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Can you clarify what will eventually be depricated and what will continue to exist in the long term? I assume "Dataverse" based Planner, and Project Operations (D365) will all continue to exist going forward...is that correct?
- Does that mean Project Desktop, Project Server, and Project Online will eventually be deprecated?
- Will Project Operations (D365) be affected by the roadmap at all? Will that also consolidate with Planner or will it remain a separate solution?
- Will Azure DevOps be affected by the roadmap at all? Will that also consolidate with Planner or will it remain a separate solution?
- Will there eventually be a Desktop app that connects to Planner?
As announced at Ignite, there is no end of life date for Project Online. Project Server and Project Desktop follow their own lifecycles. Project Server Subscription Edition is an evergreen release following the modern lifecycle, and expect Project Desktop future releases to stay in line with Office as it has in the past. Project Operations isn't affected by the new Planner. No plans for connection to the desktop currently, and no effects on DevOps. We'd love to hear the scenarios behind your questions Jason.
- Hi Brian, I was assuming that Project Operations uses the Project for the web schedule? Is that changing in any way?
- Nothing changing in Project Operations Erik, they will still use the schedule. Of course some changes will be coming, and Project Operations already support configuration of Hours Per Day etc. features that will also get to new Planner premium plans at some point.
- Thanks Brian. It's still confusing as to why Microsoft wants to keep so many different project tools. Are there long-term plans to consolidate all the project tools into one? The presentation regarding "New Planner" says things like "...it will be scalable.", "...it can handle agile and waterfall use cases.", "...it can be used for software development projects.". If all of that is going to be true, then why doesn't Microsoft put together a long-term plan to consolidate into a single tool for task/project/program/portfolio management that is "scalable", "flexible" (agile/waterfall), and can handle any type of projects?
