Project Online
Microsoft retired Project Online on 30 September 2026. Project Web App, Project Center, Resource Center, timesheets, reporting feeds and Project Online flows stopped. Microsoft says you can no longer access your projects or their data in the service. It has published no read-only period, retention period or deletion date.
Last checked against Microsoft’s pages: 9 October 2026. Every fact below links to its source.
Microsoft lists these Project Online experiences as no longer working after the retirement.
| Area | What stopped |
|---|---|
| Project Web App | PWA Home, Project Center, Project Detail Pages, PWA settings and administration pages |
| Planning | Project scheduling and publishing |
| People and time | Resource Center, resource management, timesheets, time and task management |
| Portfolio | Portfolio analysis |
| Reporting and APIs | REST, CSOM, JSOM, ProjectData and the OData reporting feeds. Reports and scheduled refreshes that use them fail. |
| Automation | Power Automate flows that use Project Online triggers or actions |
Source: Microsoft Learn, Prepare for Project Online retirement.
| Product | Status |
|---|---|
| Project desktop | Does not retire with Project Online and works as a standalone product. It can no longer connect to Project Online. |
| Project 2021 desktop | Support ends on 13 October 2026. |
| Project 2024 desktop | Supported until 9 October 2029. |
| Planner | Not affected. Planner and Project Plan 3 includes Planner premium features and Project desktop. |
| Project Server Subscription Edition | In support. Earliest possible end of support: 31 December 2031. |
| Project Server 2016 and 2019 | Support ended on 14 July 2026. |
| Project Online Essentials | Reached end of life on 1 October 2026. |
“After Project Online is retired in September 2026, you will no longer be able to access your projects or any associated data within the service.” Microsoft’s Planner blog, repeated in the final Message Center notice of 24 September 2026.
The retirement happened automatically, with no admin action. For help after the date, Microsoft’s blog says to contact your Microsoft account team.
Any page that gives you a date for these is guessing. On 2 October 2026, some users reported that their instance was unavailable on 1 October and reachable again the next day. That is a user report. Microsoft has not confirmed it.
Microsoft’s export script needs a Project Online license and Project desktop connected to your Project Online instance. Once the service is gone, it cannot run. Save each plan from Project desktop as an .mpp file and as XML while you still can.
Teamhood is project management software with Kanban, Gantt and timesheets, for teams that run many projects with the same people. The Gantt has dependencies, critical path and baselines. Each person’s working hours and time off count across every project.
It imports plans from MS Project XML. It does not replace PWA governance such as demand intake, stage gates or portfolio analysis. If you need that, Project Server Subscription Edition is Microsoft’s answer.
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| Source | Used for |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Learn: Prepare for Project Online retirement | What stops, reporting and flows, Project desktop |
| Microsoft Planner Blog: Project Online is retiring | Data access, automatic retirement, alternatives |
| Microsoft Lifecycle: Project Online | Retirement date |
| Microsoft Lifecycle: Project 2021, Project 2024 | Desktop support dates |
| Microsoft Lifecycle: additional support for server products | Project Server Subscription Edition, 2031 |
| Microsoft Lifecycle: Project Server 2019 | End of support, 14 July 2026 |
| Microsoft Learn: Export user data from Project Online | Export script requirements |
| Microsoft 365 Message Center, MC1478955 and MC1466302 | Final notice (24 September 2026), Essentials end of life |
Change log: 9 October 2026, page published. We re-check Microsoft’s pages and update this page when they change.