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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

Managing sites in the SharePoint Admin Center

Users with a SharePoint Administrator Azure Active Directory role or higher can manage sites in the SharePoint Admin Center. The Admin Center can be found using the direct URL https://your-tenant-admin.sharepoint.com or navigation using the Office app launcher in the top left corner.

Active and deleted sites

On the active sites list, administrators can manage all sites in the tenant and see basic information, including the site’s name, URL, when the site was created (and by whom), site template, last activity, and statistics (such as file views, page views and visits, and the number of files). Users with a SharePoint Administrator role can see all the sites but, by default, cannot access the content of the site:

Figure 2.15 – Active sites list on SharePoint Admin Center

Figure 2.15 – Active sites list on SharePoint Admin Center

On the management pane, which opens on the right when a site is selected, administrators can see the basic permissions...