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Because everything covered in this book involves Office 365, a cloud-based and subscription-based service, you'll need a constant internet connection and an Office 365 subscription. In most cases, an E3 or E5 subscription will be sufficient, and recipes that require add-ons will specify that.

If you have a subscription through your organization, you may be able to perform some of these recipes if you've been granted the proper administrative role for the recipe(s) you wish to perform. If you're unable to obtain proper permissions and just want to practice the recipes, you can get a personal trial of Microsoft 365 at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/try. You can also get a Microsoft 365 tenant pre-populated with users and content specifically intended for development and testing at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program.

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