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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)

Following people and topics

Yammer generally displays posts from the groups you have subscribed to. However, you can follow specific people or topics instead of joining a group. For example, you might be interested in what Kim, the marketing manager, has to say; however, you might not want to join Kim's "Marketing" group because there will be posts that the marketing team publishes that are of no interest to you. When you follow someone on Yammer, messages that they post will show up in your feed on your home page under FOLLOWING.

You can also follow specific topics. Topics are created in Yammer with hashtags, such as #hrupdate. In the next section, we'll explain how you can follow people and topics.

Getting ready

You can follow anyone within your company and you can follow any topic that has been hash tagged.

How to do it...

To follow a person, do the following:

  1. Hover your cursor over the person&apos...