I’ve been having a really interesting discussion via e-mail this week with John Cox and he’s been posting the dialogue to his blog post: iPhone opens up enterprise SharePoint sites. Consultant Steve Bell has found that he has been able to get full WSS access on sites he is developing for a client from the Safari browser on his iPhone. He writes about this on his blog and shows a really cool picture of a fully rendered WSS site on his iPhone.
Visually stunning and apparently, fully functional! The user experience is beautiful and may provide an answer to a SharePoint usage barrier I hear from some clients. We tried it today at an enterprise client running MOSS 2007 in a secure corporate environment and, as expected, couldn’t authenticate to the network from the personal iPhone that one employee had. We actually got all the way to the MOSS authentication prompt from an employee’s corporate provided BlackBerry but failed at the MOSS site authentication. I don’t know if the iPhone and the Safari browser would have been able to get to MOSS if the iPhone was “embraced” by corporate IT, but from a user adoption perspective, the experience on the iPhone could really help get road warrior executives make the paradigm shift to SharePoint.
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