Sharepoint Aggregated Reviews

SharePoint is not a file server. If you try to use it as one you’ll have a hell of a time. Permissions and groups are a nightmare and 6 months down the line you’ll find out someone gave a client/friend/vendor access to a whole folder with sensitive information.
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Was going to say the same thing. SharePoint is a collaboration and communication platform, so there’s a process and understanding shift involved. If it’s treated like a simple file share and users aren’t gradually trained and introduced, you’ll quickly start finding rogue Dropbox accounts and G Docs in my experience.
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Moving from file shares to SharePoint is a big change for end users. We regularly do this for our clients and my best advice is to first use it and understand it yourself. Then, try a pilot program with a select bunch of IT savvy users.
There are some drawbacks to using SharePoint and some major benefits. SharePoint is designed for documents, eg word, excel, PowerPoint and PDF. Storing images, cad or anything which requires direct access to the file system will be majorly inconvenient to your users.
That said, SharePoint enables live collaboration on documents, version control, access anywhere and many other benefits.
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Sharepoint is widely used in enterprises, true, but not really a newbie friendly technology to get your programming feet wet. Not to mention if you focus on that as your first real deep dive into programming, you’re likely to come up with some really skewed concepts on how web development is done.
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I’ve done incredible things with Sharepoint…
– We created a SOX process and document repository around it. Lots of lists, lots of doc repos, many hands in the pot all managed centrally. This was for a large financial firm.
– I’ve built a vacation calendar (with approval workflow) for a small company.
– I’ve used it as a collaboration tool for meetings where minutes, notes, documents, and so on can be kept.
– I’ve managed an inventory of thousands of servers
– We created build automation around it where a user submits a form and then automation runs against the list and builds hosts and updates the list with status.
I’ve worked with HR to use it as their public (internal but readable by the entire company) facing intranet site. And have done this for many teams I was on.
But the common denominator is that Sharepoint was there before I did any of those projects. I don’t think I could have brought it in to the company. Some of those projects require the paid version of sharepoint and its hard to justify the cost for just one of those projects. But put them all together where the entire company gets some value out of it, then yeah… It can definitely be worth it.
So, to me… Is it worth it, yeah. There are other tools that can be used to do each of those things, but having something that can easily be extended was very nice.
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SharePoint is intended to be more than the world’s most complicated and expensive file share. If a fileshare is all you’re using it for, then, yeah, there are better solutions.
It’s also complex enough that you really need someone trained and experienced to administer it. SharePoint allows an inexperienced admin to shoot themselves in the foot with a belt-fed automatic shotgun, and then recursively shoot the feet off everyone in their company.
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