Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook: An All-In-One Guide to Microsoft 365 Workloads, Including Sharepoint, Microsoft Teams, Power Platform, and More

Gaurav Mahajan & Sudeep Ghatak & Nate Chamberlain & Scott Brewster

Language: English

Published: Feb 28, 2024

Description:

With over 100 practical recipes that offer extensive coverage of Microsoft 365, learn how to enhance collaboration, implement RPA, and develop business intelligence for your organization –with an accompanying eBook for extra coverage.

Key Features

  • Enhanced focus on core topics for SharePoint Online, Power Platform, and Microsoft Teams
  • Collaborate with your team and external users effectively using MS Teams
  • Create low-code solutions such as bots, forms, dashboards, and workflows using the Power Platform.

Book Description

Microsoft 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 enabling workspace collaboration and productivity using Microsoft SharePoint Online, Teams, and the Power Platform. Featuring an additional online resource introducing popular Microsoft apps such as To Do, Viva Insights, and Viva Learning.

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 step-by-step, making 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

  • Discover the new employee experience application, Microsoft Viva
  • Use Microsoft Forms to create polls, surveys, tests, and quizzes
  • Encounter 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
  • Build business solutions with extra coverage of the Power Platform
  • Enhance capabilities in Teams using the SharePoint Framework (SPFx)

Who This Book Is For

This book is for business professionals, IT administrators, enterprise developers and architects, and anyone who is new to 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.

Table of Contents

  1. Overview of Microsoft 365
  2. Introduction to SharePoint Online
  3. Working with Modern Sites in SharePoint Online
  4. Working with Lists in SharePoint Online
  5. Working with document libraries in SharePoint Online
  6. OneDrive for Business
  7. Search in Microsoft 365
  8. Microsoft Teams
  9. Power Automate
  10. Desktop Flows
  11. PowerApps
  12. Power BI
  13. Microsoft Forms
  14. Appendix
  15. Bonus content - supplement Ch 1: Term Store and Content Types in SharePoint Online
  16. Bonus content - supplement chapter Ch 2: Office Delve
  17. Bonus content - supplement chapter Ch 3: Microsoft 365 Groups
  18. Bonus content - supplement chapter Ch 4: Yammer - The Enterprise Social Network
  19. Bonus content - supplement chapter Ch 5: Power Virtual Agents

(N.B. Additional chapters to be confirmed upon publication)