Office 365 is a quickly expanding platform – so quickly that it might be difficult to keep track of what is included and how to best make use of it. With my new book,
Office 365 from Scratch, I want to help decision makers and administrators to learn the Microsoft cloud platform. Office 365 users who want to know more about the possibilities their accounts give them, will also find parts of the book interesting.
The topic Office 365 is huge and cannot be covered in one book. My intention has instead been to introduce the different parts of Office 365 and specify the right words for the features in apps and services. Microsoft has a lot of information online, but it is not easy to find it if you don't know what to search for!
Office 365 from Scratch starts with general information on Office 365 and describes how to get started and add user accounts. After that I introduce:
Exchange, for e-mail, calendars and contacts. E-mailing is mission critical for most organizations, but managing growing mailbox sizes can be a nightmare for IT-departments. The stable and secure Exchange Online is often one of the reasons for using Office 365.
Office, which includes the most common applications for word processing, calculation, presentations and notes. The Office 365 Enterprise subscriptions include the Office desktop suite and online editions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. 
SharePoint, for enterprise content management and sharing. I have already published two books and hundreds of video demonstrations solely about& SharePoint Online, but in a book like Office 365 from Scratch there is only room for an overview of what is most important to know. I also give information about apps that build on SharePoint: Video 
and My Site with Delve and OneDrive for Business.- Office 365 Groups, a service built on SharePoint and Exchange. In a Group users can share documents, work on project plans, schedule meetings and receive e-mails in a shared inbox – often concerning a specific topic, such as a project.
The Planner app is included in all Groups, and the Conversation apps Teams and Yammer make use of Groups just like StaffHub, the brand new app for work scheduling.
Flow, Microsoft's replacement for SharePoint workflows, can be used extensively with various services, and you can create flows for elaborate collaboration over multiple platforms.
PowerApps lets IT professions create mobile friendly apps connected to data from various sources and distribute them to users within the organization. 
Power BI helps you create interactive visualizations of data from unrelated sources and show them on websites or in apps. - Sway is a presentation app where users work on a web-based canvas.
It is possible to insert images, text, documents, videos, charts and maps from many different sources in the sways.
Office 365 from Scratch includes links to kalmstrom.com Tips articles with video demonstrations. I hope these articles will make the learning more varied and enhance the understanding.
Office 365 from Scratch is sold at Amazon. Just like my earlier books,
Office 365 from Scratch is available as e-book as well as paperback and included in the
Kindle Matchbook program, which lets you buy the e-book for a very low cost when you have purchased the paperback.
I have had good assistance with this book. My mother Kate helped me organize the material, Rituka Rimza proofread the manuscript and Vijayant Rimza created the book cover. I am grateful for your contribution!
By Peter Kalmström
CEO and Systems Designer
kalmstrom.com Business Solutions
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