[BBLISA] What does SharePoint break for non windows users?

[Aaron Macks]

I can't speak to Sharepoint, but from the base o365, these are the Mac
issues I have seen:
* Exchange/outlook - Works fine with Apple Mail.app, iCal and Address
Book.  There are some slight oddities about looking up resources in
iCal, but that may be specific to our AD tree
* Skype for Business (formerly Lync) - Horrible.  The client is trash,
both unstable and unpleasant to use.  There seem to be some serious
flaws in the underlying protocol, we often get "oops message was not
delivered" several hours after message seemed to have been sent
* OneDrive for Business - this is NOT their usual dropbox-clone, but
essentially a pre-configured sharepoint site.  Not at all useful for
moving files around since there's no non-windows client support

Aaron

On 8/31/15 1:21 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Paul Beltrani wrote:
>> We have an IT vendor that's trying to convince our CFO to move to
>> Office365/SharePoint. I get why they're proposing it. They're a
>> Microsoft only consultant and it's the only tool in their box.  Also,
>> they stand to make some big bucks in professional services to set it
>> all up.
>>
>> However, they're steam-rolling over the objections of a large number
>> of more modern users who have been using Macs, Linux and Google Apps
>> for Business for years.
>>
>> Does anyone have recent experience with SharePoint/Office365 using a
>> client on any OS other than windows?  I would very much like to know
>> what breaks and/or causes difficulty for Mac and Linux users.   If
>> Exchange is any example, they'll claim it's cross platform (i.e. OWA)
>> but in practice you get limited functionality unless you're running
>> Windows.
>>
>>   -- Paul Beltrani
> 
> 

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