Ken Withee

Ken Withee works for Microsoft and is part of the Azure team. Previously, he was a SharePoint consultant, and he has authored several books on Microsoft products.

Articles & Books From Ken Withee

SharePoint For Dummies
Become a SharePoint power user with this quick-and-easy guide to its many features SharePoint For Dummies is your trusted instruction manual as you learn to create sites, upload and manage documents, collaborate with coworkers, and streamline workflows. Updated to include new AI functionality with Copilot, this edition walks you through the steps you'll need to take to customize SharePoint and take advantage of all it has to offer.
Article / Updated 10-03-2022
The most common kind of view you create in a SharePoint app is a public, Standard view. A public view can be used by anyone to view the contents of an app.Standard views have the following traits: They’re accessible by all browsers, including Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. They have the most configuration options, such as filtering, grouping, and editing options.
Windows 365 For Dummies
Shift your PC to the cloud and liberate yourself from your desk Microsoft’s newest cloud-based operating system allows you to access your PC from any device. Windows 365 For Dummies teaches you the ins and outs of this game-changing OS. You’ll learn how to make the most of Windows 365—get your work done, share documents and data, monitor storage space, and do it all with increased security.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 08-12-2022
Windows 365 is Microsoft’s cloud-based operating system that lets you connect to your PC from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection. All you need is a physical device that you can use as a window into your cloud PC and you are good to go.Getting your head around using a PC in the cloud can take some time.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 04-26-2022
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 provides a web-based platform that your organization can leverage to be more productive and more competitive. With SharePoint 2016, you can manage content, publish information, track processes, and manage your overall business activities.In addition, SharePoint 2016 provides social features, such as microblogging, feeds, likes, mentions, and hash tags, to get everyone in your organization on the same page and communicating effectively.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 02-24-2022
Millions of users have realized the value of Office 365. Making the best use of the services that make up Office 365, however, can be a challenge. This guide is a quick reference to the key services, productivity tools, and security features in Office 365 to help you maximize your investment in the technology.
Article / Updated 10-21-2021
Microsoft Teams is available to users who have licenses with following Office 365 corporate subscriptions: E1, E3, E5, Business Premium, and Business Essentials. In the education plans, it is available in the A1, A1 Plus, A5, and A3 subscriptions. Plans are in place to roll out Teams in the government cloud as well.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 10-15-2021
Microsoft SharePoint provides a web-based platform that your organization can leverage to be more productive and more competitive. With SharePoint, you can manage content, publish information, track processes, and manage your overall business activities. In addition, SharePoint provides deep integration with the rest of the Office 365 applications, such as Teams, PowerApps, Flow, Forms, OneDrive, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Article / Updated 09-25-2019
It is easy to follow a SharePoint site and receive updates about what happens on that site. With the latest release of SharePoint, the option is as simple as clicking a star icon on the main page of a SharePoint website, as shown. Click the star on a SharePoint site to follow the site.If you are using the SharePoint Mobile App, the star is just a tap away, as shown in the following figure.
Step by Step / Updated 09-25-2019
A very simple, but incredibly powerful, use for PowerApps is to let users work with a custom SharePoint List-based app using their mobile phones or tablets. Just about everyone has a smartphone now, and building an app that lets your users interact with a SharePoint list brings your intranet to their mobile devices.