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Microsoft Project Online—a trusted project management solution for over a decade—is officially retiring on September 30, 2026. If your organization relies on Project Online, now is the time to plan your transition to modern, AI-powered tools like Microsoft Planner and Project for the Web. Why Is Microsoft Retiring Project Online? Project Online was built on older architecture, which limits innovation and integration with today’s collaborative work tools. Microsoft is shifting its focus to cloud-first, AI-driven solutions that deliver: Better collaboration across Microsoft 365 AI-powered insights with Microsoft 365 Copilot Scalable, modern project management for all team sizes. Key Retirement Dates October 1, 2025 – End of sale for new Project Online-only SKUs. September 30, 2026 – Project Online will be fully retired and inaccessible. Important : This does not affect Project desktop, Project Server Subscription Edition, or Planner. What Happens After Retirement? Your Project Online ...

Recently, a business user reached out to me with an interesting issue: He was unable to create a new library because SharePoint indicated that the library already existed. However, when he checked the Site Contents, the library was nowhere to be found. If you’ve faced a similar problem, here are a few possible solutions to make the hidden library visible again: 1. Check Permissions Ensure that you (and other users) have at least Read or Contribute access to the library. Sometimes the library exists but remains hidden due to restricted permissions. 2. Verify Navigation Settings Go to Library Settings → Navigation . Check if the library is set to appear in the left-hand navigation/quick launch . If not, enable it so the library becomes visible.  3. Confirm Library View The default view may be filtered or misconfigured , hiding all items. Switch to All Documents view or create a new one to confirm visibility.  4. Check Site Contents From the site home...

Microsoft announced that the New Analysis Engine is now generally available (GA)! This major milestone is all thanks to the feedback from our early adopters and app makers during the experimental and preview stages. Performance Boost The New Analysis Engine optimizes how we approach continuous analysis of app elements and their interactions in Studio. This ensures faster startup when loading your app and quicker updates while you edit. The new analysis algorithm scales linearly with app size, eliminating complex cases that previously caused performance issues. Complex Canvas apps that previously took minutes to load should now load much faster. Accuracy The New Analysis Engine is not only faster but also more accurate. It enables precise determination of variable and collection types and reliably identifies the columns used in your app, addressing several long-standing bugs and enhancing Data Source call performance in published apps. It also facilitated the development of the ...

In our office, the people need to be logged into the corporate account and a business (client) for communication in client's network but we can run only 1 instance of MS Teams by default. There is a user voice on the same rum multiple instances on a machine.  Follow the below listed steps to setup multiple instances on a single machine Open any text editor, you can use default notepad app of your windows pc Copy the below code to your editor @ECHO OFF SET MSTEAMS_PROFILE=%~n0 ECHO - Using profile "%MSTEAMS_PROFILE%" SET "OLD_USERPROFILE=%USERPROFILE%" SET "USERPROFILE=%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Teams\CustomProfiles\%MSTEAMS_PROFILE%"   ECHO - Launching MS Teams with profile %MSTEAMS_PROFILE% cd "%OLD_USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams" "%OLD_USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams\Update.exe" --processStart "Teams.exe" Save the above file on your machine with extension ".bat" or with ".cmd" Onc...

Microsoft has launched a new update on 11 March 2022 that is helpful for Teams Administrators of a Tenant. With this update Teams Administrators will get a list of all Teams for a user is a member of in the Teams admin center. Earlier there was no way from Teams Admin center and forced to use PowerShell Script for this. Get-Team -User vivek.jagga @ sharepointexcellence.com To view the list of Teams for a user is a member of in Teams Admin Center, execute the below steps  Go to Teams Admin Center Click to Users --> Manage Users Select a user for that you wish to retrieve the list of Teams for which the user is member. This will open the User Detail page Now click to the Teams tab. System will show to view all the teams that the user is a part of For more details, go through Microsoft roadmap feature ID 87969 and Message Center  MC332869

Introduction SharePoint administrators always want to know which user is accessing any site or site collection extensively and which user has access to the site but not using it. The other site details required are related to traffic, access, edit, etc. The user's behavior changes as per the nature of the site and their working department like project team site, department site, and managerial workspace. Fortunately, Microsoft 365 has given multiple methods to generate or view various reports related to SharePoint usage. We will check all the methods one by one and see how they provide the required results. Several options are available at different parts in SharePoint Site or Admin Center where the Administrator can check status or create reports. Method-1. Check Site Usage in Site Contents Page. The Site contents page shows the analytics data like their unique visitors, total site visits, average time spent by the user, etc. The report can be generated for multiple days like 7, 3...

Microsoft is focusing on collaboration and MS Teams is most popular now a days. We can update settings / profile from MS Teams and other Office 365 documents. Sometimes we may faced issue related to cache, it means that we are updating something and its not working on our local machine only. Same situation was with me, user had changed his name and its available correctly for other team member but on his local machine its old one even in all Office 365 clients (MS Word, Excel, etc.). Manually tried to clean up some files but its not working. So drafted a PS script that worked.  Sharing that PS snippet with you all so that you can also save your time. PowerShell script at GitHub  Clean MS Teams Cache $VerbosePreference = "Continue" # Force Close any Teams Process Get-Process -Name "Teams" | Stop-Process -Force # Get Microsoft Teams Paths $TeamsRemovePath = @() $TeamsRemovePath += Join-Path -Path ([Environment]::GetFolderPath('ApplicationData')) -ChildPath (...