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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)

Sharing a report/dashboard/dataset

Microsoft 365 is a collaboration platform. The ability of users to build and share reports is a key factor. The Power BI service lets you share the charts and dashboards with your colleagues in several ways.

The Dashboard feature is only available in the Power BI service. Itis a non-interactive collection of visuals pinned from one or more existing reports. If you click on a report pinned into the dashboard, the Power BI service takes you to the individual report, which provides a richer and more interactive experience.

Getting ready

In order to share a report, you need to first publish it to your Microsoft 365 tenant. While Power BI Desktop is free, you need a Power BI license to share your report with your colleagues. If you have a Power BI Pro license, you should be able to publish your report to Microsoft 365:

You can publish the report to your Microsoft 365 workspace or to a workspace...