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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

Community Solutions for Extending SharePoint Online

The open source community, called the Microsoft 365 Platform Community or M365 PnP community, maintains and shares documentation, samples, reusable controls, and other open source resources for SharePoint development. The community is coordinated by the Microsoft 365 engineering team and it has members and participants across the globe.

The community has developed great quality tools and solutions, which can be used without any payment or license. Anyone can start contributing their solutions, fix issues, or maintain documentation. The community takes care of the quality of the provided code.

PnP provisioning templates offer a flexible way to create, duplicate, and configure different resources of the Microsoft 365 tenant. They can be used, for example, for creating an onboarding list to SharePoint or being a complete solution for provisioning a complete SharePoint site.

PnP PowerShell is a cross-platform PowerShell module...