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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

Creating a new team

Microsoft Teams lets team members achieve more together when all their chats, meetings, files, and apps reside in a single workspace. Creating a team does a lot in the background. It provisions a SharePoint site for you, along with a Microsoft 365 group for the team. Teams lets you connect with other services within Microsoft 365, as well as with third-party apps (via connectors). We shall learn more about connectors in the recipe titled Adding a connector.

In this recipe, we will learn how to create a new team.

Getting ready

You should be able to create a new team as long as your organization has assigned you a valid Teams license and has enabled Team creation.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create a new team:

  1. Click on the Join or create a team option:

    Figure 8.19: Creating a Team
  2. Clicking Join or create a team actually takes you to the screen where you can join one of the existing teams, join a team with a code, search for an existing team to join, or...