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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
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Part 1:Exploring SharePoint Online
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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

Microsoft Graph: an API for Microsoft Cloud service resources

Microsoft Graph supplies a unified model for accessing data within Microsoft 365 services (such as SharePoint, Teams, and Mail), Enterprise Mobility + Security services (such as Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Intune), and Windows services (such as device and notifications, and Dynamics 365 Business Central). Microsoft Graph’s API is constantly updating, supplying new capabilities and services regularly.

Microsoft Graph can be used to build experiences around user context – for example, by supplying insights about recently updated documents, new colleagues, or upcoming events. When working in a user’s context, using so-called delegated access, the access to data and insights is based on the user’s permissions set on different services.

An application can also use its own identity to access data and insights, called app-only access. The application can just have read access to certain services...