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

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.
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.
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.
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.
Article / Updated 09-25-2019
Microsoft Power BI (pronounced “bee-eye” as an acronym for Business Intelligence) is a cloud-based business analytics service. Here, the focus is on how you can integrate SharePoint with Power BI. You learn how to connect your reports to SharePoint so that people can use them without ever needing to leave a SharePoint site.
Article / Updated 09-24-2019
Over the years, SharePoint has become the dominant product for company intranet sites. Remember, an intranet site is a website for only your organization and includes things like human resources information, company policies, time entry, and so on. Microsoft recognized that more and more people are using mobile devices; thus, it created a SharePoint Mobile App.
Article / Updated 09-24-2019
It is human nature to learn things by exploring and it is no different with software. You could read a hundred books about SharePoint and still barely understand what exactly it is and what it does. Our thinking is that there is no better way to get to know SharePoint than to get up and running with it, clicking buttons to see what they do.
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 01-14-2019
Debit and ATM cards, when you get right down to it, aren’t credit cards at all. Using a debit card or an ATM card is more akin to writing a check than anything else. Rather than withdrawing money by writing a check, however, you withdraw money by using a debit card.Although a debit card transaction sometimes looks (at least to your friends and the merchants you shop with) like a credit card transaction, you should treat a debit card transaction like you treat a check.