	Yes
	Assignments View	No	Yes
	Create resource requests2	View only	Yes
	Accept a booking proposal2	View only	Yes

	Use Project with custom tables5	5	15
Power Automate Workflows and Business Process Flows6
	Define Power Automate Business Process flows that utilize Project data including custom tables and columns.	No	Yes

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