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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)

Project Cortex

Project Cortex is a new member that has joined the Microsoft 365 family that uses Microsoft Search and Microsoft Graph to surface contextual information about a specific keyword via topic cards. Imagine that you receive a work email that has a reference to Project ABC (which might be a project running in the company). Project Cortex will convert that word into a hyperlink that displays additional information about what the project is, people involved with the project, and other supporting information.

This reduces the overhead of additional documentation. Project Cortex makes the first attempt at collating information from Microsoft 365 related to the term using artificial intelligence. The SMEs could then go and enrich the content on the pages if they want to. The possibilities it presents are endless. With a tool like Project Cortex, the time you need to onboard a new employee or person joining a new role is reduced. These are still early days for Project...