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Microsoft Overhauls SharePoint To Compete With Slack In The Mobile Era (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Microsoft is overhauling SharePoint today, and introducing iOS, Android, and Windows 10 Mobile apps. The iOS SharePoint app will arrive by the end of June, with the Android and Windows 10 Mobile versions due for release later this year. All of the mobile apps are designed to make SharePoint more accessible on the go, allowing users to access things like corporate intranet sites and content. Alongside the new apps, Microsoft is also providing access to SharePoint Online document libraries in OneDrive mobile apps, and the ability to copy from OneDrive to SharePoint. Microsoft plans to synchronize SharePoint Online document libraries with the new OneDrive sync client by the end of the year, and integrate SharePoint sites with Office 365 Groups. Microsoft's new Flow service, which lets you automate tasks, will also be integrated into SharePoint by the end of the year.
It's something that they've rolled out at work that nobody uses.
It's a Microsoft technology used to:
A) Share documents, lists, and calendars with other people in your organization who have absolutely no interest in, and never will look at those things.
B) Work well with only the current iteration of Internet Explorer, but not subsequent ones.
C) Mimic the look and functionality of a web site, but is coded like some kind of embedded control software for 1960's nuclear power plants that may one day be ported to work on an AS400 if it takes off.
I spent a fair amount of time as a SharePoint 2007 admin, and was recently rescued from having to oversee the migration to Office365 and OneNote (the latter of which I hear is a total cluster-f@#$).
I'm sorry, but your opinion seems to be wrong.
I only use my department's SharePoint when I absolutely have to, but I've never been able to make heads or tails out of it.
It seems to be some kind of half-assed mashup of a website, a file share, a blog, a wiki and a revision control system. I think it combines just the worst attributes of each one. Maybe it makes sense to someone, but I can never find anything in that mess.
Most of the people I work with stick with one of those simple open source wikis that we have set up. You have to do manual markup to add stuff, but at least it makes sense.
It's an enterprise document sharing and collaboration tool, which pointy-haired bosses love, and no one (except them) uses.
I've observed and experienced the same thing. It seems to come about when Microsoft suits get together with corporate suits to do some suit talk, and then all of a sudden, hey, we have a new "solution" that will utterly transform your work life!
If you are in the IT department, your work life will indeed be transformed as now it is you who have been made responsible for ensuring all the results the Microsoft suits promised the corporate suits. If you are in another department, you'll go to some classes, log on once or twice, and continue doing things as you always have--- you know, in a manner that actually works.
My favorite feature is the tendency of the Office built-in gee-wiz integration to just sort of fail silently sometimes. Everything opens up fine. Hitting save seems to save it. Close it and there is no problem. Then go back to sharepoint and where are your changes? If you are lucky maybe still somewhere in your %TEMP% folder. Fun, fun.
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It may be have the worst attributes of everything but that's because of what it tries to do: everything.
Want a document management system? Sharepoint!
Want a media management system? Sharepoint!
Want a collaboration system? Sharepoint!
Want a CMS based website? Sharepoint!
Want a file server? Sharepoint!
Want a blog? Sharepoint!
Want a database link for time management? Sharepoint!
Want a front end for your accounting system in SAP? Sharepoint!
Are you an admin and want some job security by creating a completely unmanageable system that no one will understand except for you? 3 words: Share Fucking Point!
Ok jokes aside, if you want to do any single thing then Sharepoint is quite horrible. But if you want to do everything then Sharepoint as frustrating as it is can be a one stop shop.
At least it doesn't try to be an init system.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."