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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

Summary

We learned how sites are a key part of SharePoint’s information architecture. When implementing intranet portals, it’s important to design how many sites and hub sites are needed, how site associations are configured, and whether there is a need to group hub sites together (always keeping clarity in mind). We later saw why the role of the SharePoint home site and other organizations’ news sources need to be defined. Each site needs an owner; responsibility can be centralized for specific people or distributed, but it’s important that owners understand their responsibilities.

In the last part, we observed how the sites and channel sites that are connected to Microsoft Teams channels are commonly accessed from the Files tab in Teams, and users might not use SharePoint’s user experience at all when using Teams’ teams. Permissions for these sites are managed using team owners, members, and guests.

Administrators have a key role in...