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Mobile Access: brief discussion
Written by: Margriet Bruggeman, Nikander Bruggeman.
May 1, 2010
Mobile Access: brief discussion
Accessing SharePoint via a mobile device has been enhanced in several ways. First off, end users accessing SharePoint via a mobile device browser are detected automatically and redirected to a mobile page. End users can request the external URL of a SharePoint 2010 site via e-mail. End users can receive alerts in the form of instant messages sent to their mobile devices. The mobile version of the end user's personal site allows them to update the current online status, track colleagues' activitities, view RSS feeds, view the profile pages of other colleagues, view a list of colleagues and their online status. The web part framework has been updated so that it includes a mobile web part framework that allows you to build web parts that render differently on mobile pages. End users are now able to access a wide range of item types, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents (via document viewers for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that are available out-of-the-box), view virtual lists (database tables that appear as lists on SharePoint pages), wiki pages, mobile web parts, thumbnails of pictures in a picture library, and view their personal calendar. End users can also lookup people, switch between list views, and filter list items. SharePoint 2010 supports shortcuts that provide one-button navigation for mobile users.