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Microsoft Project and Planner AMA

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 09:00 AM PDT
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Join us for this AMA to learn about new and upcoming features for Project for the web, Planner, and Tasks that can help you run projects more efficiently for successful delivery and engage with produ...
Dylan_Snodgrass
Updated Dec 27, 2024
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Neil_Iles
Copper Contributor
May 10, 2023

Nice update. However, we have just deployed the full Microsoft PftW Power App capability into the Power Platform, based on the Microsoft Roadmap of future developments that were promised late last year and earlier this year (e.g. Teams integration, seeing project tasks in ToDo etc). Now we are told that our deployed PftW App is not able to take advantage of the these new integration features as it is not in the "default environment". On top of that, the hours and cost of the work we have put into to developing our maturity in using our PftW Environment and the quantity of projects we have setup, none of these are able to be migrated to the "default environment" at all. Meaning we have to start again, or we have to choose to continue without any of the integration capabilities. We feel we have been misled by Microsoft's promotion of a full Project for the Web capability, with full PPM capabilities and integrated PowerBi reporting, but we now cannot use any of planned integration features.
At least give us the ability to export our existing PftW projects from our environment and then import them into the "default environment" where these integrations are possible.

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Ian Bruckner
Iron Contributor
May 10, 2023
I've had to temper my excitement and expectations since their launch of P4W as it being an eventual replacement for Project Online. Turns out it's an eveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeentual, probably, replacement. We just started dipping our toes into the water to give team members visibility and access into tasks so they hopefully take ownership of them instead of standing up shadow trackers in gitlab, asana, etc. But for now, anything in P4W needs to also exist in Project Online for us so we don't lose that maturity... so the cruddy part is that we have dual entry / maintenance of systems... all while trying to keep costs down since EDU licensing, despite msft's promises on their web pages that you don't need to have different licensing... in EDU you do and requires a substantial increase in licensing costs for us despite getting minimal increased value from a "planner on steroids" So since we're not licensing everyone since it costs so much more, we really just have a prettier web-based view of what we'd normally have done in project-desktop... but all our employees are expecting full-featured modern tools like Monday.com, gitlab, asana, etc.
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May 10, 20239:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT