▶Book Description
Microsoft 365 in an integrated suite that provides intelligent tools for managing everyday organizational tasks like content management, communication, creating reports, and automating business processes. With this book, you'll get to grips with popular apps from Microsoft, with a focus on enabling workspace collaboration and productivity using Microsoft SharePoint Online, Teams, and the Power Platform to name a few.
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. Starting with a quick overview of the M365 ecosystem, the book 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. Using a step-by-step approach, you'll also find out how to use the Power Platform efficiently, making the most of Microsoft PowerApps, Power Automate, PowerBI, 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'll be equipped with the skills required to set up Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online and be ready to enhance business productivity using a variety of tools.
▶What You Will Learn
- Get to grips with a wide range of apps and cloud services in Microsoft 365
- Discover ways 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 meet, chat, and collaborate with colleagues or external users
▶Key Features
- Gain a complete overview of popular Microsoft 365 services using practical recipes and expert insights
- Collaborate with your team and external users effectively using SharePoint and Teams
- Create no-code and low-code solutions, such as bots, forms, dashboards, and workflows, using the Power platform
▶Who This Book Is For
This book is for business professionals, IT administrators, enterprise developers and architects, and anyone who wants to get to grips with using M365 for effective implementation of Microsoft apps. Prior experience with Office 365 and SharePoint will assist with understanding the recipes effortlessly.
▶What this book covers
- Chapter 1, Overview of Microsoft 365, provides an overview of Microsoft 365.
- Chapter 2, Introduction to SharePoint Online, provides an introduction to various aspects of working with SharePoint Online in general.
- Chapter 3, Working with Modern Sites in SharePoint Online, explores sites in SharePoint in greater detail.
- Chapter 4, Working with Lists and Libraries in SharePoint Online, dives deep into content management in SharePoint.
- Chapter 5, Document Management in SharePoint Online, explains how to manage documents and files in SharePoint.
- Chapter 6, Term Store and Content Types in SharePoint Online, discusses the workings of taxonomy in SharePoint.
- Chapter 7, OneDrive for Business, covers various aspects of OneDrive and its sync client.
- Chapter 8, Search in Microsoft 365, shows you how to search for content across Microsoft 365 in the optimal way.
- Chapter 9, Office Delve, shows how to discover and view content focused on you, your work, and the people you work with.
- Chapter 10, Microsoft 365 Groups, describes how to work with Microsoft 365 groups.
- Chapter 11, Microsoft Teams, explains how to make calls, set up meetings, and collaborate using Teams.
- Chapter 12, Yammer – The Enterprise Social Network, explains how to communicate within interest groups.
- Chapter 13, Power Automate (Microsoft Flow), demonstrates how to automate business processes.
- Chapter 14, Power Apps, provides steps to build online forms by connecting to various data sources.
- Chapter 15, Power BI, demonstrates ways to visualize and analyze information.
- Chapter 16, Power Virtual Agents, describes how you can build powerful chatbots.
- Chapter 17, Planner, shows how to build and manage a task board.
- Chapter 18, Custom Development – SharePoint Framework, provides an overview of custom development in SharePoint and Teams.
- Chapter 19, Microsoft 365 on Mobile, covers the mobile apps available for Microsoft 365 applications.
