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    • coliverC
      coliver @momurda
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      @momurda said in Free SharePoint?:

      @scottalanmiller That's really great. Now my boss wont ask me to make a SP server if i tell him itll cost thousands of dollars. And i will be happy.

      He'll start asking you about Alfresco instead.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @coliver
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        @coliver said in Free SharePoint?:

        Sharepoint Foundation 2013 was the last "free" version of Sharepoint. Although it had some major limitations associated with it. You can still download it here.

        https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42039

        The free versions always did. Did they get worse?

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @momurda
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          @momurda said in Free SharePoint?:

          @scottalanmiller That's really great. Now my boss wont ask me to make a SP server if i tell him itll cost thousands of dollars. And i will be happy.

          Yup, the last, highly limited free version was FOUR years ago. At this point, even that one is old enough that it sounds like a bad idea for a new deployment.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @coliver
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            @coliver said in Free SharePoint?:

            @momurda said in Free SharePoint?:

            @scottalanmiller That's really great. Now my boss wont ask me to make a SP server if i tell him itll cost thousands of dollars. And i will be happy.

            He'll start asking you about Alfresco instead.

            Way better 🙂

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            • coliverC
              coliver @scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              @scottalanmiller said in Free SharePoint?:

              @coliver said in Free SharePoint?:

              Sharepoint Foundation 2013 was the last "free" version of Sharepoint. Although it had some major limitations associated with it. You can still download it here.

              https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42039

              The free versions always did. Did they get worse?

              Nope still the same stringent limitations just wanted to make mention of it.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @coliver
                last edited by

                @coliver said in Free SharePoint?:

                @scottalanmiller said in Free SharePoint?:

                @coliver said in Free SharePoint?:

                Sharepoint Foundation 2013 was the last "free" version of Sharepoint. Although it had some major limitations associated with it. You can still download it here.

                https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42039

                The free versions always did. Did they get worse?

                Nope still the same stringent limitations just wanted to make mention of it.

                LOL, okay. Is there a user limit? I don't think that there ever was.

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                • coliverC
                  coliver @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller said in Free SharePoint?:

                  @coliver said in Free SharePoint?:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Free SharePoint?:

                  @coliver said in Free SharePoint?:

                  Sharepoint Foundation 2013 was the last "free" version of Sharepoint. Although it had some major limitations associated with it. You can still download it here.

                  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42039

                  The free versions always did. Did they get worse?

                  Nope still the same stringent limitations just wanted to make mention of it.

                  LOL, okay. Is there a user limit? I don't think that there ever was.

                  No, no user limits. But there a limits on pretty much every feature of Sharepoint. Even searching gets hit.

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                    Shuey
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                    I wonder if this would work as a replacement?
                    https://www.bitrix24.com/prices/

                    We could roll with the free version, but our users couldn't access it externally. Their versions that support external access though are only $99/month.

                    I'm a little leery about going down an alternate road though for fear that the staff will freak out from such a drastic change (although the alternative of not having SharePoint at all could be just as freaky, lol).

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                    • coliverC
                      coliver @Shuey
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                      @Shuey Look at Alfresco. https://www.alfresco.com/

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @coliver
                        last edited by

                        @coliver said in Free SharePoint?:

                        @Shuey Look at Alfresco. https://www.alfresco.com/

                        That's pretty much the standard answer.

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                          Carnival Boy @scottalanmiller
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                          @scottalanmiller said in Free SharePoint?:

                          @momurda said in Free SharePoint?:

                          @scottalanmiller That's really great. Now my boss wont ask me to make a SP server if i tell him itll cost thousands of dollars. And i will be happy.

                          Yup, the last, highly limited free version was FOUR years ago. At this point, even that one is old enough that it sounds like a bad idea for a new deployment.

                          That's not that old. I don't think it deserves writing in upper case 🙂 It's under mainstream support until 2018. I'd be more concerned about still using SQL Server 2008 with it. Now that is old, and expensive to upgrade.

                          We're using 2013 Foundation. I've never ran into limitations that bother me, it's a great product. We are moving to Sharepoint Online in the next 12 months though. If you're used to free, and you don't use O365 already, the $60 per user per year may sting a bit, especially if you don't really need the extra features versus Foundation and you already have SQL Server on-premise.

                          I imagine that migrating a 250+ user Sharepoint server to Alfresco is a massive project. Good luck.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @Carnival Boy
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                            @Carnival-Boy said in Free SharePoint?:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Free SharePoint?:

                            @momurda said in Free SharePoint?:

                            @scottalanmiller That's really great. Now my boss wont ask me to make a SP server if i tell him itll cost thousands of dollars. And i will be happy.

                            Yup, the last, highly limited free version was FOUR years ago. At this point, even that one is old enough that it sounds like a bad idea for a new deployment.

                            That's not that old. I don't think it deserves writing in upper case 🙂 It's under mainstream support until 2018. I'd be more concerned about still using SQL Server 2008 with it. Now that is old, and expensive to upgrade.

                            We're using 2013 Foundation. I've never ran into limitations that bother me, it's a great product. We are moving to Sharepoint Online in the next 12 months though. If you're used to free, and you don't use O365 already, the $60 per user per year may sting a bit, especially if you don't really need the extra features versus Foundation and you already have SQL Server on-premise.

                            I imagine that migrating a 250+ user Sharepoint server to Alfresco is a massive project. Good luck.

                            Using something with six months of support left is.... questionable. Deploying something new that will be out of support before you are done installing it though.....

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
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                              Using 2013 still today with a plan to update seems just fine. Rolling it out now seems crazy. No support from day one. Dead product with no future. That'll be a major problem very quickly.

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                                Carnival Boy
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                                I'm not recommending it. Depends on the OP's circumstances. But you could probably get the whole thing, installed, migrated and live in a couple of hours (he says, having never actually done it). Sure, there's a massive element of kicking the can down the road by sticking with free Sharepoint, but sometimes kicking the can down the road is a good idea. Only sometimes though!

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                                • black3dynamiteB
                                  black3dynamite
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                                  Plone is another option to look at too.

                                  Bitnami offers a quick and easy way to install or test plone

                                  Bitnami offers a quick and easy way to install or test alfresco

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                                  • IRJI
                                    IRJ @Carnival Boy
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                                    @Carnival-Boy said in Free SharePoint?:

                                    I'm not recommending it. Depends on the OP's circumstances. But you could probably get the whole thing, installed, migrated and live in a couple of hours (he says, having never actually done it). Sure, there's a massive element of kicking the can down the road by sticking with free Sharepoint, but sometimes kicking the can down the road is a good idea. Only sometimes though!

                                    Getting the services installed is much different than it being ready for production. Even if you moved fast as hell on it, 3 months would be hard to achieve to get something like this in any actually useful production.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @Carnival Boy
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                                      @Carnival-Boy said in Free SharePoint?:

                                      I'm not recommending it. Depends on the OP's circumstances. But you could probably get the whole thing, installed, migrated and live in a couple of hours (he says, having never actually done it). Sure, there's a massive element of kicking the can down the road by sticking with free Sharepoint, but sometimes kicking the can down the road is a good idea. Only sometimes though!

                                      I mostly agree. Although in this case, the decision to kick that down the road in this way had the most value in 2013 and has diminished since then with it falling off a cliff in a few months. Totally basing current decisions on the past three years is a little like sunk cost thinking, but something made 2013 not useful until now - what would make it suddenly so valuable to change that decision at a time when the general value is plummeting.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @IRJ
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                                        @IRJ said in Free SharePoint?:

                                        @Carnival-Boy said in Free SharePoint?:

                                        I'm not recommending it. Depends on the OP's circumstances. But you could probably get the whole thing, installed, migrated and live in a couple of hours (he says, having never actually done it). Sure, there's a massive element of kicking the can down the road by sticking with free Sharepoint, but sometimes kicking the can down the road is a good idea. Only sometimes though!

                                        Getting the services installed is much different than it being ready for production. Even if you moved fast as hell on it, 3 months would be hard to achieve to get something like this in any actually useful production.

                                        True. That's very fast.

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                                          Shuey
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                                          I've been thinking a lot about this and have an idea:
                                          We've been using this server for the last 5 years without any support, and without any on-site staff who know how to manage it (other than the daily backups I do). So I'm considering two options:

                                          1. Perform a P2V of the server and host it in our existing VMware environment.
                                          2. Build a new virtual member server in our existing VMware environment and migrate the data from the existing WSS 3.0 server to the new VM (using the same versions of everything; Server 2008 R2, WSS 3.0 and SQL Server 2008).

                                          I'd prefer to go with option 1, but I've never virtualized a DC, so I'd like to hear some feedback on what you guys think of this and if there are any specifics I need to be aware of when virtualizing the existing DC.

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                                          • NerdyDadN
                                            NerdyDad @Shuey
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                                            @Shuey said in Free SharePoint?:

                                            I've been thinking a lot about this and have an idea:
                                            We've been using this server for the last 5 years without any support, and without any on-site staff who know how to manage it (other than the daily backups I do). So I'm considering two options:

                                            1. Perform a P2V of the server and host it in our existing VMware environment.
                                            2. Build a new virtual member server in our existing VMware environment and migrate the data from the existing WSS 3.0 server to the new VM (using the same versions of everything; Server 2008 R2, WSS 3.0 and SQL Server 2008).

                                            I'd prefer to go with option 1, but I've never virtualized a DC, so I'd like to hear some feedback on what you guys think of this and if there are any specifics I need to be aware of when virtualizing the existing DC.

                                            Virtualize is always highly recommended.

                                            The VMware P2V converter is kind of clunky but it works. You will have to put a client on the machine that you want to virtualize, make a few settings, tell it where you want it to go, and press start. Typically you want to shutdown the old one after it is done converting if you start up the virtual after completion.

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