The biggest irony in all of this is that the integration is so much better on Mac than windows. I think it’s because it’s less aggressive/less ingrained but the one drive,m365, whatever integration on my work Mac is night and day better than the windows machine I had.
I couldn’t stand it. And don’t get me started on team’s weird SharePoint backend or whatever the fuck they have going on.
Part of it is Apple putting the smack down on cloud storage and forcing them to all go to the same place, which is ~/CloudStorage/<>, and follow some semblance of a standard. They don’t get to do whatever the hell they want on OSX. People can hate Apple all day, I get it, but some things I appreciate, even if it is super irritating at first.
I have PTSD flashbacks of SharePoint and the ten step process we had to use to interact with it. Then in literally every meeting, “why didn’t you read the SharePoint file on that?”
I am presently working on a presentation for a group of people with average age 57. I need them to start storing files online. My options are windows shared folders, which requires a domain joined PC, of which I have a single loaner for about 80 people, and a VPN connection … or SharePoint, fml, fuck my life ever so badly.
More like the amazing tale of how the IT guy survived actively drinking himself to death until his mid 40s. It’s been told over and over and over again.
Ha. For a long time, Sharepoint would always ask me to log in, even though I had successfully logged into my laptop and was on the VPN and all of that. I finally called the help desk, and they couldn’t figure it out, so they contacted their Sharepoint support, and they couldn’t figure it out either.
Eventually, I needed a new laptop…and that fixed the problem.
Remember SharePoint is just Visual SourceSafe for documents, with a bad editor .
Anyone who’s worked with VSS will have the PTSD to know what’s going to happen. We don’t know when you’re going into lose eveything, but we know it’ll happen. MS rolling their own bad CVS is like MS rolling their own email infrastructure.
The biggest irony in all of this is that the integration is so much better on Mac than windows. I think it’s because it’s less aggressive/less ingrained but the one drive,m365, whatever integration on my work Mac is night and day better than the windows machine I had.
I couldn’t stand it. And don’t get me started on team’s weird SharePoint backend or whatever the fuck they have going on.
Part of it is Apple putting the smack down on cloud storage and forcing them to all go to the same place, which is ~/CloudStorage/<>, and follow some semblance of a standard. They don’t get to do whatever the hell they want on OSX. People can hate Apple all day, I get it, but some things I appreciate, even if it is super irritating at first.
I have PTSD flashbacks of SharePoint and the ten step process we had to use to interact with it. Then in literally every meeting, “why didn’t you read the SharePoint file on that?”
I am presently working on a presentation for a group of people with average age 57. I need them to start storing files online. My options are windows shared folders, which requires a domain joined PC, of which I have a single loaner for about 80 people, and a VPN connection … or SharePoint, fml, fuck my life ever so badly.
Alternatively you could go with the email exchange system
Presentation-FINALv3js-legalapproved-v2-11-18-24-redacted.ppt
foobar_v2_with_johns_edits_final_v3_final_final_5.docx this is gonna suck soooo bad
That sounds like a future tech community tell all story in the making.
More like the amazing tale of how the IT guy survived actively drinking himself to death until his mid 40s. It’s been told over and over and over again.
Ha. For a long time, Sharepoint would always ask me to log in, even though I had successfully logged into my laptop and was on the VPN and all of that. I finally called the help desk, and they couldn’t figure it out, so they contacted their Sharepoint support, and they couldn’t figure it out either.
Eventually, I needed a new laptop…and that fixed the problem.
Remember SharePoint is just Visual SourceSafe for documents, with a bad editor .
Anyone who’s worked with VSS will have the PTSD to know what’s going to happen. We don’t know when you’re going into lose eveything, but we know it’ll happen. MS rolling their own bad CVS is like MS rolling their own email infrastructure.
You mean Outlook, originally known as Hotmail?
Exchange, formerly known as “what if we made an email server, but it’s database is Microsoft Access?”
FUCK dont get me started on SHAREPOINT I just want to reference a single cell from another LIST why would I want ALL THE ROWS