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Microsoft 365 Fundamentals Guide

By : Gustavo Moraes, Douglas Romao
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Microsoft 365 Fundamentals Guide

By: Gustavo Moraes, Douglas Romao

Overview of this book

With its extensive set of tools and features for improving productivity and collaboration, Microsoft 365 is being widely adopted by organizations worldwide. This book will help not only developers but also business people and those working with information to discover tips and tricks for making the most of the apps in the Microsoft 365 suite. The Microsoft 365 Fundamentals Guide is a compendium of best practices and tips to leverage M365 apps for effective collaboration and productivity. You'll find all that you need to work efficiently with the apps in the Microsoft 365 family in this complete, quick-start guide that takes you through the Microsoft 365 apps that you can use for your everyday activities. You'll learn how to boost your personal productivity with Microsoft Delve, MyAnalytics, Outlook, and OneNote. To enhance your communication and collaboration with teams, this book shows you how to make the best use of Microsoft OneDrive, Whiteboard, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams. You'll also be able to be on top of your tasks and your team's activities, automating routines, forms, and apps with Microsoft Planner, To-Do, Power Automate, Power Apps, and Microsoft Forms. By the end of this book, you'll have understood the purpose of each Microsoft 365 app, when and how to use it, and learned tips and tricks to achieve more with M365.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Adding an expiry time and passwords for links

The longer we spend immersed in the digital world, the more our security becomes unstable. With our cellphone pin, which is sometimes only a four-digit number, someone with malicious intent could access sensitive data and thereby wreak havoc.

The same happens with public links; several hacker mechanisms run daily trying to generate working links to capture files. This is one of the actions of ransomware. All companies that provide a cloud service, including Microsoft, work with mechanisms that protect your data and make it difficult for these malicious actors.

In OneDrive, we have some features that make file sharing safe. The first method is through the inclusion of passwords in shared links.

In the Sharing file settings section, we saw the advanced settings and the different options under them. Among these options, there are five that are meant to safeguard your documents and folders. So, in this section, we will take a detailed...