Microsoft Project (“MS Project”) is a widely used planning tool, deeply embedded across many industries where professional project managers rely on its rich scheduling capabilities.
With Microsoft Project Online being retired in September 2026, organisations using MS Project face a dilemma: Project Online provided the cloud-based aggregation facility for all project plans, to support enterprise reporting, resource sharing and governance across projects. Without it, one is left with just a collection of disconnected project plans: they can be edited individually but they do not share their information of tasks, milestones, and resource demand with the enterprise.
Schedule Hub for MS Project addresses this need by offering a low-cost, easy to implement, cloud-native alternative to both Project Online and Project Server Subscription Edition (SE).
It provides a secure, governed repository for MS Project .mpp files in SharePoint Online, combined with automated extraction of schedule data into Dataverse (the database of the Power Platform). This creates a single, enterprise-grade dataset for reporting, governance, portfolio management, and future AI use cases.
Schedule Hub is designed for organisations that:
- Rely on MS Project Desktop for complex scheduling
- Require enterprise governance, reporting, and auditability
- Wish to avoid the cost and operational burden of on-premises Project Server
- Want to remain fully aligned with the Microsoft 365 and Power Platform roadmap, with the ability to join MS Project schedules to PPM solutions built with Power Apps or other platforms.