My work switched from Google drive to sharepoint about a year ago and I can't stand it. I'm told it's a skill issue, but Idk how. So I turn to the professional to knock me down a rung

A quick rant of what I hate

1. The back button takes me to the home page instead of back a folder in our structure

2. I can't click and drag, why can't I just click the file and drag to a new folder or drag to upload, didnt Microsoft invent the dang click and drag?!? (Hyperbole)

2.b. "move to" doesn't exist always? I select the files I want to move, click the menu symbol, no way to move the file. Are you really telling me I have to by hand download and re-upload them all?

3. On mobile, it refuses to download files, "download" just opens, and if I can't open them on my phone (like my drafting files), it just refuses to do anything

4. Also on mobile, if I so much as blink wrong, it will send me back to the home page

5. This is small, but it adds to the frustration, on mobile, it takes 27 years to open anything compared to any other app on the same network/same device

I'm sure there are other things, but I'm blinded by rage and am blanking. All sharepoint gets me is higher blood preassure and a fancy home page, which feels unnecessary if it's internal use only

All that said, tell me how I'm an idiot and what I'm doing wrong

I hate sharepoint. I don’t know what else to say. The interface is insufferable, the permission settings are ridiculous. Every single day I have to beg IT support to make it functional. I can’t find any official documentation or explanation. I miss Google and I hate my work life. Does anyone have a glimmer of hope? Anything to help? I truly want to beat my head in.

How can peole rely on this pile of junk?

I search the same exact thing and then the lottey begins, some time it finds it, some other time no.

I have never seen such piece of trash in my life.

Hi All,

Is anybody else as frustrated with Microsoft Support as I am?

I develop SharePoint Apps.

Last week I discovered my dev tenant (which is paid for because I can't get Project Online free) was compromised.

I can't log into it and the hacker has added services billed to my credit card.

There has been no response from the Microsoft support ticket I raised over a week ago. MS partner support just closed a MSPartner ticket because it was duplicated with the generic, nobody support ticket.

Just now I tried to create a new O365 tenant to make "some" progress on app dev, but can't get past the verify phone number page. (Security validation error message)

MS Support system blocks raising tickets that don't fit into a category and only lists categories that don't apply.

No human ever seems to get involed.

I'm a MS partner, but have no human to talk to.

I am so over it and frustrated, I am shaking writing this.

Out of nowhere, nobody can access the site. Anyone else having issues with access?

Save the resulting spreadsheet to this sharepoint location they say. Sounds easy enough. I've worked with dozens of apis in the past.
False.
This one has me beyond frusterated.
There are 2 apis, a sharepoint one and a graph one. The graph one is easier to use, but doesn't support everything. The documentation is never really clear about which one they are talking about.
The authentication schemes are also different for some reason, so is the setup. Site ID, Tenent ID, Client ID, Client Secret good luck figuringout what all these are refering too.
Also, there are sites, and lists and something called web. What is all this stuff? How do I map this
confusing URL in my browser to the api call that need to make? What other "REST" api puts function calls with parameters in QUOTES in a URL!!! Good luck.
Also apparentlly there is some sperate XML post you have to make to grant some permission that isn't on the admin site.
Also my companies Sharepoint Admin doesn't have a clue. And the instructions are clear enough for me to tell him what I need.
Sharepoint is an embarssasment.

Quick heads‑up for anyone planning to use SharePoint file‑level archive to fix storage pressure.

It does NOT reduce tenant storage usage or quota.

Archiving files doesn’t lower site size, doesn’t lower “used storage,” and doesn’t buy you headroom. If you’re at 85–90% used, you’ll still be there after file‑level archiving.

What it does do:

• Keeps files inside active sites (lifecycle / UX win)

• Marks them as archived (cold state)

• Counts them as archived storage for billing

The gotcha:

Because standard storage doesn’t go down, but archive usage does go up, your combined (standard + archive) can cross your quota and trigger archive charges.

So yes — in some tenants, file‑level archive can increase cost, not reduce it.

Rule of thumb

• ✅ Need quota relief → site‑level archive or delete

• ✅ Need lifecycle control inside active sites → file‑level archive

• ❌ Don’t treat file‑level archive as a storage‑savings lever

Sharing so others don’t learn this the expensive way 🙂

Hi all, how do you feel about this for a startup or very small company? I'm sure, many security concerns but I think I've seen some of this while surfing the web. Specifically, noticed it being used on some government and small municipality sites.

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This SharePoint tutorial will demonstrate how to restrict access to a folder in SharePoint Online. Specifically, it will demonstrate how to restrict access to a folder in SharePoint by breaking permission inheritance. The video will outline how this can be performed when working with a SharePoint Online modern site and also a SharePoint Online classic site. Lastly, the video will also demonstrate how you can reinstate access to the specified folder.

Does your organization permit users to break permission inheritance?

How To Restrict Access To A Folder In SharePoint

I do not subscribe to 365, and I do not want to. I have a stand alone Excel/Word that suites my needs and do not have Sharepoint. I have someone that wants me to upload to their Sharepoint account. Is there a way to do that without subscribing? I do not want any of it on my computer or tethered to it.

After 8 years of working in and with SPS as a user, an admin, and a presentation-layer developer. I have a simple question:

Why, why, why in the ##()&*@ do people insist on using InfoPath forms?

Currently having an issue where some users type a search query into the global search bar, and literally nothing happens. No preview results pop up, and no query is performed when they click enter or or the magnifier. This started sometime last week, and all of the affected sites worked fine before. No permissions have changed. I've tried reindexing the sites. For some reason it still works fine on my global admin account; it seems to only affect normal user accounts.

Also the gear doesn't load. It isn't just loading slow like usual, it absolutely will not load in any amount of time.

Anybody else know if this is a current issue on Microsoft's end, or if there's something I can do locally to fix it?

Thanks!

We've hit this on a few engineering firms' RFI registers in SharePoint Online. Posting the fix because most of what search turns up is SharePoint Server advice.

Quick context: 5,000 is the list view threshold. An Online list can hold up to 30 million items. The error fires when one view tries to return more than 5,000.

What fixed it:

1. Make a new test view so the team's default stays untouched.

2. Write down what the failing view asks for: filters, sort, Group By/Totals, every lookup and person column.

3. Pick the column that narrows daily work most (usually Project or Status). List settings > Indexed columns > index it.

4. Make that column the FIRST filter (Project equals current job). Confirm it returns well under 5,000, then add Status is not Closed.

5. Strip grouping, totals and nonessential lookups from the working view. Whoever needs them gets a separate, narrower view.

6. Using project folders? Leave "Show all items without folders" off. It flattens everything into one query and the error comes right back.

Gotchas:

- An index won't rescue an unselective view. All-history plus heavy grouping or lookups can still fail.
- Export to Excel is one-way. Edits in the workbook never reach SharePoint, and a refresh overwrites them. Date the file name, treat it as read-only.
- Raise the threshold, Access Services, reset the old sync client: that's Server/legacy advice. In Online the lever is the view.
- If a flow reads the register, filter Get items on the same indexed column.

While the view is down, one named PM works from the last dated export and keeps a short exception log, then reconciles it to the register once the view is live.

If a cross-project open-RFI view still returns 5,000+ after filtering, the next step is a data-model review (how RFIs, projects and submittals relate, which lookups the views lean on). Record count alone isn't a reason to migrate.

Full write-up with the exact steps:
Read the full write-up!

I'm looking strictly at Microsoft's move to phase out designer workflows. This is hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of man hours disrupted. What right do they have to do this?