Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online Cookbook: A complete guide to Microsoft Office 365 apps including SharePoint, Power Platform, Copilot and more

by Gaurav Mahajan, Sudeep Ghatak, Nate Chamberlain

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

642 pages, Paperback

Published February 29, 2024

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[Dimitri · Rating 5 out of 5]

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📕 Why (Not) to read this book (Target Audience)

Practical book that provides different how to guides. Do not expect a deep dive, in some topics it only scratches the surface.

👀 How this book changed my daily live (Takeaways)

Microsoft has several apps that offer communication channels for different engagement levels, such as the following:
• Outlook: For formal communication
• Teams: For instant communication
• Engage: For communication between interest groups

⁉ Spoiler Alerts (Highlights)

Microsoft Teams is your hub for collaboration in Microsoft 365. While it provides a chat-based workspace that lets you have instant threaded communication, video chats, and meetings with your peers, it also provides a collaboration space to work together and share information. Teams’ deep integration with SharePoint and Microsoft 365 groups can change the way your team members communicate, collaborate, and interact with others.