Great, hopefully on the next version you can get back to the basics like making the basic setup not as horribly complicated as it is today: I mean… setting up authentication O-M-G. You make the user base (Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos, NTLM), you make the federation server (ADFS) and not that it matters but you also make the host and database server. At nearly 7 grand a license I would expect a flawless set up: I'm talking give me some checkboxes for ADFS, for the AD, for Azure so I can mix and match what runs where and have it federate and tokenize and certify do whatever it has to, and for seven grand, throw in the competition as well, AWS, PingFederate, G Suite, Okta, anything with over a dozen employees, there. I'm sure with our cloud magic any identity provider should be easy to find. Make us remember what exactly are we paying for 'cause the setup nightmare nor the constant discard of brands/technologies and thus investment (Office comms, Lync, Skype, Teams--seriously!?), isn't worth it. Just the other day, on brand new, well, it was newer then, SharePoint 2019 I spend forever writing on a Wiki I thought it's be trivial to localize in to another language but the docu and the process were so frustrating that I ended up storing the server in favor of a DokuWiki instance, occupying a few megabytes to serve the site. Theming it to carry the color scheme I had in SharePoint was a matter of changing some hex colors, all in its included GUI. 5-7 minutes finding how it's done plus installation, another 5-7 to copy/paste the content from SharePoint. That sort of efficiency and user friendliness that the free software delivers should be first and foremost in Enterprise-grade software. ...and no, Azure is not the answer for everything. Forget the next version, fingers crossed for maintenance updates. I know now that we have our farm online again, we'll keep an eye on updates, because it's true that SharePoint does feel more…"airy". Much more pleasant.
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