Obviously your humour detector is broken (there was a smiley). I have a new name for Sharepoint 2007 - Sharepain 2007, given the number of hours I have burnt over the past two months working on a MOSS migration project for a large customer.
Storage and transmission of large files is still an issue that we are yet to solve yet unfortunately. At least as far as the earlier post went (internal sending of 3MB pictures or whatever), maybe 2010 will help with an offline client for Sharepoint. Maybe in the next phase this can be built into Outlook - send an email over a certain size, the attachment gets stored "in Sharepoint/Exchange/central file system/whatever" and the metadata (read/unread/altered/whatever) is stored in Exchange DB. Cheers Ken ________________________________________ From: Ben Scott [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 29 May 2009 11:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Amusing On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > Deploy Sharepoint, and email links instead. :-) SharePoint may well be the most overrated product in the history of Microsoft. I can tell people to email links to files on the file server just as easily. The problem is, people see it as inconvenient. They want to use email the way they want to. And why are we telling them they're wrong? Plus, much of the mail traffic is external, and our customers love to email us large engineering drawings. Let me guess: Deploy another Windows server, running SharePoint, in a DMZ, and use that as a file transfer point. So now I have to not only educate our users, I have to buy more hardware, more software, and educate all of our customers. Many of whom are hugely larger than us and don't take instruction well. How is this an improvement for us? I can see why Microsoft likes it -- it sells more licenses. Not so good for us. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
