Microsoft 365 : New Feature – Microsoft Project usage data is available in Microsoft Admin Center

Hi All,
Greetings for the day!!!
Today small but useful new feature related to Microsoft Project
New Feature : Microsoft Project usage data is available in Microsoft Admin Center
Details:
- Project usage data is included in the Microsoft Admin Center Customer facing usage reports
- These reports are used to see the activity and usage of Project in our environment
What are usage reports:
- Microsoft 365 usage reports show how our organization users are using Microsoft 365 services
- These reports are available for the last 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, and 180 days
- Data won’t exist for all reporting periods right away. The reports become available within 48 hours
Permissions required to view the usage reports
- Users having following permissions can view the reports
- Global Administrator
- Global Reader
- Exchange Admin
- SharePoint Admin
- Usage Summary Reports reader
- Reports reader
- Teams Administrator
- Teams Communications Administrator
How to view Microsoft Project usage data in Microsoft 365 admin center
- Navigate to Microsoft 365 admin center – navigate to https://admin.microsoft.com/ OR https://portal.office.com
- If we navigate through https://portal.office.com we will have portal like as shown in below fig

- From office portal, from left pane click on “Admin” link as shown in above fig
- On click of “Admin” link we will navigated to “Microsoft 365 admin center” as shown in below fig
- To navigate to “Usage report” from Microsoft 365 admin center – from left pane – Expand “Reports” section as shown in above fig
- Click on “Usage” link as shown in above fig
- On click of “Usage” link we will be navigated to – reportsUsage page as shown in below fig

- On reportsUsage page , scroll down to bottom
- On bottom of page we will see “Microsoft Project” section as shown in below fig
- On reportsUsage page, under “Microsoft Project” we will see report for “active users” as shown in above fig
- We have an option to choose for both the platforms – Microsoft Project Desktop and Microsoft Project Web as shown in above fig
- To have detailed report please click on “View more” button
- On click on “View more” we will be navigating to “ProjectActivity” page as shown in below fig

- The above report shows following charts
- Active users
- Shows the daily active users on each day over time
- Currently, this includes only Project for the Web and Project Online desktop client
- Active users (by client)
- Shows the daily active users on each day over time, broken out by client (Project for the Web vs. Project Online desktop client)
- Project Activity
- Shows the number of daily sessions of Project over time, for each client (Project for the Web and Project Online desktop client)
- Task activity
- Shows you the daily number of tasks created or edited over time in Project for the Web
- Active users
- The report also has a table that shows activity for each project user in your environment
Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID – 93278

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