Making SharePoint More POWERful

Home improvement stores have done big business over the years thanks to our desire to do more and more work by ourselves. My wife is an interior designer, so I’ve resigned myself to treating this as something of a hobby. Many of us choose to do it ourselves, however, to avoid the time and expense it may take for a professional to do the work instead. The Power Platform from Microsoft can be a powerful way to address business process automation and low-code development needs by adopting the DIY, self-service mindset.

In this chapter, we’ll explore how SharePoint can be augmented, extended, and strengthened by using Power Automate and Power Apps. We’ll also explore Power BI in a limited way as a means of building richer user interfaces for list metadata. Considering how the Power Platform can connect to the entire toolbox of M365 and well beyond, we’ll also discuss leveraging these tools outside of the SharePoint context...