The setup is straightforward as it's deployed by the vendor or integrator. It took about three weeks to get it set up and running.

Alfresco offers two initial setup options: basic and advanced. If you're not comfortable with terms and concepts like ports, DNS, hostname, database etc, the basic setup will do all that for you and will set up Alfresco with defaults parameters.

A Zero Day guide is available through the official docs, which can help then configure Alfresco accordingly and in relation to each specific use case.

The advanced setup requires a little bit more knowledge, but then again, if you're installing Alfresco on your own, you should know what are you doing anyway. You'll most likely need both system admin and DBA to configure the server and the database properly. Other than that, the initial setup is not complex at all.

In the beginning, when I started out with Alfresco, it was quite a task as you need to know quite a lot of different areas to setup a proper Alfresco solution, you need to be familiar web server installation and configuration, certificate/https setup, LDAP. CIFS, WebDAV, application server tuning, database configuration, Kerberos etc. But these days we have guides for this, with clear steps making it easy to install the product and provide a robust solution.

You would spare yourself a lot of trouble by taking training courses on Alfresco. Check out courses on Udemy.

It is very easy to set up this product initially, since they provide you with a setup file along with two default options and a custom installation as well.

It is easy to set up, similar to SharePoint.

The installation is pretty much straightforward and for standard settings the installer is the best solution. However, if you decide to customize the product more, then the documentation explains all the steps very well.

The initial setup was straightforward, because Alfresco also provides a stack installer that includes the required supporting software.