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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook - Second Edition

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

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

Scheduling a meeting

Microsoft Teams lets you organize team meetings or have one-off audio/video calls with your colleagues.

There are four meeting types that you can use with Teams based on the context:

  • Scheduled meetings: When you want to schedule meeting at a future date with an individual or colleagues.
  • Meet in a channel: when you need to hold an open meeting in your team, create a meeting in a channel.
  • Instant meetings: when you want to convert your ongoing conversation into a desktop sharing session
  • Teams live events: when you want to broadcast video and meeting content to a large online audience.

To schedule a meeting in Teams, follow the steps in the next section.

Getting ready

You do not need any special permission to schedule or join a team meeting.

How to do it...

You can set up the various meeting types in the following ways:

Scheduled meetings

  1. Select Meetings from the left-hand side pane.
  2. Click on + New meeting:

    Figure 8.42: Initiating New Meeting
  3. Provide the required...