SharePoint Stability
It's very stable. We've rarely encountered any challenges, and Microsoft is quick to address any problems that do arise.
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Sam Scott
IT Manager at The Ventoulis Institute for Local Journalism
It is very stable. I haven't had any outages or any issues.
View full review »Compared to OneDrive, SharePoint has been a more stable product. Many times, the systems crash due to accidental sign-ups. Managing these crashes involved unlinking the files, sometimes causing them to be associated with personal accounts instead of the organization's email, leading to numerous challenges.
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March 2024
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I give SharePoint's stability an eight out of ten because of the mobile app integration issues.
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reviewer1527261
Lead Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The tool is very stable. I rate the stability a nine out of ten.
View full review »I haven't had any issues around that. It's all very stable once it's deployed.
View full review »We haven't had any issues with the tool’s stability.
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Andy Sworan
VP, CRS Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Stability issues are usually related to poor architecture planning, or solutions developed without a knowledge of how the tool works.
View full review »Stability, even after deployment three months ago, still seems to be an issue. Tagging does not always show up in trending hashtags immediately. When tagging and @mentions work is not consistent from place to place.
View full review »SharePoint Online is stable. We are using the out-of-box options only, and it has been stable.
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Sammy Githinji
Technical Manager at Rigor Systems Limited
I am satisfied with the tool’s stability. I rate the stability a ten out of ten.
View full review »Mostly, we have not encountered any stability issues.
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PrashanThilakawardena
Global consultant at LankaClear
The product is stable.
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Chaan Beard
Senior Data Center Solutions Architect at ChaanBeard.com
I have never encountered stability issues.
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BillWatterson
CEO l Founder at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
The stability of SharePoint needs improvement, because once you start to get a large amount of data, it becomes very unwieldy, and it takes a long time to index. There are much better products for content management and knowledge management, when compared to SharePoint.
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View full review »I did not have any stability issues.
View full review »The stability of SharePoint is very good, amazing.
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Ram Chenna
Enterprise Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
For a company like ours with around 25,000 users, this product is good and quite stable. We need to explore what happens when the data increases beyond 1 million or 10 million records. At that point, we may need to look again at scalability and what the product can support. They have support for vertical or horizontal scaling. They have a feature where you can increase server hardware, but that needs to be checked. We have two people assisting with maintenance.
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Cecil Rupp
Works at Command Results, LLC.
Again, no problems on our applications.
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Lewin Wanzer
SharePoint Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
In some very rare cases, you might see that Windows updates can interrupt your service, but Microsoft is very quick to fix the issue. Other than that, it’s the users’ empowerment that is in play in this environment overall. You are providing a platform that empowers the users of the product to manage themselves. For example, instead of a call to the help desk, you have what are known as site collection administrators and owners. These power users manage the security of the site. So, instead of having a call to the help desk, the group’s power user can manage these calls themselves, which takes a load off of the help desk. This is one of many examples.
We did have stability issues in the old versions and there were too many hotfixes, in the 2013 version. It’s more stable now, but it can still be better.
View full review »I have not encountered stability issues with either the on-premise or cloud hosted versions of the product.
View full review »I have not encountered any stability issues.
View full review »SharePoint is a stable solution.
View full review »Some stability issues have been found with the database. From the infrastructure side, most people use dedicated databases for SharePoint so a simple reboot usually fixes the communication issues.
View full review »We did not have any stability issues.
View full review »I have not encountered any stability issues, but prior infrastructure planning is a must. When systems are well defined, all setup and integration runs smoothly.
View full review »The stability of the system is fine, so long as you have a well prepared support team for your Windows offerings.
View full review »I have encountered stability issues when connecting to TFS 2013 for reporting.
View full review »There have been no stability issues other than with user profile synchronization. The only times we have had SharePoint offline in the last 10 years were when we had a server issue in 2010 and when we have taken it offline for maintenance.
View full review »Any issues regarding stability are generally caused by a lack of governance from planning of the underlying infrastructure through ongoing operations. With best practices in rolling out any application from an infrastructure planning and operations perspective, stability is not a significant issue.
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MichaelSoliman
Owner at Alopex ONE UG
It is very stable if you know what you are doing and make some precautions. Microsoft lists these precautions, but these precautions are not automatized. It would be nice to have precautions such as: disk size, backup checks, or whatever automized that can be integrated with the SCCM team foundations server.
View full review »When used with large data, SharePoint may produce performance degradation; that requires some optimization and tweaks.
View full review »We have not encountered any stability issues.
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director194919
Director, Systems Management & MIS Operations at a university with 201-500 employees
I have not encountered any stability issues; very reliable.
View full review »Most instances of SharePoint are stable. I have rarely experienced instability. Usually, it’s the management of user names and groups that results in problems.
View full review »We had issues with stability when we implemented it at a previous company. We had issues where the system was down for a while.
View full review »Stability is always a big issue, but not from the view of SharePoint itself. It’s more of an issue from the architecture and infrastructure point of view. Many customers implement SharePoint on virtual machines with dynamic memory allocation. VMs have slow disk access speeds that are below recommended specifications.
In these situations, there are always issues with stability, especially regarding search services, etc. For example, if you installed SharePoint on a virtual machine with dynamic memory, it could destroy the farm without any possibility of repairing it. You will then have to reinstall the whole farm. This would really be a big problem in the case of a farm with 10 virtual servers.
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ManagerIT306285
Manager, IT Automation and Technical Services at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
It is VERY stable if you follow the recommended settings and read the SharePoint blogs.
View full review »We have not encountered any stability issues. The version 10.2 we use is very stable.
View full review »Occasionally, the SQL database backend would have issues to address regarding maintenance.
View full review »We did not encounter any stability issues. In most cases, instability is caused by client or vendor implementation errors.
View full review »Occasional Office365 SharePoint outages have been noted.
View full review »For the most part, SharePoint was stable based upon the set up that we have. When installing the R2 update, it did end up creating issues with the .NET code and eliminated some of the extensions. For example, the Excel extension that is used to view Excel spreadsheets within SharePoint was either damaged or deleted. This has caused issues with exporting to and from SharePoint and hasn't been corrected.
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MichaelSoliman
Owner at Alopex ONE UG
It is stable after the hotfixes, or service pack has been applied. This has been the case for each release since 2003. If you take the release directly to the customer then it is almost always a big mess for them during implementation.
View full review »When the number of documents in a library grows too high, there will be performance issues. There is no easy way to archive files uploaded to SharePoint unless you have extra budget to get 3rd party solutions like AvePoint.
View full review »The only issue that we have is when we are creating a new site from templates. During such a situation, many of the sub-components do not work or have to be completely reconfigured once created. This makes the creation of a new project based on our project site template very painful.
View full review »There is a limitation on the number of files that can be uploaded.
View full review »I encountered no stability issues.
View full review »There were very few stability issues. The issues are usually related to problems with the related Microsoft stack such as Windows Server/ SQL/ IIS.
View full review »For the enterprise environment, I did not encounter any stability issues.
View full review »We did not have any stability issues.
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Wissam H
Change Management Consultant at a analyst firm with self employed
I definitely encounter stability issues, like all other Microsoft-related solutions.
View full review »We did not have any stability problems.
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Yatin Dalvi
Senior Industry Expert with 1,001-5,000 employees
I did not encounter any issues with stability.
View full review »The fact that it relies on the Internet and runs in a browser means it is bound to have performance issues.
View full review »We never had any stability issues. In fact, our system is quite simple. We only experienced downtime three times in six years. This was only due to a VM management problem with human resources.
View full review »I have not encountered any stability issues. SharePoint is a very stable platform, provided that it's installed on an equally stable server environment.
Occasionally, we come across strange server-level errors, but they are few and far between. Normal users almost never have problems, except for permission-based incidents.
View full review »I have run into problems with Microsoft updates killing my test machine for two months...
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Seniop9887
Director at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
It's going to last until Microsoft revokes the license on which it is built.
View full review »My personal observation is that if the implementations are done in the right way by following the recommended best practices and guidelines, the product works just fine.
To be clear, I am referring to all the underlying products (IIS, SQL Server) as well as to the O/S.
There have been genuine issues. However, we have used SharePoint and CU to address them.
View full review »I did not encounter any issues with stability.
View full review »At first, we encountered stability issues, but they have been ironed out and – knock on wood – we have been stable for a while. I believe our issue might have been related to sizing the resources properly, as we started small with the intention of growing as we developed more uses for the product.
View full review »The current version is very stable compared to versions 2007 and 2010.
View full review »We have had no issues with stability.
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Sunny Rajpal
Senior SharePoint Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I have not encountered any stability issues, as such.
View full review »The early RTP versions can be buggy. There are always challenges with patches, but the product has improved over time.
View full review »We have not really had stability issues, particularly in the 2013 version.
View full review »I have not encountered any stability issues. It is an excellent product if you don’t have to customize it too much.
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VeyselOzdemir
Managing Director at Ictnet Limited
Stability is OK.
View full review »Stability issues have been found with the database. From the infrastructure side, most people use dedicated databases for SharePoint so a simple reboot usually fixes the communication issues.
View full review »We have not encountered any stability issues.
View full review »With an on-premise, or even a hybrid model, local operations and platform teams are responsible for the uptime of the system. Most common issues are service halt, drive space management, and database corruption. All of this can be resolved easily with an Office 365 infrastructure migration.
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There are no issues with stability.
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reviewer1451235
IT business analysis, development and governance at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I find SharePoint to be stable. No complaints there.
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EntrprsA3456
Enterprise Architect Channels at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It is stable.
View full review »We have had difficulty with stability. The configuration and administration of SharePoint is complex. This resulted in incidents when changes to other products were made, like Active Directory or Exchange. Time consuming maintenance tasks are necessary, otherwise your SharePoint instance will become unstable.
View full review »I did not encounter any stability issues.
View full review »There were no major stability issues as such, but the user profile service stopped unexpectedly on a few occasions.
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Salvador Sibrian
IT Solutions Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is very stable. But, I think it depends on the infrastructure.
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Kumar_Rajesh
Vice President & Head Technology Transition at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It is very stability. I don't foresee any issues.
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Caressa Naidoo
Technical Writer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We have not experienced any serious issues regarding stability, except for the minor glitches with workflows. As previously mentioned, we are still on the Foundation version. However, I believe if SharePoint has been properly set up on a stable server, using proper governance and a strong infrastructure, we should not experience major issues with stability.
View full review »There were issues with a cumulative update for SharePoint.
View full review »No issues have been encountered in terms of stability.
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The solution appeared unstable at deployment but it's been more stable since then.
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The product is quite stable.
View full review »I did not encounter any issues with stability.
View full review »We did not have any stability problems.
View full review »Stability was usually good.
View full review »We had stability issues regarding the TFS integration.
View full review »We have spent some time reconfiguring the farm in order to overcome performance degradation.
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JulioYzaguirre
Information Technology Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Stability is okay. The performance is great.
View full review »We have had no stability issues that I am aware of.
View full review »We did not have stability issues.
View full review »I have not encountered that many stability issues.
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March 2024
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