Problems accessing Project Online

Recently we got 5 licenses of Project OnLine, licenses were allocated to two counts of administration of Office365, and another to a regular user account. The two accounts administration of Office365 enter correctly at the Online Project, but the third has
not.
I tried several options without success.
Any suggestions?

Armando,
In addition to giving the license to the users, the administrator should also "Share" the PWA site with the user. (the option is on the top right corner of the PWA home page)
Cheers,
Prasanna Adavi, Project MVP
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My question is related to project working and using Project Online to track projects.
* Can I use a single "Project Online with Project Pro for Office 365" subscription for tracking and creating reports about all project sites and their tasks in Office 365?
Meaning, if we have multiple projects designed in Project Pro and then uploaded directly to Office 365, can we gather the task, resource and progress information from these projects (created directly to Office 365) in a Project Online overview? One person
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Helen,
Your question is slightly confusing, so let me try and say it this way:
1) Your PMs (multiple) will use Project Pro, to create and publish plans to Project Online
2) You will have one user who will 'administer' Project Online and create reports etc.,
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I got some of the external users to work. I am still trying to sort it out, but thought I will give you what I found.
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