Does anyone else use this unintuitive, slow, spotty program?
My primary issue is that it seems to have synching problems on their end. One minute you can open/save stuff and 3 minutes later you can't reach the server. One of my co-workers is of the mind that out ISP is at fault, but since nothing else seems to have that issue, I'm inclined to blame Sharepoint.
To be clear, we have not got a local (in-house) server. EVERY action with a file (save/open, primarily) is saved to Sharepoint as you go.
What say you all? Anyone else use this? Do you have issues with it?
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Never had trouble accessing sharepoint. It's been sluggish navigating explorer due to some local windows 7 settings. I mostly only use it for archiving.
I've very little experience with it, but I'd say most small-midsize businesses don't have IT departments with enough experience in that particular application to properly to implement sharepoint properly.
I've very little experience with it, but I'd say most small-midsize businesses don't have IT departments with enough experience in that particular application to properly to implement sharepoint properly.
Never had any issues with it. In fact, I really like the collaboration tools.
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As a server administrator for a fairly large segment of a government agency, I can confirm that though Sharepoint has its uses, it's servers can also be reeeely tempermental, especially if someone set them up wrong to begin with. we have a couple local inhouse sharepoint instances, and once you get them configured and tuned properly, they generally work well until someone who thinks they know how to code starts messing with infopath and does something unfortunate. That happens fairly often.
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Oh man..
We host a SP server.. I refer to it as the bane of my existence.
Thankfully I can usually get away with ignoring it and hoping that no one wants anything done to it.. but on the days that someone seems to ask for what should usually be the simplest thing I usually end up sitting there for 6 hours ready to tear my hair out and my face off. I don't want to complain too much (it might hear me..) since when it sits there quietly and hosts it's files then it can sit there.. but we have had some wrestling matches..
In my own defense I didn't set it up and I'm not a "code" person.. but to make what should be the most intuitive thing work in this usually seems equal to taking apart an entire car just to change the tire..
It's getting better I guess as every time I am forced to work with it I learn more and more about how to "trick" it into functioning without breaking something else that should have nothing to do with what I was working on.. I can't say that it doesn't cause me to feel like I'm accomplishing something whenever I work with it..
My staff knows my opinion on it by now and usually whenever they need something done on it they give me this sinister look first and grin and I instantly know that they are going to ask me a question about Sharepoint at which time I have to hold back audibly hissing at them and railing off about how much it has to die a horrible death.
At one point I almost convinced them to hire a consultant for it.. but unfortunately I always seem to fumble my way through whatever it was they wanted done. At this point I've gotten enough of it under my belt to simply throw up a little in my mouth whenever I work with it rather than just projectile vomit all over my monitor.. but yeah.. Sharepoint...
/rambling rant off
Edited, Mar 7th 2014 9:52pm by Kelvyquayo
We host a SP server.. I refer to it as the bane of my existence.
Thankfully I can usually get away with ignoring it and hoping that no one wants anything done to it.. but on the days that someone seems to ask for what should usually be the simplest thing I usually end up sitting there for 6 hours ready to tear my hair out and my face off. I don't want to complain too much (it might hear me..) since when it sits there quietly and hosts it's files then it can sit there.. but we have had some wrestling matches..
In my own defense I didn't set it up and I'm not a "code" person.. but to make what should be the most intuitive thing work in this usually seems equal to taking apart an entire car just to change the tire..
It's getting better I guess as every time I am forced to work with it I learn more and more about how to "trick" it into functioning without breaking something else that should have nothing to do with what I was working on.. I can't say that it doesn't cause me to feel like I'm accomplishing something whenever I work with it..
My staff knows my opinion on it by now and usually whenever they need something done on it they give me this sinister look first and grin and I instantly know that they are going to ask me a question about Sharepoint at which time I have to hold back audibly hissing at them and railing off about how much it has to die a horrible death.
At one point I almost convinced them to hire a consultant for it.. but unfortunately I always seem to fumble my way through whatever it was they wanted done. At this point I've gotten enough of it under my belt to simply throw up a little in my mouth whenever I work with it rather than just projectile vomit all over my monitor.. but yeah.. Sharepoint...
/rambling rant off
Edited, Mar 7th 2014 9:52pm by Kelvyquayo
I'm a Share Point administrator and it has its functions, but overall a pain. It's so slow and random. Some times it will upload stuff with no issues and other times it will just error out.
We abuse the snot out of SharePoint at my office. It's "slow" in a relative sense - any action that causes a change state means the directory refreshes, which takes a few annoying seconds.
Honestly 90% of my hatred comes from the fact that we are standardized on IE8. Even IE9 feels faster now.
I'm leaning toward an ISP issue, though, if it's not locally hosted.
Honestly 90% of my hatred comes from the fact that we are standardized on IE8. Even IE9 feels faster now.
I'm leaning toward an ISP issue, though, if it's not locally hosted.
Honestly, Sharepoint is no better/worse than any of a half dozen different document sharing tools I've had to use. My biggest issue is that it seems like every year or so, someone decides we need to move to the newest/latest tool, right about when we've finally gotten used to the old one. I swear that where I work there are some groups that exist entirely to implement "new things". Doesn't mean "better" at all, just "new". Pain in the butt is what it is.
There's nothing like having to somewhat arbitrarily import an entire tree of documents you're responsible for maintaining to yet another document handling tool. Lots of work, virtually zero actual payoff. But hey, it's innovation or something, right?
There's nothing like having to somewhat arbitrarily import an entire tree of documents you're responsible for maintaining to yet another document handling tool. Lots of work, virtually zero actual payoff. But hey, it's innovation or something, right?
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