PlutoniumAcidSep 22, 2023

Isn't OneDrive/Sharepiont the exact OPPOSITE of a shared drive?

https://lemmy.world/post/5512364

Isn't OneDrive/Sharepiont the exact OPPOSITE of a shared drive? - Lemmy.world

Background: - At work we use MS Office, because who doesn’t. We used to have a central file server with lots of well sorted directories. - Then Corporate decided to ditch that, everything must move into OneDrive so there’s always a Data Owner. - The local boss had to move everything from the network share into his own OneDrive, and then share, with each of us, the folders that were relevant to each of us. - This sounds like distributed storage, which is probably smart in some way. In reality, it’s shit. Everything is now a link to “corporateName.sharepoint.com [http://corporateName.sharepoint.com]” in the browser, and it’s a hassle to find that in the file explorer. Worse, I have no idea what’s where. Some people share some stuff and somehow it ends up in my OneDrive, but what’s the context of it? This seems so wrong to me. Am I just not “getting” it??

Show threadShittyRedditWasBetterSep 22, 2023
Yeah. 100% missing it. Having owners as well as the ability to set labels and restrictions is an incredibly important part of keeping data sensitive.
Show threadZeth0sSep 22, 2023
And you don’t need SharePoint for that
Show threadShittyRedditWasBetterSep 22, 2023
No but rarely are the labor hours spent to do it correctly. The same with foss, implementations is expensive most of the time and that’s why you pay someone to do it for you.
Show threadZeth0sSep 22, 2023

SharePoint concept and implementation is awful though. Better have different tools for the different tasks and track different types of artifacts and documents, than using SharePoint. And everything else in normal file system.

SharePoint is the typical mammoth that does everything and it does it extremely badly. But it’s Microsoft, so all companies must use it

Show threadJigglySacklesSep 22, 2023
Sharepoint is actually very well made. It has great versatility and extensibility. The issue that you and others run into that leads to the assumption that sharepoint is bad, is that it was deployed by inexperienced or potentially incompetent people. Most of the time it’s just inexperienced people that aren’t given the time to properly train for a deployment and are told to basically wing it because “there’s no money to train you how to do it right” or other bs cheapskate business excuse.
Show threadZeth0sSep 22, 2023

In my company they paid a lot of money for it, like too much. Simply very few people like it. Mainly paper work people.

Because they paid so much for it, they always try to convince people to use it… Currently we are using it as a glorified s3 bucket for PowerPoint presentations to link them on confluence… But there is always someone who tries again to push it, before it’s miserably fails again.

That’s my experience. I am sure someone find it very useful.

Show threadJigglySackles
See in the case of those people their workflow wasn’t taken into consideration before adoption. It’s definitely not a fit for everyone. But that amount of paper waste is insane. If the docs are already digital, then the signatures and stamps should be digital as well. If the docs are all hardcopies, then sharepoint shouldn’t have been used except as an upload point.
Sep 22, 2023 at 4:27pmWeb