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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)
OneDrive for Business

OneDrive for Business is a cloud-based storage solution for your personal files. In a way similar to using a SharePoint document library to store and share files that your team is co-working on, OneDrive for Business lets you store and work on files that are private to you. It is your personal space for files that belong just to you and/or are not yet ready to be shared with a wider team. In that sense, your OneDrive area is like any other library on SharePoint Online. However, there are a few key differences between the two, which we will cover in later sections of this chapter, but for the most part, your OneDrive area is a simplified document library that you are the owner of and have full access to. You can add, update, and delete files or folders in your OneDrive area as you would in any other document library. You can then share these files with others in your organization as well as those external...