Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook

Over 100 actionable recipes to help you perform everyday tasks effectively in Microsoft 365

Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781838644505
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Entreprise Applications
• Index: Computer Science

With over 100 practical recipes that offer extensive coverage of Microsoft Office 365, learn how to enhance collaboration, implement robotic process automation, and develop business intelligence for your organizationKey Features• Gain a complete overview of popular Office 365 services using practical recipes and expert insights• Collaborate with your team effectively using SharePoint Online and MS Teams• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF formatBook DescriptionMicrosoft Office 365 provides tools for managing organizational tasks like content management, communication, report creation, and business automation processes. With this book, you'll get to grips with popular apps from Microsoft, enabling workspace collaboration and productivity using Microsoft SharePoint Online, Teams, and the Power Platform.In addition to guiding you through the implementation of Microsoft 365 apps, this practical guide helps you to learn from a Microsoft consultant's extensive experience of working with the Microsoft business suite. This cookbook covers recipes for implementing SharePoint Online for various content management tasks. You'll learn how to create sites for your organization and enhance collaboration across the business and then see how you can boost productivity with apps such as Microsoft Teams, Power Platform, Planner, Delve, and M365 Groups. You'll find out how to use the Power Platform to make the most of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents. Finally, the book focuses on the SharePoint framework, which helps you to build custom Teams and SharePoint solutions.By the end of the book, you will be ready to use Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online to enhance business productivity using a broad set of tools.What you will learn• Get to grips with a wide range of apps and cloud services in Microsoft 365• Discover how to use SharePoint Online to create and manage content• Store and share documents using SharePoint Online• Improve your search experience with Microsoft Search• Leverage the Power Platform to build business solutions with Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents• Enhance native capabilities in SharePoint and Teams using the SPFx framework• Use Microsoft Teams to collaborate with colleagues or external usersWho this book is forThis book is for business professionals, IT administrators, enterprise developers and architects, and anyone who wants to get to grips with using MS 365 for the effective implementation of Microsoft apps. Prior experience with Office 365 and SharePoint will assist with understanding the recipes effortlessly, but is not required.

Contributors

About the authors

Gaurav Mahajan is a technology evangelist with a focus on Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and AI. He has over 19 years of technical consulting experience and is passionate about helping organizations envision, build, and deploy solutions focused on solving practical problems. Gaurav has a Bachelor in Engineering, is Stanford certified in machine learning, and holds a PG Diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management. He is also a Microsoft Technology Solutions Professional (P-TSP) and holds various other Microsoft certifications. He occasionally blogs, and speaks at and organizes technical events, code camps, and conferences. He is a co-chair of the M365 & SharePoint Saturday, Pittsburgh (US) annual conference. In his free time, he likes to travel and spend time with his family.

I would like to thank my amazing colleagues at CEI for their cooperation, without which this book would not have been possible. My special thanks to Mike Snell and Brian Massey for their never-ending support and encouragement; and to Brandon Hammond and Zac Sloane for their valuable reviews.

Sudeep Ghatak has over 17 years of experience working with Microsoft technologies. ...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright and Credits
• Dedication
• About Packt
• Foreword by Sandy Ussia
• Foreword by Nate Chamberlain
• Contributors
• Preface
• Overview of Microsoft 365
• Introduction to SharePoint Online
• Working with Modern Sites in SharePoint Online
• Working with Lists and Libraries in SharePoint Online
• Document Management in SharePoint Online
• Term Store and Content Types in SharePoint Online
• OneDrive for Business
• Search in Microsoft 365
• Office Delve
• Microsoft 365 Groups
• Microsoft Teams
• Yammer - The Enterprise Social Network
• Power Automate (Microsoft Flow)
• Power Apps
• Power BI
• Power Virtual Agents
• Planner
• Custom Development - SharePoint Framework
• Microsoft 365 on Mobile
• Appendix
• Other Books You May Enjoy