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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)
Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is your hub for collaboration in Microsoft 365. While it provides a chat-based workspace that lets you have instant threaded communication, video chats, and meetings with your peers, it also provides a collaboration space to work together and share information. Teams' deep integration with SharePoint and Microsoft 365 groups can change the way your team members communicate, collaborate, and interact with others. The collaboration experience is further enriched by the integration capabilities that Teams provides with other applications.

Those of you who are familiar with Skype for Business (Microsoft's instant communication application) might wonder what’s the difference between Skype for Business and Teams. One of the key aspects of Teams is that, unlike Skype for Business, conversations within Teams are threaded around a specific topic. So, conversations always have a...