Do you use SharePoint 365 at work? What do you think about it?

[Cromulent]

I'm considering using SharePoint to manage many documents, and since it comes with my Microsoft 365 account, I thought it would be a good choice.

I wondered if anyone here uses SharePoint 365 in their job or for personal things through Microsoft 365? What are your experiences using it?

 

[Dolph]

Sharepoint is one of those tools that can be absolutely brilliant or any utter nightmare, depending on how well it's been configured for the tasks you want to do with it.

It really depends on what you're actually trying to do both to whether sharepoint is suitable and whether it's the most effective solution.

 

[Rroff]

We use it extensively - I'm largely indifferent but it has some quite annoying features, mostly around authentication/logging in - but also is pretty powerful and as above depends a lot on the quality of the implementation of it.

 

[Cromulent]

I found a program that does what I wanted. Mendeley seems to work on Windows, Mac, and Linux. I'm still going to look into SharePoint to organise different types of files. Thank you for the info, though. It was handy.

 

[LizardKing]

We use it extensively - I'm largely indifferent but it has some quite annoying features, mostly around authentication/logging in - but also is pretty powerful and as above depends a lot on the quality of the implementation of it.

With Seamless SSO that should be pretty much negated, cant remember the last time i had to sign into our sharepoint but that goes back to your point of its implementation.

 

[Rroff]

With Seamless SSO that should be pretty much negated, cant remember the last time i had to sign into our sharepoint but that goes back to your point of its implementation.

A large part of why we are using it is to facilitate BYOD, etc. which obviously brings its own challenges and requirements but sometimes it seems like the people (not just our implementation) who work on that side never actually use it themselves making for a very tedious process for things which shouldn't be, even when adhering to legal/security requirements.

 

[LizardKing]

A large part of why we are using it is to facilitate BYOD, etc. which obviously brings its own challenges and requirements but sometimes it seems like the people (not just our implementation) who work on that side never actually use it themselves making for a very tedious process for things which shouldn't be, even when adhering to legal/security requirements.

I feel that pain, we offer a few services to users who likely never touch them but its there just in case.... just adds to my workload.
Corporate devices can be treated differently to byod devices with condition access policy's, but if your info security don't want something, its pain all round!