Microsoft issues first SharePoint 2016 preview Microsoft has released the first preview of SharePoint Server 2016 and outlined a buzzword-list of new features. Microsoft says its made “deep investment in HTML5” to give you “capabilities that enable device-specific targeting of content. This helps ensure that users have access to the information they need, regardless of the …
Yep. spot on.
I uploaded a PDF filie into our sharepoint system last week.
I carefully copied the URL and put it in an email to some colleagues (I refuse to use that non term 'co-worker')
Several of them accessed the document last week. One was on holiday until yesterday.
He tried to access said document.
Guess what... It has gone.
The document disappeared over the weekend. Even the Sharepoint Admins can't find it.
I even supplied them with a screenshot (which had been included in the emails) to show them that I wasn't telling porkies.
Nope it has gone to that great bitbucket in the sky.
It is little wonder that there are at least 10 different local document stores in use around the company 'just because' sharepoint is so crap. Perhaps if we asked kindly the NSA might give us our document back?
Been working with various iterations of SharePoint for the past 6 years, in various organisations of varying quality.
I've seen this many times...there's a common theme with each issue, it tends to be the fleshy, squidgy thing. Never thought I'd see such issues from esteemed El Reg commentards though.
A new “cloud hybrid search” will permit users wielding “SharePoint Server 2013 and Office 365 to retrieve unified search results through a combined search index in Office 365.”
Wow, sounds like they've done the impossible, and made finding stuff that's been borg'd into sharepoint even harder!
Why perverse products from the SM stable get whipped into service by the corporate sector?
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Perhaps it’s because management simply like to “switch between activity and passivity” with Share Pain.
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Don't. Get. Me. Started.
Every time I see an intranet running on SharePoint I knwo that IT has overreached itself, and has given themselves a Big Boys' Toy that fits right in their comfort zone without a care for the the absolutely crappy user front-end. I have turned down juicy consulting jobs when I saw SharePoint in their headlights, or already on premises, because it is impossible to deliver a quality product with it. Yes, youc an spend £4m and get is to 'work', but by do that when you can get something really superb for a comparative song?
When IT colleagues start telling me how they could really add value to the business if only someone listened to them, I ask if they would implement SharePoint for anything other than project management and, if they say yes, I make Note To Self never to ask their input on any business-related thing.
I suppose, technically, the business is worth more - there's the resale value of the dozens of servers it will need.
I do despair of that comfort zone - it's that old-school IT-for-its-own-sake ethos where the business benefits are quickly dropped off the spec.
"We have a great Sharepoint setup." "Yeah? What's it for?" "Oh, about a million quid a year"
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