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Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
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#42At the risk of massive downvotes, I have to admit that a small part of me wants this so that maybe corporations stop using Sharepoint as soon as possible. Seriously, I haven't used it since 2017, but every time I used it then it was the worst part of my day. I used to have a shirt that said SHarepoIT Happens that I would wear to work, and it seemed like the one thing I could get my coworkers agree on was that Sharepo…
I upvoted you .. share the same sentiment.
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#43Another day another vulnerability with Microsoft. I wonder if this will incentivize the countries to move faster with Linux. Probably not since there are so many of these breaches people just ignore them. I miss the old days when a breach involved someone breaking into the computer room and grabbing as many mag tapes as they can carry and run :)
Genuinely asking - is there a Linux alternative to Sharepoint? I couldn't care less if it was lit on metaphorical fire and dumped into the sea, but a lot of orgs using it extensively.
Nextcloud, particularly with the Collabora Office integration for real-time collaborative document editing. It's got some rough edges but I'd say it suits the majority of use cases now. I suggest spinning up a copy of the community edition in a VM to give it a spin, I was pleasantly surprised. There is a lot of money getting poured in right now as entities outside the US are exploring ways to ditch American software.
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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Re: Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Genuinely asking - is there a Linux alternative to Sharepoint? I couldn't care less if it was lit on metaphorical fire and dumped into the sea, but a lot of orgs using it extensively.
For collaborative documentation, there’s probably a bunch of alternatives. But SharePoint is the linchpin for Microsoft 365. Well technically SharePoint and Exchange. You can’t use any Microsoft 365 products without SharePoint. OneDrive uses SharePoint. Outlook Groups and Teams Channels create Microsoft 365 Groups. Every Microsoft 365 Group creates a SharePoint site. Microsoft Loop uses Microsoft SharePoint Embedded.…
Google Docs and Libre Office both produce compatible documents. There's really no reason to force one or the other.
It's just conflating needs. Document editing and file storage are two different tasks. It's weird that people want everything integrated. It's not much effort to just drag and drop a file into G-Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, box.com...
Re: Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say
#46At the risk of massive downvotes, I have to admit that a small part of me wants this so that maybe corporations stop using Sharepoint as soon as possible. Seriously, I haven't used it since 2017, but every time I used it then it was the worst part of my day. I used to have a shirt that said SHarepoIT Happens that I would wear to work, and it seemed like the one thing I could get my coworkers agree on was that Sharepo…
My boss spent over a year trying to get me to setup Sharepoint. About 6 months into this, I finally looked into it and what it provided and said no. Eventually he hired a second tech and he set it up "in an afternoon." Good for him. Nobody ever used it. He also stole my high speed USB drive.
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#47Another day another vulnerability with Microsoft. I wonder if this will incentivize the countries to move faster with Linux. Probably not since there are so many of these breaches people just ignore them. I miss the old days when a breach involved someone breaking into the computer room and grabbing as many mag tapes as they can carry and run :)
I operate under the assumption that open source projects are compromised by states. If you espouse unpopular ideas or are yourself a state don’t rely on it.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Genuinely asking - is there a Linux alternative to Sharepoint? I couldn't care less if it was lit on metaphorical fire and dumped into the sea, but a lot of orgs using it extensively.
O365 is a poor amalgamation of like 18 different things. Quite frankly I hope there isn't a true "alternative" to it. The reason orgs use Sharepoint is they are forced to if they use Microsoft. One drive is sharepoint, teams is sharepoint, sharepoint sites is sharepoint, etc... I'm sure all those things have better alternatives, but Microsoft shoves them down your throat when you license with them.
> Sharepoint is a poor amalgamation of like 18 different things.
You’ve got it backwards. Everything M365 is an amalgamation of Entra, SharePoint, and Exchange.
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#49Is it a coincidence that this was reported on the same day it was also reported that the FBI was storing the Epstein files on a Sharepoint server [1]? https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstein-cover-up-at-th...
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#50Another day another vulnerability with Microsoft. I wonder if this will incentivize the countries to move faster with Linux. Probably not since there are so many of these breaches people just ignore them. I miss the old days when a breach involved someone breaking into the computer room and grabbing as many mag tapes as they can carry and run :)
Genuinely asking - is there a Linux alternative to Sharepoint? I couldn't care less if it was lit on metaphorical fire and dumped into the sea, but a lot of orgs using it extensively.
For the file storage/sharing/collaboration part, yeah - there's plenty, and sharepoint arguably sucks even for that.
What trapped a lot of orgs is making use of the whole PowerPlatform around sharepoint. There's a lot of crusty old LoB apps built with MS's no code tools (PowerAutomate, PowerApps) which run on SharePoint as the delivery platform. Some of these even hook into Excel files stored in the various document libraries, etc. There are entire, large business processes being handled by this platform, and so migrating will require actual dev time, which automatically makes it a non-starter for most, unfortunately. Doubly so when you consider that a lot of these "solutions" were built by non-devs, long since gone from the company and no one knows how deep the tentacles go.