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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

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is your hub for collaboration in Microsoft 365. While it provides a chat-based workspace that lets you have instant threaded communication, video chats, and meetings with your peers, it also provides a collaboration space to work together and share information. Teams’ deep integration with SharePoint and Microsoft 365 groups can change the way your team members communicate, collaborate, and interact with others. The collaboration experience is further enriched by the integration capabilities that Teams provides with other applications, such as Trello or GitHub.

Those of you who are familiar with Skype for Business (Microsoft’s instant communication application) might wonder what the difference is between Skype for Business and Teams. One of the key aspects of Teams is that, unlike Skype for Business, conversations within Teams are threaded around a specific topic. So, conversations always have a context. Besides conversations, Teams...