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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)

Grouping documents through boards

As mentioned earlier in this chapter, Delve uses Office Graph to surface content for you from all over Microsoft 365. Boards in Delve help you to better organize related content and share it with others in your organization.

This recipe will show you how to create a board in Delve and thus share related content from that board with others. For our scenario, we will create a new board to organize the marketing campaigns within our organization.

Getting ready

The only requirement for you to be able to create boards is that your organization should have enabled Delve for you.

How to do it...

To create a board in Delve, follow these steps:

  1. Browse to your Delve profile page or the Delve home page to view a list of relevant documents.
  2. Click on the manage boards icon for the document that you would like to add to the board, as shown in the following screenshot:

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