SharePoint Customer Service and Support
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VINCENTWU
Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Local vendor-supported training, configurations, and gap analysis when we moved to the cloud solution. Even with a lot of customization, the local vendor could align business processes to mapping specifications.
View full review »We don't get direct support from Microsoft; we get direct support from a local partner. But we've been very satisfied with the support we've received.
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Sam Scott
IT Manager at The Ventoulis Institute for Local Journalism
Anytime I had a technical issue, their technical support has been pretty good. I haven't had too many technical issues though, but if I do, I just research it.
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March 2024
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The technical support team takes a long time to reply. However, I don't have any problem with it, as I can understand the complexities of the work.
View full review »The technical support is inadequate, and this appears to be a common experience shared by many online.
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reviewer1527261
Lead Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The technical support is good. There are different channels based on the priority. We have a premium subscription, so we get solutions within a day.
View full review »We do most of the support for our clients, but I do know that on very odd occasions, which was a few years ago and doesn't happen as much nowadays because it is more stable, when we have logged support calls with Microsoft, they have always been great. Over the last few years, their support has certainly improved from 14 years ago when support was difficult. I'd rate them a nine out of ten.
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Andy Sworan
VP, CRS Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Trying to get technical support from Microsoft is always challenging. It seems large Fortune 1000 companies can get support.
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Customer Service:
Our SharePoint 2013 platform is hosted at HP and they manage services for us. HP support is getting better just as of the past few weeks. They do not seem to have a great handle on SP2013 social however.
Technical Support:HP has not been great but we've really brought the issues to light over the past few weeks so they are stepping up their game.
View full review »We have opened Microsoft support tickets. The learning materials are good for all the solutions from Microsoft, they have multiple videos and documentation available.
View full review »I cannot comment as I simply use Google to find answers for technical issues.
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Chaan Beard
Senior Data Center Solutions Architect at ChaanBeard.com
Outstanding support on SharePoint, in particular from Microsoft.
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BillWatterson
CEO l Founder at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
I haven't personally contacted the technical support for SharePoint. It's our support team who contacts them.
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Customer Service:
The customer service I would rate a 3.5 out of 5 (5 being highest); responsive, timely, proactive.
Technical Support:The tech support I would rate a 3.5 out of 5 (5 being highest); responsive, strategic, proactive and precise.
View full review »Technical support is excellent.
View full review »Technical support with SharePoint is very good, very easy and includes support for multiple languages. It can be opened by several channels.
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Ram Chenna
Enterprise Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft has the best customer service and support both on web, online, on calls, emails and if you are one of those partners it becomes all the way easy to get the support needed.
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Cecil Rupp
Works at Command Results, LLC.
he Microsoft reps were always helpful; although they were not always up to speed with the latest offerings and capabilities from Microsoft. Persistence pays off thought. I usually eventually got the answers to my questions.
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Lewin Wanzer
SharePoint Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Microsoft has great support for this product, as well as the SharePoint user community, where there are sites with information you can search from any search engine. Microsoft also has technical support pages that give you insights to installation, configuration and troubleshooting the product. You can also call 24/7 and get support from technicians from all aspects the product uses, such as SQL Server, Visual Studio, SharePoint Designer, PowerPivot and other integrations. There are also many third-party solutions out there to help with all aspects of the product from functionality, usability, 508 compliance, BLOB storage, backup and recovery, and a host of other areas in this version of the software.
View full review »Technical support was very good, very responsive and professional.
View full review »I generally avoid using Microsoft or Microsoft partner support where possible. Unless you are paying for their top-level consultants (which is frightfully expensive), you're often better off just looking things up on the internet and bookmarking the most helpful sites. In situations where support is being provided by internal staff, the results have been variable.
View full review »As it is internal, there is some knowledge that they are unaware of which makes it necessary for me to go check with third party sites (such as wikis) for answers.
View full review »I have never used Microsoft technical support for SharePoint in particular. However, Microsoft support is very good.
View full review »Technical support was not as good as expected. Sometimes request took upwards of three business days.
View full review »Technical support is perfect; nothing to complain about. Our market is special and they have minimal experience in special market segments, so they had a learning curve as well.
View full review »The level of technical support from Microsoft is very little to poor.
View full review »I have not used any technical support.
View full review »I have little experience contacting Microsoft technical support in relation to SharePoint, as we have not experienced any issues that would require their intervention.
View full review »Technical support is excellent.
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MichaelSoliman
Owner at Alopex ONE UG
I have been using the commercial technical support and they're always professional. It's not cheap, but they are always professional. So if there's problems to be solved, Microsoft tops off as excellent.
View full review »The technical support is good.
View full review »Technical support is average.
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director194919
Director, Systems Management & MIS Operations at a university with 201-500 employees
From Microsoft, technical support is very good – but rarely needed.
View full review »Most of the technical support has come from SME's and internal developers.
View full review »At a previous company, Sonepar, we were supported by VX company, and at my current organization, Canon Europe, by Capgemini.
View full review »The main burden of technical support is on Microsoft partners, who implemented the particular solution. If customers want extra support from Microsoft, it is possible I think, but only if they have Software Assurance or an Enterprise Agreement. Even if a customer has one of these, they still mostly use Microsoft Partners for consulting, maintenance, or new projects.
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SysMan2876
System Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Technical support is very good.
View full review »I would give technical support a rating of 3/5. We had some small issues and called MS tech support, but they were only able to help us 60% of the time before we fixed it ourselves.
View full review »I would rate the technical support at 8/10. I had very few technical support needs but they answer correctly when required.
View full review »Microsoft provided excellent support.
View full review »We received excellent technical support. We have no complaints there.
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Customer Service:
It's poor, and if you want Microsoft support on SharePoint you have to hire Microsoft Consulting Services.
Technical Support:It's poor, and if you want Microsoft support on SharePoint you have to hire Microsoft Consulting Services.
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Customer Service:
Microsoft doesn't offer support for SharePoint unless you purchase the option. There are also 3rd party solutions for this. Support for SharePoint is minimal at best on its own. You will need support so your best bet is to purchase some type of support package through the vendor you purchase it from.
Technical Support:See the customer service section above.
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MichaelSoliman
Owner at Alopex ONE UG
Technical support is extremely well developed with Microsoft. It's just that you have to pay for it, so it is not for someone without Software Assurance.
Technical support is done by our vendor, not directly from Microsoft. My vendor was good on supporting SharePoint.
View full review »The technical support level is practically nil.
View full review »The technical support related to Office 365 in general was good, but we have faced some issues related to the SharePoint support. We have received different opinions (some were contradictory) from different support agents.
View full review »As this is a Microsoft product, it can be difficult to obtain direct support. That being said, there is a thriving partner community around this product.
View full review »I would rate the technical support a 7/10, i.e., by using the internal support teams with various level of knowledge.
View full review »Never had to use technical support from Microsoft for this product.
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Wissam H
Change Management Consultant at a analyst firm with self employed
Technical support is bad, as the support is for all other Microsoft products.
View full review »Technical support is good.
View full review »Microsoft provides both online and phone support. Phone support depends on the plan you are subscribed to.
View full review »Microsoft’s support is much too expensive and too complicated. We are not using their support at all. We are doing everything internally the best we can.
View full review »N/A. I am not a system admin for our SharePoint instances, so I don't contact MS support for SharePoint issues.
View full review »Technical support is 5 out of 10; it is complex and must all work.
View full review »Technical support is good.
View full review »I believe most of our external support comes from a consultant and from a user point of view, I am satisfied as I have yet to have a question/issue that could not be resolved and I have not had many questions or issues.
View full review »The technical support is very good.
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Customer Service:
The customer service is very good.
Technical Support:Technical support is really good; fast responses and good resolutions within the standard included support.
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Sunny Rajpal
Senior SharePoint Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Technical support from MS is great, especially in the cloud area.
View full review »Technical support is poor. Microsoft makes it tough to get quality support.
View full review »Fortunately, we did not encounter major issues, but support has been generally good.
View full review »I would rate the technical support level 9/10.
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VeyselOzdemir
Managing Director at Ictnet Limited
Partner was not good. They did not have so much experience.
View full review »I have never used Microsoft technical support for SharePoint in particular, but Microsoft support is very good.
View full review »We have never required support.
View full review »The quality of technical support depended on the support contract and severity of the issue. An enterprise level contract allows us to raise Priority 1 cases which are addressed on a 24/7 basis. Most issues were resolved promptly.
Customer Service: The level of customer service could be better, but it all depends on the person in the other side.Technical Support: The level of technical support could be better, but it all depends on the person in the other side.
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reviewer1451235
IT business analysis, development and governance at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The support system for SharePoint works pretty well. We had a complicated situation about the reasoning why tenants and users are limited in terms of functionality, and the escalation and resolving of that issue, of that situation, went pretty fast, even for experimental features. It was quite straightforward to get access to experimental features, or find out why this access is limited, then fix it. I'm happy with the technical support for SharePoint.
View full review »Support is deficient. We depend on local vendors to get access to support and most of the issues we presented took more time to resolve that we wanted. It is not a platform for running business-critical applications.
View full review »Being a Microsoft product that is widely used around the world, the technical support is easily available.
The only problem is when there is any customization done to the default SharePoint tool.
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Salvador Sibrian
IT Solutions Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have not yet had a need to contact tech support.
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Kumar_Rajesh
Vice President & Head Technology Transition at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I would rate Microsoft technical support as a six out of 10. They are just okay.
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Caressa Naidoo
Technical Writer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We have not engaged with technical support from Microsoft at this time. We deal directly with in-house technical support. We will definitely be using external technical support from Microsoft when moving over to the Standard or Enterprise Edition.
View full review »I rate technical support 3.5/5.
View full review »I have not got a chance to make use of technical support for any issues.
View full review »Most of time we got support from forum and that is good enough.
View full review »The solution is a strategic product for Microsoft, and the technical support is very good.
View full review »It's standard MS-quality support. We got the help level we expected as an MS Gold partner.
View full review »The support is the worst. It is bad when Microsoft support does not even know what to do and you have to tell them. Also, they take too long to solve a problem.
View full review »In Brazil and India, I thought technical support was really poor. In my case, my tickets were transferred to international support. They weren’t able to help me.
View full review »We haven't issued any tickets to Microsoft support because we have dedicated SharePoint admins.
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JulioYzaguirre
Information Technology Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We have support with Microsoft, we pay for support for every year. The support is okay.
View full review »Our technical support is all in-house, so I can’t really supply a meaningful response.
I have found a wealth of support information (on SharePoint blogs and forums) which has helped me troubleshoot a variety of issues.
View full review »Technical support rates a 3.5/5.
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Customer Service: okTechnical Support: ok
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KM
reviewer907167
Cloud Solution Architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The product and technical support teams are really good.
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Customer Service: Customer service is very good.Technical Support: Technical support is very good.
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SharePoint
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about SharePoint. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,578 professionals have used our research since 2012.