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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)
Office Delve

Delve is the workload of Microsoft 365, which lets users easily view all their relevant content in one place. Delve will not only show you your content but also content that your colleagues have been working on and have shared with you. This content includes OneDrive for Business documents, SharePoint Online documents, and documents that were shared with you through email attachments. Delve automatically surfaces all this content without even needing for the users to search for it.

Delve is powered by Microsoft Graph, the same AI-based tool that powers Microsoft Search.

You can read more about Microsoft Graph in the section on Office development frameworks in the Appendix

Office Graph plays three critical roles in Delve in particular and Microsoft 365 in general:

  • First, it monitors your interaction with content and people across multiple Microsoft 365 workloads, such as...