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

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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
• 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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