Re: Using SharePoint to host documentation

[John G <john -at- garisons -dot- com>]

My last experience with SharePoint was at least 5 years ago ... and my
biggest problem was that no one was able to find anything that had been put
into SharePoint.

I also recall absolutely loathing it. May your experience be better than
mine.



On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 2:56 PM, <Brian -dot- Henderson -at- mitchell1 -dot- com> wrote:

> When they brought in SharePoint here, the IT folks wouldn't install it
> where it needed to be (root, I believe), and because of that nobody was
> able to be assigned privileges correctly. This has been nothing but trouble
> ever since.
>
> -Brian H.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Robert Lauriston
>
> SharePoint can be a nightmare if you don't have all the necessary
> privileges so are dependent on someone in IT to do things they may not
> understand very well.
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Jim <jameswitkin -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > Has anyone used SharePoint as a place to host technical documentation,
> not
> > just for internal use but also accessible to people outside our firewall?
> > If I am using MS Word as my authoring tool, are there any advantages to
> > using SharePoint to publish? Does SharePoint serve HTML pages?
>
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