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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak, Nate Chamberlain, Scott Brewster
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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak, Nate Chamberlain, Scott Brewster

Overview of this book

Microsoft 365 offers tools for content management, communication, process automation, and report creation. Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook maximizes workplace collaboration and productivity using SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive, Delve, M365 Search, Copilot, Power Platform, Viva, Planner, and Microsoft Forms. You will find thoroughly updated recipes for SharePoint Online, covering sites, lists, libraries, pages, web parts, and learn SharePoint Framework (SPFx) basics for building solutions. You will explore many Microsoft Teams recipes to prepare it to be your organization’s central collaboration hub. You will be able to unlock Power Platform potential with recipes for Power Apps to enable low-code/no-code app development and learn to automate tasks with Power Automate and Power Automate Desktop. The book teaches you data visualization with Power BI, and chatbot creation with Power Virtual Agents (Copilot Studio). Finally, you will also learn about the cutting-edge Copilot and Gen AI functionality in Microsoft 365 and Power Platform. By the end, you will be equipped with skills to effectively use Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, and the Power Platform. Whether it's enhancing career prospects or improving business operations, this book is a perfect companion on your journey through the Microsoft Office 365 suite.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Index

Technical requirements

As I mentioned previously, this is a developer-focused chapter. This means that we will have to get our development environment ready before we proceed.

For our exercise, we will use the following technology stack:

Figure 1: SPFx programming technology stack

Let's look at the specific requirements for each technology stack.

Node.js

Node.js will be our JavaScript runtime in the environment in which we compile the custom code. You can download Node.js from the official site at https://nodejs.org.

There might be a couple of options to choose from, as shown in the following screenshot:

I recommend downloading LTS for Windows or Mac because the Current version might contain some features that are not supported by SPFx. Even when choosing LTS, you should check that the version is supported by SPFx by going to https://m365book.page.link/SPFx-setup.

Download the 32-bit or 64-bit .msi version depending on your processor configuration and install it.

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