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Customizing and Extending SharePoint Online

By : Matti Paukkonen
Book Image

Customizing and Extending SharePoint Online

By: Matti Paukkonen

Overview of this book

Explore the robust functionalities of SharePoint that ensure your business processes remain flexible and scalable. With its custom development features, SharePoint presents abundant opportunities to meet evolving needs, deliver personalized experiences, and seamlessly integrate across platforms. If you’re looking for practical guidance on developing custom SharePoint solutions, Customizing and Extending SharePoint Online is your essential companion. This book takes you through the different techniques for customizing SharePoint, harnessing its native capabilities, and extending them across other platforms. You’ll begin by organizing content with SharePoint sites and learning best practices for permission governance before learning how to create and manage pages and use web parts to create, aggregate, and format content. This SharePoint book also covers specialized use cases of the Viva Suite and delves into SharePoint automation with Power Automate while extending solutions with Power Apps. Toward the end, you’ll get to grips with designing personalized solutions with SharePoint Framework and Microsoft Graph. By the end of this book, you’ll be ready to deliver highly customized SharePoint solutions that align with your business objectives.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1:Exploring SharePoint Online
8
Part 2:Enhancing the SharePoint Content
14
Part 3:Automate and Extend SharePoint Experiences
19
Part 4:Create Your Own Customization using SharePoint Framework and Microsoft Graph

Bring SharePoint Content to Teams with Viva Connections

The use of Microsoft Teams for communication and collaboration has grown rapidly, reaching over 320 million monthly active users in 2023, and it has become the most important application for information workers. The Microsoft Viva suite, the new employee experience product line launched in 2021, brings capabilities for communications, goal setting, knowledge management, and learning, Viva Connections being one of these experiences. Viva Connections enables experiences in both Teams and SharePoint, which enables users to fluently access important content such as news, videos, links, and articles without leaving Teams. Viva Connections also brings relevant conversations from the Viva Engage social platform (previously known as Yammer) to the same context.

Viva Connections is a landing experience for accessing SharePoint content. It can be thought of as an intranet landing page. Viva Connections and the SharePoint home site experience...