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Project Online - Granting access to Project Site, Schedule, and Project Details
Currently in the process of setting up our new PWA so this is of interest to me.
Do team members need to have a license for project plan 1,3 or 5 in order to interact with the PWA in any way? I've got plan 5, whilst 2 project managers have plan 3, and our team leads have plan 1.
Our company assigns a MS 365 business basic license to all employees so i'm led to believe that they should be able to view anything shared to them directly from the PWA. However, when we first experimented with project on the web (prior to upgrading to project online) we had issues where some users could not view a project plan even though they were part of the teams group it had been shared to.
Good question. Anyone who is an application administrator will need Project Plan 5, which you already have. Project managers will need Project Plan 3, which your two PMs already have. Depending on what you want your Team Leads to do (such as open and edit a project), they will either need the Project Plan 3 license or the Project Essentials license. Project Plan 1 is the WRONG license for your team leads, as this grants access only to the Project for the Web application, which is not connected to Project Online in any way, shape, or form. Team members will need the Project Essentials license as well. This will allow everyone in your organization to use Project Online as they need to do. Hope this helps.
Hi Dale, that's great to know, thank you for your help. It would be good if MS made these things much clearer instead of needing to ask a forum.
It's the same setting up the PWA, the guides on youtube give off the impression that everything works out of the box but it's not the case, and now i've got a bit of work to do setting it up. Luckily there's this forum, the MS getting started guide and some vids on youtube. Fingers crossed!