Leverage SharePoint Online to enhance workflows and productivity with the help of practical examples from real-world scenarios
Key Features
- Discover strategies for maximizing the potential and effectiveness of SharePoint features
- Explore the synergy between Power Platform and Viva Suite when integrated with SharePoint Online
- Lean to use SharePoint Framework and extensions to deliver personalized user experiences
- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Book Description
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.
What you will learn
- Discover the diverse capabilities offered by SharePoint Online
- Organize and classify documents with Microsoft Syntex AI models
- Add automation capabilities using SharePoint’s REST APIs with Power Automate
- Enhance the user experience by connecting SharePoint data to Canvas apps
- Design custom solutions using SharePoint Framework and Microsoft Graph
- Understand how to use ready-made solutions from the developer community
Who this book is for
If you’re a SharePoint administrator or developer who wants to learn more about building modern experiences in SharePoint Online, this book is for you. Familiarity with SharePoint and Microsoft 365 is recommended. Specifically curated for roles overseeing collaboration solutions in Microsoft 365, this book offers comprehensive coverage of modern SharePoint Online capabilities and extensibility options.
Table of Contents
- SharePoint Online in a Nutshell
- Organize Content with SharePoint Sites
- Access Controls in SharePoint
- Lists and Libraries
- Describing Content with Site Columns and Content Types
- Creating Informative and Stunning Content with Modern SharePoint Pages
- Search in SharePoint
- Managed Metadata
- Understand Information with Microsoft Syntex
- Bring SharePoint Content to Teams with Viva Connections
- App Catalog and the SharePoint Store
- Automate SharePoint with Power Automate
- Extend SharePoint with Power Apps
- Site, List, and Document Templates
- Improving List Experiences with View Formatting
- Introduction to SharePoint Framework
- Access SharePoint Data using Microsoft Graph
- Web Parts and App Part Pages
- Extending User Experiences with SharePoint Framework Extensions
- Community Solutions for Extending SharePoint Online
Review
“As Dynamics 365 architects, we deal a lot with SharePoint, and the book provided clear, practical insights crucial for configuring sites, security, collaboration and data access.
The chapters on organizing content with SharePoint sites, understanding access controls, integrating SharePoint content with Teams via Viva Connections and accessing SharePoint data using Microsoft Graph, SharePoint automation with Power Automate and extending solutions with PowerApps stood out the most.
I highly recommend this book for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of SharePoint Online!”
Rachit Garg, Microsoft MVP, Principal Technical Architect at Velrada
About the Author
Matti Paukkonen is a modern work professional who has been working in the IT industry and Microsoft ecosystem for over 15 years and with Microsoft cloud solutions for over 10 years. He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the Microsoft 365 app and services award category. He is based in Kuopio, south central Finland and he holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in telecommunications technology from Savonia University of Applied Sciences.
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