Microsoft SharePoint Reviews

by Zzamuluss

On the surface it’s a clean, attractive looking piece of UI design but has little to no actual interactive features. It’s not possible to upload files, nor view them from MicrosoftSharePoint . It’s a glorified file index. It leans heavily on other apps for basic functionality and beyond the first screen of each tab the interface is so badly laid out that half the time I can’t tell where I am or how I got there, or how to get back without quitting.

Make this what it should be: a file manager and viewer. OneDrive with advanced file handing tools and an intranet browser.

by Hoytraptor

It’s almost like the Microsoft engineers push out O365 updates and go back to using Google around the office. Straight down the line Microsoft is making enough progress to keep us hanging on, but more often than not the apps are clunky, the functionality is slow, unstable, and ill conceived. MicrosoftSharePoint really doesn’t do anything to add Sharepoint features for iOS. Some with Team, Planner, and OneDrive (although that is the best by a long shot).

Microsoft should hire someone that is an expert in Evernote that knows all the ways that app is lighter, faster, and more functional than OneNote on every platform. Please, make these apps work for users that want you to succeed. We’re invested in Microsoft, we’re support these tools around the office, and they’re either too illogical for beginners or too clunky for advanced users.

by Hoochalaffa The Great

In a lot of cases, everything that can be done from a web browser can’t be done in an app. I’d at least like to see parity to the mobile web browser experience within sharepoint and then something to make MicrosoftSharePoint appealing. At this time, MicrosoftSharePoint doesn’t serve anything that a mobile web browser doesn’t already do better.

Sharepoint as a product has been great, just this mobile app doesn’t seem to bring much to the table that can’t be done better from Safari or another mobile browser. I basically use MicrosoftSharePoint to avoid logging in with MFA.

From edge, if you browse Sharepoint with the desktop version, you get a lot of the posting and editing power you normally get on desktop on a web browser.

by Karmic02

Update: was able to reinstall MicrosoftSharePoint today but still being kicked out on the sign in page like other users are reporting. Please please fix this.

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The SP app has been unstable at best, but since the recent “update” it has gotten even worse. For a few weeks I have not been able to log into my company O365 account. Recently I tried deleting MicrosoftSharePoint to reinstall it and even thought it disappeared from my iPad, when I come to MicrosoftSharePoint Store to reinstall it again it still shows as on my iPad. I don’t have the option to download, only to “open”. Please fix MicrosoftSharePoint, so many of us rely on SharePoint for everyday work.

by Mr Jaam

I’m an electrician and I use my iPad the update cads that my company uses to wire houses. Just over the last two days of updates all of the things I was using to make changes are gone. Is there any way you guys can fix this.

You asked for more information. Before the update there was tab that would drop down and I would pick the pen thing and that would drop down a list of things I could to my cad, like installing text or I could write on the cad like a pen. This is now gone after the update. It’s putting me in a real bind right now as I’m in the middle of 3 projects that needs this program. Can you guys please fix this.

by Miss_Abled.

I lost my pricey Office 365+++ highest tier account along with at least five other paid for accounts. No support number. When I call customer support could care less. Stolen domain(s) and accounts. Loss of important and private information. Not okay. Email support is ridiculous, it is NOT the 1990’s. Whom can I contact in the USA via phone who speaks fluent English to help? Guessing nobody. Thanks to whomever took the very little bit of money I had and continues to abuse their personal gains. No excuses.

Microsoft = No Support + MANY compromised account issues

by Thomas_Praxis

My experience is that when I open a site in the SharePoint mobile app, publishing pages do not appear for some sites but they do on others. After comparing the differences between sites that do and don’t, it appears to me that the common thread is that if a site has sub sites, then pages do not appear. If the site does not have sub sites, then the pages do appear. It’s frustrating because we have spent time building responsive mobile friendly pages that work great in a web browser, but they aren’t available in the mobile app.

by Digghappy

Yay an update! Maybe this will fix the utter crap calendar view!

Nope, still a mostly worthless app.

One of the worst apps for productivity; calendars are especially uncooperative. Doesn’t open any calendar on my phone. Tried the website and it’s just as bad. The only way to properly see a calendar is to use a computer. If my work didn’t use Microsoft, I would ditch MicrosoftSharePoint and never return. I have no idea how Microsoft stays in business when they pump out such unfriendly rubbish. Not a fan of Google but it’s miles better than this software and it’s free.

by Gilamath

When I want to access most things I use SharePoint for, rather than give me anything like a mobile experience, MicrosoftSharePoint just serves as a sort of browser to show me a poorly optimized site. This would be okay, but the issue is that the site itself is hard to navigate and downright clunky. I’ll try to tap a button and suddenly the keyboard pops up on its own and I’m typing invisible letters when I was trying to click on a drop-down menu. Very odd, makes the whole app frustrating to use. I’ve never been the biggest fan of Microsoft’s app ui, but at least it’s functional and not too buggy. Please devote some more attention to this potentially very useful app! Make it easier to navigate, and easier to find things I’m looking for. Maybe add a first-time user tutorial like most similar apps do. At the very least, make MicrosoftSharePoint an app, not a proxy for websites!

by ColoITguy

The mobile app for Sharepoint is missing some very basic functionality. First, it doesn’t work as a stand-alone app: it always wants to open OneDrive for Business to view a file. Why? Why do I have to install two apps just to view a document in the Sharepoint app?

The other major missing part is the ability to handle document library views. We build views to filter as well as to streamline navigation. But MicrosoftSharePoint doesn’t show you views and display document libraries with all of their columns/metadata. It just shows you a “pile” of documents and doesn’t look like the same view you see in the web version. While I expect some differences, the tablet apps should be very similar to the web experience.

Hoping that Microsoft makes viewing document libraries better very soon. And eliminates OneDrive for Business as a part of viewing and navigating.

by ThomasS 94

We’ve been using SharePoint to track COVID symptom reports and for managers to monitor their team’s submissions. Unfortunately the latest update to MicrosoftSharePoint has broken the use of views when lists are accessed through a link. If a link to a filtered view is used, it will only show the master view (even after I disabled mobile access for it) with no navigation bar to change the view. We found that uninstalling MicrosoftSharePoint and opening links through Safari works fine. These kinds of inconsistencies have always existed but now it is critical that the process work for our organization’s health and safety. It’s not a good day when the mobile browser version of a product is better than MicrosoftSharePoint .

by BDBDBD

The SharePoint and related Outlook apps are decent means of accessing information in SharePoint. However, the absolute refusal of Microsoft to allow IOS apps to view SharePoint calendars makes the Office 365 for Business process useless in my opinion.

SharePoint group calendars are a vital part of making SharePoint useful to most organizations, yet there is no way to view those calendars on an IOS device.

I contacted Microsoft Business Support a few months ago and was told, after five days of back and forth, that this is "by design". Really?

The concept is great and for viewing basic information in the news feed or most files, MicrosoftSharePoint works relatively well. But c'mon Microsoft - in 2019 I should be able to use a group calendar on all my devices!

by DragonsWing

It has been some times since I used The sharepoint mobile app but so far this version seems to flow and work very well. My only suggestion so far is that when I need to upload several files to something like a calendar event, it would be nice if you could select multiple files to upload instead of having to do it one at a time.

by Jared010101010

I had to remove my personal account (personal domain, using office 365 small business web only version to host email) from the device because it would keep asking me to log in and interfering with my work Office 365 enterprise account. MicrosoftSharePoint works well if you have only one account, and maybe if you have multiple enterprise accounts it could be ok too.

by Shacker

** Updated **

Well, Microsoft responded to this review and kudos to them for doing so. They promised a fix in an upcoming release and again - they stuck to their word. The issue is resolved now and I’m upping this back up to four stars.

Thanks for listening, Microsoft :-)

*****

So, at some point in time, there was an update to this application and now the keyboard won’t pop up when trying to do a search on a share point site.

This basically breaks the entire app and defeats the point of it. It doesn’t work on iPad or iPhone with iOS 13.

I get that Microsoft isn’t crazy about Apple or iOS but then why not just pull all applications off of MicrosoftSharePoint Store instead of creating junk like this?

by 0987654321234567890987654321

I use this SharePoint extensively to manage a series of community sites that I run for clients. Unfortunately, while the site works perfectly through a browser, the comments section at the bottom of my sites cannot be seen through the mobile app. Until that’s fixed, I can’t recommend my clients use the mobile app, which seems like a missed opportunity.

by RahulMoh

Team any update on this? Should I be able to use the url schema ms-SharePoint:// for deep linking to pages?

Overall my experience with MicrosoftSharePoint has been awesome. But every time we had to do the search and find the site. Is there any way I could deep link the direct site to open in MicrosoftSharePoint through a web clip or clicking through the direct email link of the site? If yes that could possibly avoid some additional clicks... please let me know if it’s doable?

by Heck No!!!

Update 1: I now use the sharepoint app as a viewer. I enjoy the recent update of being able to create folders. It is about time. Can we also get more editing features for our sites instead of going through the browser?? This will truly make MicrosoftSharePoint better.

It is about time the Sharepoint team made MicrosoftSharePoint useful. It made absolutely no sense with what they had before. Needing two apps just to use one partially? Seriously whoever came up with that idea needs to be fired. You should have always been able to view files within the native app. Again, now you can use MicrosoftSharePoint . It would be great if they added editing features to MicrosoftSharePoint . Do that and MicrosoftSharePoint will become what it should have been all this time.

by Askthecableguy

This application does not function I’ve entered in all of the data that is needed and I’m constantly getting the message stating “something went wrong.” The share point link works because I’m using it in a browser but I’m not able to use it with the application.

by Mac OS X 10.9 User

Update: the team fixed the issue and now the home link works! Back to enjoying the functionality and on-the-go access to our team site and documents.

by Kenny Winfield

On the surface it’s a clean, attractive looking piece of UI design but has little to no actual interactive features. It’s not possible to upload files, nor view them from MicrosoftSharePoint . It’s a glorified file index. It leans heavily on other apps for basic functionality and beyond the first screen of each tab the interface is so badly laid out that half the time I can’t tell where I am or how I got there, or how to get back without quitting.

Make this what it should be: a file manager and viewer. OneDrive with advanced file handing tools and an intranet browser.

by Writergirlx22

Awful. I cannot browse files that have been shared to me, they have to have been saved. I’m not going to save literally 100s of files individually. Not only that, but when I go to sharepoint on my computer, there’s no way to “save” the files that have been shared to me! I can only see the files in my “recents”, and again, I’m dealing with 100s of files, of which I do not use all of them on a daily basis. Did any thought go into this, or was it just thrown together without much consideration of usability?

by Brent Hawthorne

So much functionality doesn’t work. Things which work in Safari, but not in MicrosoftSharePoint , like the PowerPoint file viewer, and embedded Stream video.
The often poor handling of whether to show a site home page and the define navigation. Really, why would users want to see a list of all the site Lists over the built out navigation?
Get really tired of telling users “here’s how you get MicrosoftSharePoint to show you the view you’re used to”