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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

Using community solutions in SharePoint Online

The Microsoft 365 and Power Platform Community supply lots of samples and solutions, helpful articles, and tools to help developers and organizations gain more value from their environments. The community runs dozens of initiatives centered around different technologies. It’s led by Microsoft Engineering but involves hundreds of professionals around the globe who are eager to share their knowledge and examples.

The community also hosts several community calls on different topics where everyone can join in. Calls can be joined easily using Microsoft Teams and are open to everyone.

All community examples, tools, and solutions can be used in your organization’s SharePoint Online environment to extend the user experience, build automation, and maintain the environment.

I present three community initiatives—PnP PowerShell, PnP Site Templates, and PnP Modern Search—which I use as part of my daily work with...