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- A practical guide to the wealth of collaboration features available in Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)
- Helps users choose the tools that are right for them
- Supports overstretched IT departments that don't have the resources to train users
- Covers Teams, Power BI, Power Apps, SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft 365 Groups, Forms, Office ProPlus, Teams, Yammer, Planner, Stream, Forms, and Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Apps
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Getting Started
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Front Matter
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The Applications
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
While technologies for collaboration are more advanced than ever before, there also are more of them, making it all the more confusing. Beginning Microsoft 365 Collaboration Apps will help you make sense of what is available and provide prescriptive guidance to you and your team on how to be more productive.
This fully updated and expanded new edition contains lots of new content, screenshots and samples, and all new chapters on Power BI and Power Apps.
What You Will Learn
- Know the collaboration applications and features available across Microsoft 365, and how to choose the ones that are right for you and your colleagues in any given situation
- Understand the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model and how it enables users to be more effective and productive in remote situations
- Discover how multi-device usability and real-time cloud synchronization can help your team collaborate anytime, anywhere, across the apps
- Find out how Planner can help you manage projects and tasks, even without a project manager
- Explore Microsoft Power Automate and Power Apps to connect applications and services and create codeless applications and workflows
Who This Book is For
Microsoft 365 business users with a limited technical background. You should be familiar with the Microsoft Office suite ofproducts such as Word and Outlook, and work in a team environment. An active Microsoft 365 would be useful as well.
Authors and Affiliations
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Clayton, USA
Ralph Mercurio
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Morrisville, USA
Brian Merrill
About the authors
Ralph also has experience architecting and deploying solutions that leverage the best features of SharePoint/Microsoft 365 and provide real business value while solving user experience issues. He has seen many technology changes throughout the years and he discovered a passion for helping users find ways to leverage what they need to know to learn a new technology. With Microsoft 365, he has made it his goal to help users realize the potential of this powerful platform in order to get the most out of these ever-changing applications.
Brian Merrill is a Microsoft Certified Educator (MCE) and a Microsoft Certified trainer (MCT). He is currently the Educational Technology Analyst for one of the largest school districts in Pennsylvania. In that role he serves as the global administrator of the district’s Microsoft 365 environment, managing Microsoft Teams and SharePoint, and training faculty and staff on new technologies and systems. Brian is also adjunct faculty at the University of Harrisburg of Science and Technology, where he teaches courses in the Learning Technology and Media Studies program. Teaching courses on Learning Technologies and Solutions as well as Microsoft tools. Brian is a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert and a member of the Minecraft for Education Advisory Board.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beginning Microsoft 365 Collaboration Apps
Book Subtitle: Working in the Microsoft Cloud
Authors: Ralph Mercurio, Brian Merrill
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6936-7
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Ralph Mercurio and Brian Merrill 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-6935-0Published: 10 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-6936-7Published: 09 June 2021
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXII, 380
Number of Illustrations: 331 b/w illustrations
Topics: Microsoft and .NET, Operating Systems, Computer Applications, Computer Science, general, Systems and Data Security