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

0. Introduction

01 - Using Microsoft Project Online
02 - What you should know
03 - Navigating to site settings

1. Setup

04 - Managing licenses and channels
05 - Working with Office 365 subscriptions
06 - Setting project permission modes
07 - Understanding compatibility

2. Security

08 - Managing permissions
09 - Managing security templates
10 - Managing categories
11 - Managing groups
12 - Managing users
13 - Managing Active Directory group settings
14 - Managing delegates

3. Enterprise Data

15 - Working with enterprise custom fields and lookup tables
16 - Understanding departments
17 - Understanding the RBS
18 - Working with Enterprise Global
19 - Working with enterprise calendars
20 - Creating new resources

4. Database Administration

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

5. Look and Feel

24 - Managing views
25 - Understanding grouping formats
26 - Understanding Gantt chart formats
27 - Working with the Quick Launch

6. Time and Task Management

28 - Define fiscal periods
29 - Manage time reporting periods
30 - Timesheet settings and defaults
31 - Understanding administrative time
32 - Task settings and display
33 - Managing timesheets, part 1
34 - Managing timesheets, part 2
35 - Establishing operation policies, part 1
36 - Establishing operation policies, part 2

7. Personal Settings

37 - Managing alerts and reminders

8. Workflow and Project Detail Pages

38 - Working with enterprise project types
39 - Working with Project Detail pages
40 - Creating a custom Project site template
41 - Understanding workflow phases
42 - Understanding workflow stages
43 - Creating an enterprise project template
44 - Creating a basic workflow, part 1
45 - Creating a basic workflow, part 2
46 - Using an enterprise project type

Conclusion

47 - Next steps