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.
I dont wish to sound arrogant but I am perpetually surprised by the niaivity of the Microsoft community for supposing the Office 365 model could ever work with a Document Repository system like Sharepoint.
The problem is that the more popular these Cloud Data Server systems become, the faster they reach capacilty, and enter a Denial of Service (DOS) situation. Now I thought this would have been patently obvious to anyone with two brain cells to run together, but evidently not.
Yes Cloud Computing is good for some things, but not ALL things. Keep it light & breezy & and IF – AND ONLY IF – everyone else does the same, then it can work. So email, word processing, spreadsheets (etc) will work in the Cloud. But Sharepoint in the Cloud ? Oh please ….
It will only get worse. Sharepoint belongs on a local or locally hosted server. Beyond that expect huge latency due to logistical issues of all those people moving trying to move all that data over the wire to/from the same servers.
I feel the same way about recommending it. Â I’m the only person at my org supporting and building it out, and I’m just finding that in the O365 environment simpler is definitely better. Â There does seem to be a trade-off with performance unfortunately, but at this stage we’re just accepting it as a known risk but moving forward with it anyways – just not in a very complex manner.
The hard part is knowing that it can be so much better than it is, I’m hopeful that with time it will be, but they still have a ways to go before they get to the end of that tunnel…
Hi Adam
Thanks for your reply. I was beginning to wonder if it was my browsers that were having a problem with it. I did open the homepage in SP Designer and it flagged up an issue with a table which I fixed. Was hoping that may have been the problem but I don’t think so.
It is making me concerned about recommending Office 365 with SharePoint Online as an option! In fact I was hoping for home workers it was going to give them a more consistent experience.
Thanks
Mark.
Hi Mark,
I’ve been working with SharePoint online for several months now and have found a very similar experience in our environment. Â I’ve found the Service Health indicator in the O365 Admin Center is pretty much always green despite what appears to be an obvious latency issue.
It is odd as the behavior is completely inconsistent for me, and a few of my users experience little issue who primarily use the sites for consumption of content. Â Working on the back end or setting up libraries / lists / sites / templates though always seems to take longer than what an on prem environment would.
Have not found any kind of resolution for this, despite tickets to Microsoft. Â Afraid I’m little more help other than letting you know you’re not the only one!
-Adam
