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SharePoint 2010 Mobilityobile

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Agenda

Microsoft Vision

Why Mobile SharePoint?

OOB Features

Customization for Internet


Microsoft® Vision

Experiences that combine the magic of software with the power of Internet services across the devices

PCInternet

Devices Server


Why Mobile SharePoint?

• Access Application Stores & Marketplaces • Work from home• SharePoint Will Be One of the Early Requests


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%)


Market Shares Q3/2011


SharePoint OOB device capabilities

• Webpart pages• Document and Picture libraries• Lists, Blogs and Wikis• Search• Mysite


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


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


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.


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


How to Allow Anonymous Access

• Disable ViewFormPagesLockDown feature


Default Mobile view

• Good for Collaboration sites• Bad for Publishing Internet sites


Accessibility for Internet sites

Out of the Box Features• Using Mobile view(Not

recommended)• Standard view

Custom Solution• Custom Implementation• HTML5 and CSS3


Using Mobile View

• Add userAgent specific to the device in the Browser definition file


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

http://yoursite/

http://yoursite/


Mobile Page Customization

1. Customizing the out of the box mobile home pages2. Creating mobile adapters for out of the box web

parts3. Create custom field rendering controls for mobile

pages4. Use SharePoint variations along with custom master

pages and CSS for mobile devices5. Custom ASP.NET application that pulls content from

SharePoint 20106. Use a 3rd party solution to assist in the creation of

SharePoint 2010 mobile sites


HTML5 Page view


current support for HTML5


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


Enable HTML5 for SharePoint

• Alter your master pageChange 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 displayedPut your HTML 5 code into the HTML Source window that appears, click OK


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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