SPO - Project Online Professional

A complete online project management solution to help keep your projects, resources, and teams organized and on track. Plan projects, track status, and collaborate with others from virtually anywhere.

Your Project Online service requires the use of SharePoint Online, which will be provisioned for you as part of the Project Online service. Rights to the SharePoint Online functionality provided with Project Online Professional or Premium are limited to storing and accessing data to support Project Online. 

What's Included in Project Online Professional License

Office apps
      
     Office Online

     Project

      Project online essentials

• Team member collaboration
• Timesheets

     Project online

• Plan projects with familiar scheduling tools like Gantt charts and built-in customizable templates to get you started
• Track and monitor project health including everything from burn down charts to financials
• Save your projects to the cloud for ease of access and seamless collaboration with your team
• Assign resources to project tasks and request and lock in resources

Collaboration and communication

OneDrive
Storage	In-place holds
File sharing	Offline files
Data-loss prevention
SharePoint
Automate work	eDiscovery
Catalog	In-place hold
Category page and catalog item page	Intranets
Communication sites	Search
Content management	Team sites
Cross-Site Publishing	Mobile access to intranets, team sites and content
DLP capabilities

Similar to older Project (2010, 2013) environments, the Project Online is layered on SharePoint Online. 

When you log into Office 365 there is a menu bar across the top of the page. If you have been assigned a license to Project Online then you will see a Projects link either on the menu bar or in the ellipsis menu (...) that displays between Sites and Admin. 

Clicking the Projects link will take you to the default Project Web App (PWA) site created by Microsoft when your organization first added Project Online to your tenant. 

For Ex: https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/pwa (Project Web App Site Template)

In Classic SP admin center >> site collections >> New , you will notice new option Private Site Collection with Project Web App

Also Project Web App in the Site Collections Menu icons.

In Modern SP admin center >> Active sites >> Create >> Others, you will notice new template Project Web App site.

If your Tenant Administrator has created additional PWA sites, you will not be able to navigate to those sites via this link. The Projects link only goes to the first PWA site setup online. The address of this default site is https://<your_tenant>.sharepoint.com/sites/PWA. 

If your tenant admin deletes the default site for some reason then this link will be bad and you may recieve and error: a 404 – webpage cannot be found. The link actually goes to -my.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/MyProjects.aspx">https://<your_tenant>-my.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/MyProjects.aspx – which redirects to the default site.

Having a license to Project Online is just the first step in getting started with Project Web App (PWA). Next, your account needs to be given permissions to access the PWA Home page by SharePoint admin or Tenant admin.