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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

Summary

In this chapter, you’ve learned how to install or launch Power Automate Desktop for the first time. Power Automate Desktop is where you’ll create and manage your desktop flows, and you may install it on your individual/personal machine as well as unattended virtual desktops.

In the later two recipes, we covered how to create an attended (supervised) desktop flow and how to trigger it via cloud flow to give you more options than starting it from the desktop app. Remember that attended desktop flows are initiated and supervised by a human and can sometimes require interaction. Unattended desktop flows run in the background, fully automated, and typically on an unattended virtual desktop utilizing a service account for authentication to relevant resources and services. We can, however, combine an attended desktop flow with cloud triggers (manual, automated, or scheduled) to maximize the potential of being able to utilize these flows at optimal times as long as the machine...