This document discusses enabling mobile access to SharePoint sites. It covers Microsoft's vision for combining software and internet services across devices. It then discusses the out-of-the-box mobile features of SharePoint, challenges of the default mobile view for internet sites, and options for customizing pages and using HTML5 to improve the mobile experience. Key points covered include disabling the mobile redirect feature, browser support for HTML5, and limitations of using HTML5 with SharePoint.

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2. Agenda
Microsoft Vision
Why Mobile SharePoint?
OOB Features
Customization for Internet
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3. Microsoft® Vision
Experiences that combine the magic of software
with the power of Internet services across the
devices
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4. Why Mobile SharePoint?
• Access Application Stores & Marketplaces
• Work from home
• SharePoint Will Be One of the Early Requests
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5. Top Mobile Applications
• Top five native business applications for
smartphones and tablets among mobile
employees:
–Note-taking (47%)
–Contract/contact management (39%)
–Office suites (33%)
–Social media for work (30%)
–Web conferencing (25%)
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6. Market Shares Q3/2011
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7. SharePoint OOB device capabilities
• Webpart pages
• Document and Picture libraries
• Lists, Blogs and Wikis
• Search
• Mysite
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8. SharePoint Mobile features
• Mobile views, which display a view of SharePoint sites that
is optimized for mobile devices
• The ability to view Microsoft Office Word, Excel and
PowerPoint documents in mobile browsers, which requires
that Office Web Apps be installed
• Mobile search experience for finding people, contact
information, SharePoint content, and data
• Mobile My Sites for staying in touch with colleagues
• The ability to view reports and scorecards on iPad devices
that use iOS 5 Safari browsers; for more information, see
Viewing reports and scorecards on Apple iPad devices.
• Mobile alerts, which enable users to subscribe to Short
Message Service (SMS) alerts, which are sent to users'
mobile devices when a SharePoint list or item is changed
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9. Mobile Browsers support
• Internet Explorer on Windows Phone 7, Windows
Mobile 6, 6.1, and 6.5
• Safari 3 and Safari 4 on iPhone 3G and iPhone
3GS and Safari 4 on iPhone 4
• BlackBerry Browser 4.2, 4.3, and 4.7
• Nokia Web Browser for S60 (3.x, 5.0)
• NetFront Browser 3.4, 3.5
• Opera Mobile 8.65, 9.5, Opera Mini 4.2, Opera
Mobile for S60, Opera Mobile for Symbian UIQ,
Opera Mobile for Windows Mobile
• Openwave 6.2, 7.0
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10. SharePoint mobile-user challenges
• A much more focused interface is required
• No more generic New-View-Edit SharePoint
list
pages – all with the same “generic” menus.
• Have the exact interface needed by your
mobile users to perform their business
activities.
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11. Avoid SharePoint Mobile View
for Internet Sites
• Doesn’t Allow Anonymous Access
• Look and feel is not displayed
• Navigation structure and content pages not
available
• Search is not available
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12. How to Allow Anonymous Access
• Disable ViewFormPagesLockDown feature
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13. Default Mobile view
• Good for Collaboration sites
• Bad for Publishing Internet sites
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14. Accessibility for Internet sites
Out of the Box Features
• Using Mobile view(Not
recommended)
• Standard view
Custom Solution
• Custom Implementation
• HTML5 and CSS3
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15. Using Mobile View
• Add userAgent specific to the device in the
Browser definition file
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16. Using Standard view
Options for disabling Mobile redirection
1. Disable-SPFeature -Identity MobilityRedirect
-Url http://yoursite
2. Mobile device false in the Web.Config
3. Mobile device false in the Compat.Browser
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17. Mobile Page Customization
1. Customizing the out of the box mobile home pages
2. Creating mobile adapters for out of the box web
parts
3. Create custom field rendering controls for mobile
pages
4. Use SharePoint variations along with custom
master pages and CSS for mobile devices
5. Custom ASP.NET application that pulls content from
SharePoint 2010
6. Use a 3rd party solution to assist in the creation of
SharePoint 2010 mobile sites
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18. HTML5 Page view
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19. current support for HTML5
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20. HTML5 Mobile Browser Support
Mobile platforms with A-grade browsers:
• Apple iOS 3+
• Android 2.1+
• BlackBerry 6+
• Windows Phone 7.5 ‚Mango
Those represent 95% of US internet traffic from mobile devices.
They supporting features like:
• Web fonts
• Geolocation API
• Offline web applications
• Web SQL database
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21. Enable HTML5 for SharePoint
• Alter your master page
Change document type to:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
• Remove forced IE 8 rendering
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
• Add a new Content Editor webpart on the page
where you want the magic of HTML 5 to be
displayed
Put your HTML 5 code into the HTML Source window
that appears, click OK
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22. HTML5 + SharePoint: Limitations
• The page won’t validate as proper HTML5
code. (SharePoint outputs content as XHTML
1.0 natively.)
• contenteditable not supported. (Editor)
• Ribbon positioning will fail.
• Out-of-the-box SharePoint master pages need
to be adjusted.
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