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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

Over 20 years of SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint is already an over-20-year-old product. SharePoint started at the end of the 1990s as codename Tahoe, and the first versions under the SharePoint brand were released in 2001, called SharePoint Portal Server 2001 and SharePoint Team Services. The next releases followed the update cadence of Microsoft Office:

  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 in 2003
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 in 2007
  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 in 2010
  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 in 2013
  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 in 2016
  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019 in 2019
  • Microsoft SharePoint Server Subscription Edition in 2021

These SharePoint Server versions were and are hosted in the customer’s data center and are quite often referred to as on-premises SharePoint in discussions.

The cloud journey of SharePoint started in 2008 when SharePoint Online was released as a part of the...