One of the biggest changes in Project Server 2016 is the installation process. One installation – Project Server and SharePoint Server This will be done as part of the upgrade process by running a SharePoint PowerShell cmdlet.
IT-Pros will need to know how to migrate their Project Server 2013 Resource Plans to use as Resource Engagements in Project Server 2016. Resource Managers can view all requests for resource through the new Resource Requests page and can use the capacity planning heat map to provide them with availability information on their resources.Project Managers can use the new Resource Plan view in Project Professional 2016 to create requests for resources.Resource Engagements provides you with the following: Resource Engagements are an evolution of the old Resource Plan feature in Project Web App and all of your existing Resource Plan data will be converted to engagements as part of the upgrade process. The new Resource Engagements capabilities in Project Server 2016 helps project managers and resource managers to align with each other on the specific amount of work and time periods for specific resources associated with a project. The new Project Server 2016 can be downloaded as a trial here – linkįurthermore, here are some of the other key features and updates to the platform: Resource Engagements This way important topics such as reliability, scalability and performance have been greatly improved. Regardless of the news around features, it is a great release as all the learnings from Microsoft running a cloud service, will benefit the on-prem 2016 users. For that reason, the now released Project Server 2016 is very familiar to what has been available in the cloud since late summer 2015……yes, that means I would highly recommend Project Online to 90% of all users I know!
With the constant updating of the Project Online cloud service, on premise users have to wait a bit more for update cycles. However, this time it is different as I have already tried them all as a user of Project Online. Normally, I would be extremely interested in learning and playing around with the new features.