Hi Everyone
I’m currently setting up SharePoint for a company using SharePoint Online (E1) package of Office 365.
I seem to be getting a slow performance from SharePoint even with a fast internet connection within the office. I have tried using Chrome (Mac and Windows 7 Ultimate) and IE (Windows 7 Ultimate). I find pages are hanging and I need to refresh. One page took nearly 20 seconds to open.
I performed a demo the other day and was struggling, which was a bit embarrassing!
Anyone else had this problem with SharePoint Online?
Many thanks
Mark.
Mine is slow too. Â I also experience intermittent correlation ID errors and other anomalies. Â
Hi Mark,
I know you posted this a while ago, but we have some users getting the same intermittent response issues and was wondering if you ever resolved this. I have a call open with Microsoft; we are on a European tenancy accessed from the UK via a 300Mb pipe. We have added IP’s to the firewall and *.sharepoint.com to the whitepaper in the proxy server and to local PC internet settings to try to resolve it, but as yet it’s the same.
We have reports that when users work from home the response is fine.
I personally don’t appear to get the issue the same as other users so we are checking what they are doing at the point of the system running slowly, we are upgrading Browsers to a minimum spec of IE9.
Very slow here in Australia too, our data centers are probably in Singapore. Â
in my consultancy with most small business users 50mb is one document.
sure, at the micro scale of things, spo is great. but when you hit “the wall” of spo limits, you hit it hard. don’t ignore the limitations of cloud computing. they are real and high risk.
I actually disagree with you to a good amount, and agree with you partially. Your sentence “Yes Cloud Computing is good for some things, but not ALL things.” captures my opinion quite well. You could easily replace “Cloud Computing” here with SharePoint Online.
Is SPO suitable for document management? Absolutely! Is On-Premises better suited for it? It depends (as always, with SharePoint). I would definitely never rule out SPO, there are lots of good use cases for it. For example, a small company that wants to collaborate with externals, or a company that is situated in multiple locations. But there are of course also lots of cases where moving to SPO may be the wrong choice, be it when the desired functionality is not available, there are specific regulatory requirements, or simply when you’re working with quite large files (let’s say 50+MB) on a regular basis (daily, maybe even multiple times a day) and you don’t have a HUGE internet connection.
In the end, every move to the cloud needs to be considered individually and planned carefully.
