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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

SharePoint Online in a Nutshell

Microsoft SharePoint Online is a content and collaboration platform for intranets, document management repositories, teamwork, and collaboration across organizations. It’s one of the core technologies in Microsoft 365, supplying rich experiences to other services; nowadays, examples are file management capabilities on the Microsoft Teams Files tab and storage for content, such as news articles and videos, to different Microsoft Viva Suite services. Versatile security, access management capabilities, and integration to Microsoft Entra ID (ME-ID) ensure the data is available for the correct audiences and kept inside of managed borders. Governance policies at different levels ensure that compliance requirements can be met, data is retained for the required period of time, and outdated content is automatically cleaned up.

SharePoint Online is also an application platform enabling the management and publishing of apps extending SharePoint, Teams...