As a SharePoint consultant working with government and private industry I see many clients suffer the same pain points from well known shortcomings in the product stack. Yet it can be a struggle to find, get client buy in for, and implement solutions to resolve them. For example one that I ran into (again) this week, “Email a link” with Document ID not path/name URL.
This lack of easy to access standard reference solutions to common issues is IMHO holding back user satisfaction and adoption of SharePoint.
Yes MS forums and Stack and other sites are great resources, but sometimes it is like hunting for the proverbial needle. I think we can do better in bringing the together the top 100 fixes to shortcomings. Here is a suggestion for one way to address this:
I’d like to see the community develop a knowledge base of guidance of easy to apply standard config and customizations to address well known shortcomings. We could start by picking the top 10, or 50 or 100. Post this online at SharePoint Community or some well known SP collaboration site.
Drive the “solutions” gallery based on community input voting for top pain points and recommended / preferred solutions.
If many of us pitch in just an hour or two of advice, this could be a great resource.
What do you think?
I’m afraid this would become akin to any number of existing systems, like StackExchange (which is an FAQ vs proper forum), Microsoft’s Curah, TechNet Wiki, etc. What would make this unique?
