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Microsoft Planner: Linking Plans to a Project task
For those on the Office Insider builds – or First Release – you will already be seeing a new link in the ribbon for Tasks in Project Online Desktop Client. This is a feature only available for the...
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Microsoft Planner: Considerations for Reporting–Part 4 of 3
As I mentioned in Part 3 – there are a few other things I wanted to cover, so here is part 4. If you didn’t see the other parts – then here are the links – so come back when you’ve read them....
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Project Online: Setting Permissions in sites beyond PWA
Thanks goes to Paul Mather for most of the technical content of this particular post – as I’m taking a couple of his ideas and bringing them together. I'm using PowerShell to set permissions in...
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Microsoft Planner: A Change Management Solution for Office 365
MessageCenterToPlannerCodeSamplesV2 TL;DR version - Create a plan with buckets for you products, get an AppId for a Native App that can read SHD and read/write all groups – then update the various...
View ArticleOffice 365 Message Center to Planner: PowerShell walk-though–Part 1
*** Update 10/28/2017 - made code correction mentioned below - setting and using an environment variable for my tenantId $uri = "https://manage.office.com/api/v1.0/" + $env:tenantId +...
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Office 365 Message Center to Planner: PowerShell walk-through–Part 2
The code I am walking through here is that which drives the sample I blogged about in the posting...
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Project Online: Changes to Granularity of Time phased OData
This was announced a while back as you needed to be aware of the impact on reporting – and you should have seen the posting in the Office 365 Admin message center. This is rolling out now, and the...
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Project Online: Provisioning a new PWA with PowerShell
This post comes from my “You learn something new every day” collection – and after responding to e-mail saying the only way to provision a PWA site in Project Online is through the UI I thought I’d...
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Microsoft Planner: New Year–New Features!
This year sees an acceleration in the delivery of new features to Planner and I’m taking the opportunity to walk through some of these and show how one might use them. The Plan I am using for my...
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Microsoft Planner: When is a plan not a plan?
This posting came about from a customer query where they were not seeing all the plans in their mobile clients that they see on their Planner Hub on the web. And the answer? When it is a Group – that...
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Project Online: Reporting and Portfolio Analysis
The new reporting options that are rolling out to Project Online customers allow you to choose how you want your time phased data and give you control of the time buckets you use – and you can choose...
View ArticleProject Online: Why might my site go read-only?
We are rolling out a change currently that could set some PWA sites to read-only – so I thought it worth mentioning 3 reasons why you might see a PWA site go into a read only mode – which would show as...
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Microsoft Planner: Where did my New plan option go?
This one should only affect administrators, but the behavior will also help explain why other users may not see the New plan option. So what does this look like? When Planner loads initially as it...
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Microsoft Planner and Guest Access: What you need to know
The new guest access feature for Microsoft Planner is now enabled for all farms - hopefully you saw the Message Center post! This Planner task version of the message center post is courtesy of my...
View ArticleProject Online: Setting a Status Manager with CSOM
Just a quick post today to share something that might help scenarios where you need to change a status manager for a task. As you may well know, it isn't possible to just select anyone to be a status...
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Office 365: New Reader role for the Message Center
Regular readers will know that the message center is somewhere that I feel we make it too hard for our customers reach – and the people who could get there (admins) may not fully understand the impact...
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Project, Project Online and Planner Accessibility
The Project and Planner engineering teams have been hard at work improving the accessibility of our products. A set of documents is now live that walks through some of the screen reading functionality...
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A Flow Custom Connector to read O365 Communications API
A while back I wrote a blog post walking through how one could use Azure Functions, The Office365 Communications API and Microsoft Planner to help with change management in Office 365. The post was...
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Project Online: Getting Started with Roadmap
As we start deploying the various pieces of infrastructure needed to support Roadmap you may see some different things in your Office 365 Tenant – so here is a quick explanation of the different parts...
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A new Blog home for Project Support!
You may have noticed recently that the Project Support blog on TechNet has gone away – and you may even have seen an “Oops! That page can’t be found.” message. The good news is that the content is...
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