Examining Mobile Administration for SharePoint Extranets

Mobile administration has been very limited in previous versions of SharePoint. In SharePoint 2010, mobile administration has been improved by supporting common mobile interfaces, making improvements to leverage mobile technologies such as SMS, and improving the support for accessing SharePoint websites across firewalls using SSL. Mobile views are enabled by default for most lists and libraries. Custom lists and libraries, and libraries that were created in a previous version of SharePoint (via upgrade), are not enabled by default. Some lists and libraries will contain views where a mobile view is not available, such as the datasheet view and the Gantt view.

In SharePoint 2010, users can enable email and SMS alerts on changes made in SharePoint lists, libraries, or items. For extranet SharePoint websites that are published across the firewall using SSL, administrators must specify a cross-firewall access zone. A cross-firewall access zone is used for generating proper external client and mobile URLs for mobile alert messages. This enables users to send an externally accessible URL from SharePoint by clicking the E-Mail a Link button on the Library Tools or List Tools on the Ribbon.

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To enable SMS alerts in the SharePoint farm, a mobile account for an SMS service must be configured. The mobile account to be configured via central administration or PowerShell. In Central Administration, to enable SMS with the same mobile account, click System Settings, and then under E-Mail and Text Messages (SMS), click Configure Mobile Account. In Central Administration, to enable SMS with the specific mobile accounts per web application, under the Application Management section, click Manage Web Applications. On the Web Applications page, choose the web application to configure. In General Settings on the Ribbon, click Mobile Account.

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