- a typical workflow involves more steps than previously
- there are few or no keyboard shortcuts
- there are multiple ways of doing the same thing
- steps, which should be mandatory (eg. check-out), can be skipped by unknowing users (=> non-intuitive interface, which requires more training)
- many features require Internet Explorer, which has upset myself and many of my colleagues. The rendered layout changes from browser to browser.
- it is SLOW requiring 3-6 seconds just to open the front page (in a preloaded browser), depending on time-of-day

On the positive side we now have a single “repository” for documents rather than having them scattered all over branch office servers. Also, version control is a good idea although it is not nearly as well integrated as eg. Subversion with Tortoisesvn. The search capabilities are not google quality by far, but I am often able to find what I need.

The sharepoint portal project is still in progress so hopefully some of the issues will be solved. However, as Jesper writes, sharepoint is basically a MS product and most updates/remedies should and will come from Microsoft. Knowing Microsofts strategy of vendor lock-in I doubt a number of the issues will ever be fixed.

It is a just released book by a guy named Dux. I just bought it and it has cleared up a lot of issues I have had. THis guy knows his stuff. If you get it, post back and let me know if it helped you too.

Sharepoint was too bloated for me and I had a terrible time with CSS, but he laid it all out for me, so I don’t think i will get fired yet. HAHA

I agree … I’m currently fighting with trying to customise the CSS for “My Sites” to make them look the same as the look & feel that I have already applied to the Portal … absolute nightmare!

We should have to spend hours fighting with something that should be relatively simple to achieve – yet because of bad defaults ootb we waste time that could otherwise be better spent on other parts of a sharepoint rollout.