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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

PnP PowerShell

PnP PowerShell should be found in every SharePoint Online administrator toolbox.

It’s not just a SharePoint administrator tool; PnP PowerShell also supports configuring commands to manage a Microsoft 365 tenant, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Planner, and more. The module includes close to 700 cmdlets and can be used on Windows, Linux, and MacOS platforms. Besides maintenance and configuration tasks, PnP PowerShell can be used for various kinds of automation that are run on Azure, a Docker container, or other platforms. Detailed documentation of the PnP PowerShell can be found at https://pnp.github.io/powershell/index.html.

Installing PnP PowerShell

For installing PnP PowerShell, PowerShell version 7.2 is needed. The legacy version of PnP PowerShell also works on Windows PowerShell, but it’s not maintained actively anymore, so it’s not recommended.

The easiest way to install PnP PowerShell is from the PowerShell Gallery:

Install-Module...