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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook

By : Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak
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Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook

By: Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak

Overview of this book

Microsoft Office 365 provides tools for managing organizational tasks like content management, communication, report creation, and business automation processes. With this book, you'll get to grips with popular apps from Microsoft, enabling workspace collaboration and productivity using Microsoft SharePoint Online, Teams, and the Power Platform. In addition to guiding you through the implementation of Microsoft 365 apps, this practical guide helps you to learn from a Microsoft consultant's extensive experience of working with the Microsoft business suite. This cookbook covers recipes for implementing SharePoint Online for various content management tasks. You'll learn how to create sites for your organization and enhance collaboration across the business and then see how you can boost productivity with apps such as Microsoft Teams, Power Platform, Planner, Delve, and M365 Groups. You'll find out how to use the Power Platform to make the most of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. Finally, the book focuses on the SharePoint framework, which helps you to build custom Teams and SharePoint solutions. By the end of the book, you will be ready to use Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online to enhance business productivity using a broad set of tools.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)

Performing an advanced search

Just like any other search engine, Microsoft Search supports advanced search queries. You can build these advanced queries by adding various operators and property filters to the search keywords. This recipe will show you how to do that.

For our scenario, let's say that, as a product design engineer, I am working on a design proposal for a new product. I remember that a similar proposal was presented by one of my colleagues, Irvin Sayers, in the not so recent past. I liked the proposal and would like to use it as a template for my presentation. In this recipe, we will see how I can use an advanced search to narrow down the results to quickly find this proposal.

Getting ready

You can access Microsoft Search from any workload in your Microsoft 365 tenant. You can also search from within the apps that are installed locally on your computer, as long as they are connected to the Microsoft 365 tenant. Search will only return...