I know many HCSS customers are migrating to Office 365 which is a very cost effective way to get enterprise email service and all the Office Apps (except Project). Since HeavyBid can only export to Project installed on your own server or computer, not the current web based version offered by Microsoft you will have to do a workaround if you are trying to install Project on a computer with Office 365. At this time HCSS cannot directly export to the web version of Project. Here is the work around I found for an updated computer running Windows 10.

Please read all of the instructions before you try to install a standalone version of Project on your computer:

  1. Uninstall Microsoft 365

    You will have to have Project available for the new install.

  2. Uninstall all of your Microsoft 365 apps. Thankfully Microsoft bunches them all together into one program.
  3. Follow the install directions of Project 2016 BUT do not sign in with your office 365 account. Instead use a dummy free Microsoft account or hit “create a new account”. If you try to login and download Project with your office 365 account, Microsoft will know that you are did not buy the web based version from them and will not allow you access to the program.
  4. Put in the code and verify the Project license by phone.
  5. Make sure Project works. Play around with it.
  6. Install office 365. (make sure you use the same 32/64 bit version you used to download Project). Sign in with your Office 365 account.
  7. Test all of the programs.
  8. Export to Project from HCSS HeavyBid.

*This method means that the user is using a different sign in on Project than with their office 365 apps.

*I am not an IT guy by any means and probably shouldn’t be giving advice about computers, but this was the only work around I could come up with. The worse that can happen is that you have to uninstall Project and reinstall all of your office 365 apps and you lose the few bucks you payed for Project.

I hope this helps. Running Microsoft Project is important to a lot of HeavyBid users.