I’ve seen or heard the following about using and managing SharePoint sites. Please let me know if anything should be corrected:

It takes nine clicks and one moment of typing to add someone to a SharePoint site.

1. Click People and Groups
2. Click New
3. Click Add Users
4. Click Address Book icon
5. Type name in Find textbox
6. Click Search icon
7. Click name in resultset
8. Click Add button
9. Click OK button
10. Click another OK button

I’m tired just reading that. To be fair, users experience something similar in some of the default templates in Lotus Quickr, but I know that we’re working on reducing the number of clicks.

In Lotus Connections Activities (which, of course, does not do everything a SharePoint teamsite does), it takes three clicks and some typing:

1. Click Add Members
2. Type a name (as you type, matches from the LDAP appear dynamically)
3. Click name in resultset
4. Click OK

Restoring a teamsite that has gone down requires the restoration of the entire SharePoint instance’s database first.

All the data and files are stored in the SQL Server database as a BLOB. Even a simple document. If a teamsite goes down for any reason, you must first restore the SQL Server database for the entire SharePoint instance, then extract the content for the teamsite you want to restore, then create a new teamsite, and then re-deploy that site with the extracted content.

I’ve only personally experienced adding a user, but not restoring a site, so corrections are welcome, if necessary.

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