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1ort ends)",icon:T,iconColor:"bg-amber-100 text-amber-700",whatHappens:"SharePoint Server 2016 reaches end of extended support. Security updates stop, and customers running PWA on top of SharePoint 2016 on-premises (the original Project Server / Project Online substrate) lose Microsoft's patching commitment. The same date is also Project Server 2019's extended-support end, so the on-premises Microsoft PM stack effectively ends in one operations window.",whoAffected:"Organisations with on-premises SharePoint 2016 hosting Project Server. This is a smaller cohort than the cloud Project Online population but typically includes the most regulated PMOs (sovereignty + air-gap requirements).",paths:"Either upgrade to SharePoint Server Subscription Edition (the supported on-prem path) and continue running Project Server SE on top of it, or migrate off Microsoft's PM line entirely. Both paths require the same data export discipline.",pillarHref:"/migration/export-project-online-data",pillarLabel:"How to export Project Online / Project Server data"},{slug:"project-server-2019",product:"Microsoft Project Server 2019",date:"2026-07-14",dateLabel:"July 14, 2026 (extended support ends)",icon:A,iconColor:"bg-purple-100 text-purple-700",whatHappens:"On-premises Project Server 2019 reaches end of extended support. Microsoft stops shipping security updates, bug fixes, and compatibility patches. No Project Server 2026 or 2029 successor has been announced, the on-premises Project Server product line ends with the 2019 release. The date lines up with SharePoint Server 2016 EOL because Project Server 2019 runs on top of it, the two products effectively share a lifecycle.",whoAffected:"Government, defence, healthcare, financial-services PMOs running Project Server 2019 on-premises for data-residency or sovereignty reasons. Combined with the cloud Project Online retirement two-and-a-half months later, July 14 is when the on-premises Microsoft PM stack runs out of vendor support.",paths:"Microsoft's recommended upgrade is to Project Server Subscription Edition (SE), the supported subscription-licensed on-prem successor, or to Project 2024 LTSC Professional / Project 2024 Professional for single-user (non-PWA) scenarios. For sovereignty-required workloads that can't move to Microsoft's cloud, a self-hosted third-party PM platform is the alternative, Onplana ships a self-hosted option on Enterprise+ plans.",pillarHref:"/project-server-2019-end-of-life",pillarLabel:"Project Server 2019 EOL: Full Migration Guide"}],h=[{q:"What's the biggest Microsoft retirement affecting PMOs in 2026?",a:"Microsoft Project Online, retiring September 30, 2026. Every other 2026 retirement in the PMO space is secondary by impact. Project Online has the largest installed base, the most-coupled downstream systems (Power BI dashboards, Power Automate flows, custom .NET integrations), and the fewest like-for-like replacements. The complete migration guide breaks the Project Online deadline down by milestone."},{q:"Will Microsoft extend the Project Online deadline?",a:"No. Microsoft has stated publicly and repeatedly that the September 30, 2026 retirement date will not be extended. Every signal points the same direction: Microsoft has already announced the successor product (Planner Premium), the engineering organisation is allocated to it, and there's no business case for sustaining the legacy stack past the announced date. Plan as though the deadline is firm."},{q:"Is Planner Premium a real replacement for Project Online?",a:"For light task management with small teams, yes. For PMO-grade work (multi-project portfolios, enterprise resource pools, costed timesheets, formal governance, deep custom-field engines) Planner Premium is materially weaker than Project Online was. The platform-by-platform comparison covers the specific gaps. PMOs that ran Project Online in earnest typically need a peer-class platform like Onplana, not a step-down."},{q:"How early should we start the Project Online migration?",a:"Two answers, because two different things are on the clock. The EXPORT is the part that stops being possible: when Project Online goes, the PWA sites and the OData feed go with it, and nothing recovers data you did not take out. Our export guide puts the bulk path at four to eight hours for a 200-project tenant, plus a couple of days to inventory what you have and up to a week to validate and re-export anything that came back wrong. That last part needs the service still running, which is what makes it the urgent half, and it is worth doing before you have chosen a destination. The MIGRATION is the unhurried one

1: a .mpp or MSPDI file you already hold imports with its dependencies, custom fields, baselines and costs whenever you are ready. Budget six to ten weeks of focused effort for a 50 to 200 project portfolio, or three to four months for a larger or multi-PWA deployment, and run it from the files rather than against a deadline. The 90-day plan covers the typical shape."},{q:"What happens to our Power BI dashboards built against Project Online?",a:"They break at retirement. Power BI dashboards that read the Project Online OData feed will return errors the moment the feed goes offline; semantic models built on the Reporting Database stop refreshing. Plan a parallel rebuild against your target platform's API during the migration. A typical complex dashboard takes 3–5 days of senior BI analyst time; multiply by your dashboard count."},{q:"Can we keep using Project Server on-premises?",a:"For a few more weeks, yes, but the runway ends July 14, 2026. Project Server 2019 extended support ends that day, the SharePoint Server 2016 underlay it runs on ends the same day, and Microsoft has not announced a Project Server successor after 2019. Two paths from there: upgrade to Project Server Subscription Edition + SharePoint Server SE (Microsoft's supported on-prem path) and continue running Project Server, or migrate off Microsoft's PM line entirely. Regulated PMOs with sovereignty requirements increasingly evaluate self-hosted third-party platforms, Onplana ships a self-hosted Enterprise+ option."},{q:"What about Microsoft To Do, OneNote, and the other adjacent productivity tools?",a:"No major sunsets announced for To Do, OneNote, or Loop in 2026. The four primary-source-confirmed 2026 events are PM-stack-specific: SharePoint 2013 workflows (April 2), Project Server 2019 and SharePoint Server 2016 (both July 14), Project Online (September 30). The current evidence is that Microsoft is consolidating PM tooling under the Planner umbrella while leaving general productivity tools on their existing trajectories."},{q:"How do we know which Microsoft integrations our PMO depends on?",a:"Run a 30-day audit before the deadline: tap your Project Online audit log and record every external system that hits OData, the Project Server SOAP API, or the SharePoint REST API for the PWA site. Anything in that log is a downstream consumer that needs migration planning. The list is almost always longer than what your team thought existed: SharePoint Designer workflows from years ago, Excel workbooks with live OData feeds owned by finance, third-party connectors set up via Zapier."},{q:"Will Microsoft provide a managed export tool?",a:"No managed export service has been announced. The official path is for tenant admins to use existing OData APIs, PowerShell / CSOM, and SharePoint export tools to pull their own data before the cutoff. Treat the responsibility for export as yours, not Microsoft's. The data-export deadline guide covers the format-by-format export procedure."},{q:"Where should we start if we're just learning about this?",a:"Start with the complete migration guide (sections on timeline + 5 paths + costs). Then run the schedule health check on a representative project to see how clean your current data is. Then run the migration cost calculator for a 3-year budget number. 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