[synapsomorphy]

Sharepoint is one of the worst, most bug-ridden softwares I've worked with.

It has a bug with Solidworks (3D design suite) that sporadically makes files completely un-openable unless you go in and change some metadata. They are aware of this, doesn't seem to be any limitation preventing them from fixing it, and it has sat unfixed for years.

Microsoft's cloud storage as a whole is an insane tangle where you never know where you'll find something you're looking for or whether it will work. Some things work only in browser, some only in the app, zero enumeration of these things anywhere.

Completely unsurprised and I'm sure there are many more vulnerabilities ripe for the picking.

[VladVladikoff]

Every time I need to touch anything made my Microsoft lately I am met with multiple levels of glitchyness, straight up bugs, most frustratingly it’s so excruciatingly slow.

Recently I tried to configure a new subdomain to handle mail on 365 and even finding their DKIM configuration section was a mission. Once finding it, I learned that their DNS check fails to properly handle subdomains for email, so you have to put their DKIM keys against your root domain. Genius!

[curvaturearth]

But wait! 35% of Microsoft's code is now written by AI so surely it will get better

[throwforfeds]

I'm working on a gov contract right now and they're forcing everyone to migrate off of Slack and into Teams. I somehow have managed to avoid MS corporate products for the better part of two decades. People's tolerance to UX pain seems to be boundless in corporate/fed worlds.

[aidos]

We sync content to MS hosted Sharepoint using rsync. When the file arrives, they change the internal metadata inside the file, which changes the checksum, which causes rsync to think the content is different and needs syncing again.

Edit to say: this is for MS files like Excel docs

[elygre]

Is that a supported method?

[bArray]

Microsoft Word online deletes text in Firefox Linux (maybe others too) for at least two years now [1]. The one thing you want a text editor to do is be able to write text into a document, and somehow this bug goes unfixed. You would think it would be priority #1 for paying customers of Business Office 365 - and yet nothing.

It ended up being easier just to switch to paid Overleaf and teach our non-tech members how to write LaTeX and/or use the built-in editor. The documents are beautiful, Overleaf doesn't miss a beat and we are very happy with their solution.

Microsoft should be ashamed - I don't know how anybody would ever consider using them for any serious production work.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5216132/...

[jmm5]

I am a social worker and SharePoint is unfortunately widely used by nonprofit agencies for storing client records. It's a real shame, but they can't afford anything better.

[rs186]

Not defending Microsoft in any way but my guess of what's happening:

* Too few people use Firefox to access Office online, they don't care

* Your organization is too small for them to care

[nairboon]

That bug has been around for years. I always wondered if that was deliberate. I guess that Microsoft support answer settles the question...

>Sorry for that we may have no enough resources about the Linux environment.

[mmooss]

> teach our non-tech members how to write LaTeX

How did that go? :)

[soupfordummies]

It's such a critical backbone to so many of their services but they treat it like a forgotten stepchild for the most part

[eterm]

They've managed to mess up sharepoint even worse lately.

I went there to try to find where company meetings got recorded to.

I went to my sharepoint bookmark, which weirdly is www.office.com after some previous nightmare rebrand.

Except what used to be the way into your sharepoint files, is now just a full page copilot screen with no hint of where the fuck your files are.

Even though you've been visiting this bookmark for years, to get to your sharepoint files.

Ok, so you search bing sign into sharepoint.

Top result is office.com . You ignore it.

Next result is:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/sign-in-to-sharep...

This links you to https://m365.cloud.microsoft/

Ok great. Nope! Redirects you back to copilot.

I do NOT want to ask copilot to dig out my files every time you want a file. I want to get back to the directory listing so I can find the directory listing to find the company meeting recording.

How does MS not understand that replacing all UX with copilot is not an improvement, and is not helping sell copilot.

[tanseydavid]

MS has adopted the Winchester Mystery House model for architecture in Sharepoint.

[cachius]

Did you find it eventually?

[downrightmike]

Developed and maintained in China by Chinese nationals, with untechnical escorts overseeing their work.

[ThinkBeat]

How large are the files?

[synapsomorphy]

Kilobytes or single digit megabytes. It happens because Sharepoint sporadically alters created/edited metadata for any (?) file it stores. Most programs don't care about that but Solidworks does.