Perspectives on SharePoint from a Pioneer
May 16, 2012
As an early adopter of SharePoint 2010, Robert Schifreen was tasked with deploying SharePoint for the University of Brighton community. At the time, very little was formally written about the product, and Microsoft itself did not know how widely adopted the product would become. Schifreen relays his personal experiences in, “SharePoint Deployment: Pitfalls of a Pioneer.” He begins with the difficult task of defining SharePoint.
To some it’s a corporate collaboration tool that does everything you need straight out of the box. To others it’s a development platform upon which, with the addition of tools such as SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio, you can build a ‘portal’ (whatever that might mean). Microsoft really needs to come up with an accurate, punchy description in order to persuade more people to give it a try.
Tasked with forming his own definition of what SharePoint is and does, Schifreen soon learned that SharePoint was not always willing to work with files and software outside of its own comfort zone.
While Microsoft likes to shout loudly about the fact that SharePoint 2010 embraces not just Windows and IE but also other browsers and other hardware, the relationship does indeed stop at a mere embrace. Some of the rich editing controls don’t like non-Microsoft browsers.
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Emily Rae Aldridge, May 16, 2012
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Robert makes some good points, and though he has encountered teething problems, things did improve when he enlisted help in the form of US based SharePoint 911.
Schifreen did comment that SharePoint complemented Active Directory beautifully, but the fact Microsoft advise that databases should never grow beyond 200GB could be a problem in the future for Robert. I will be following this case study with interest.