New Microsoft Project Announcements – September 2020
This September some new features for Microsoft Project were announced as well as some upcoming features. Check out our YouTube channel for videos of these exciting new products and features in action!
New Features:
- Task Custom Fields: Efficiently store custom information about your projects by adding custom fields. Check out our detailed blog post about this feature.
- Dynamics 365 Project Operations: a new application that has everything you need to run your service business through Dynamics. It will start being released to select clients starting in October. For more information on this product, check out the Project Operations overview page.
- Group by Assigned to: You can organize your tasks by assignee in the Board view.
- Self-Service Onboarding: Customers can make a self-service purchase online. New users can try out Project and other Microsoft solutions on their own.
Upcoming Features:
- Project & Roadmap in Microsoft Teams: Starting in October, you’ll be able to add a project or roadmap as a tab in Teams. Chat with your teammates while viewing and updating your work.
- Export to Excel: Export your project grid into an Excel spreadsheet. Share this information with colleagues and analyze Project data using the power of Excel.
- Share projects with groups you don’t own: You can see all your added groups when you add a group to your project. Easily share your work with all the important people without creating new groups.
*information taken from https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/project-blog/project-for-the-web-september-2020-update/ba-p/1731605
