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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)

Adding members to a group

You can add members while creating a group or after the group is created. The members will gain access to all the group resources as soon as they are added. At times, you might need to invite members from outside your organization. Say you are organizing the staff Christmas party and you need to get input from a food vendor; you can invite them to the "Christmas Party" group so that they can participate in the conversations in the group. To add new members to the group, follow the instructions in this recipe.

Getting ready

If you are a group owner, you can add additional members to the group. You can also invite people from outside your organization (if your organization permits this).

How to do it...

You can add new members to the group while you are creating a new group. If the group has already been created, take the following steps:

  1. Select the group and click on the number of members, as...