Microsoft Project Online: Administration

Course details

Learn how to administer Microsoft Project Online and help your organization more effectively manage projects. Follow along with project management expert John Riopel, PMP, as he walks through the many features and settings that can be customized in Microsoft Project Online. John shows how to manage licenses and subscriptions, adjust your organization's security settings, and create custom fields, templates, and workflows to address your team's unique needs. He also shows how to customize the end user interface and adjust time and task settings. Plus, learn how to work directly with the Project database, from managing enterprise objects to understanding the queue process.

Learning objectives
Managing subscriptions and licenses
Setting project permissions modes
Managing users, groups, and permissions
Working with custom fields and lookup tables
Creating new enterprise resources
Deleting enterprise objects
Managing the queue process
Updating views and other interface options
Managing time and task settings
Creating templates
Creating workflows
Creating enterprise project types

Concepts

Introduction

Using Microsoft Project Online
What you should know
Navigating to site settings

Setup

Managing licenses and channels
Working with Office 365 subscriptions
Setting project permission modes
Understanding compatibility

Security

Managing permissions
Managing security templates
Managing categories
Managing groups
Managing users
Managing Active Directory group settings
Managing delegates

Enterprise Data

Working with enterprise custom fields and lookup tables
Understanding departments
Understanding the RBS
Working with Enterprise Global
Working with enterprise calendars
Creating new resources

Database Administration

Deleting enterprise objects
Using force check-in of enterprise objects
Analyzing the queue

Look and Feel

Managing views
Understanding grouping formats
Understanding Gantt chart formats
Working with the Quick Launch

Time and Task Management

Define fiscal periods
Manage time reporting periods
Timesheet settings and defaults
Understanding administrative time
Task settings and display
Managing timesheets, part 1
Managing timesheets, part 2
Establishing operation policies, part 1
Establishing operation policies, part 2

Personal Settings

Managing alerts and reminders

Workflow and Project Detail Pages

Working with enterprise project types
Working with Project Detail pages
Creating a custom Project site template
Understanding workflow phases
Understanding workflow stages
Creating an enterprise project template
Creating a basic workflow, part 1
Creating a basic workflow, part 2
Using an enterprise project type

Conclusion

Next steps