Monday, February 15, 2010

SharePoint and Mobile?

NEW! SharePoint Workspace Mobile

Take your files on SharePoint offline on your phone with Microsoft SharePoint Workspace Mobile 2010! You can browse document libraries and lists right from your phone. As well you can open, edit and sync documents directly for viewing or editing in the various mobile office apps like Word 2010, Excel 2010, and PowerPoint2010, and sync to SharePoint 2010.
The coolest part is the ability to sync documents and folders to your windows mobile phone (6.5 and higher).
You’ll be impressed with Powerpoint’s 2010 presentation companion where you can advance slides from your phone with your blue tooth enabled phone.

With OneNote 2010 Mobile you can take notes, voice or text on your phone and sync to your Windows 7 PC with WinMo device center. Conversation view in Outlook 2010 mobile will be nice as well as the new company directory based searching UI.
The Top 10 Benefits of Office Mobile 2010 goes into more detail.

You can actually see in the diagram on the right of SharePoint Workspace 2010 Mobile the icon rich interface with the sync setup on folders and files.
As with the browser and search wars, it aint over till it’s over!

I remember a company meeting a few years ago where Ballmer asked the crowd, does anyone here use google? After explaining how google made money off of every search whether you clicked on the ads or not, and then explaining the advancements in MSN search now Bing.com and asked now who will use google. He then explained that it was an IQ question, and those that raised their hands failed that IQ question.
Mobile today in SharePoint 2007 compared with SharePoint 2010
As mentioned before there are built in mobile views with WSS 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007. In fact there’s actually a good explanation of how mobile views work with the blog template vs other templates on MSDN.

There is an entire node on Mobile development in SharePoint 2007 and new content for mobile development in SharePoint 2010 Jan Tielens introduces the topic of SharePoint 2007 mobile views in his post SharePoint 2007 on mobile devices.
See the mobile views for yourself. Essentially the easiest way to get at the riches of the mobile views for navigation.
WSS 3.0: http://www.sharepointjoel.com/_layouts/mobile/mbllists.aspx
Not only do you get a richer look and feel, you can see site further recursive navigation is included, a new filter for locating content in a large list to increase findability.
The scenarios are better served in the mobile experience. While it’s far from perfect, the simple mobile views have been cleaned up and redesigned to focus more on the lightweight browsing experience. You can even imagine the mobile views being used for remote employees to address bandwidth issues when working with SharePoint 2010.

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