In most cases, when I design and build a custom branded solution for a SharePoint site, the customer wants the site to render the same for mobile devices. Instead, SharePoint redirects the user to a different layout.
This request is quite common across the world wide web. Most sites you visit on your computer will render the same on your mobile device, whether Android, iPhone, iPad, etc. The few sites which do have different layouts for mobile sites do so either to limit functionality or simplify a really busy site.
Out of the box, SharePoint will redirect your mobile users to the mobile version of the site, which is boring and doesn’t contain web parts. It is basically a list of lists, libraries and sites which have been configured for mobile access.
Blah. This site’s home page has 3 web parts which are pertinent to my users, and they can’t get to them here. Not an ideal setup. So instead, I’d like them to get to my full SharePoint site.
To disable SharePoint from redirecting users to the mobile version, there is a hidden feature you can disable using PowerShell. It’s quite simple, and is below.
disable-spfeature -identity MobilityRedirect -url http://addressofsite
The mobile site remains available at http://addressofsite/m, but your mobile users will have the same full experience (less browser limitations) as your desktop users.
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I figures it out. I needed to ad/?mobile=0 to the end of the link.
gah, that’s odd. I’ll have to give it a try again. Thanks for the info!
If we try this and don’t like the result, how can we re-enable the feature?
Great question. Simply run enable-spfeature with the same options
disable-spfeature -identity MobilityRedirect -url http://addressofsiteDoess an IIS reset need to be done?
An IISRESET shouldn’t be necessary as it is just a feature deactivation. Maybe the page is cached on your mobile device?
Cleared all the history on the iPhone. Is there somewhere else I need to clear it on the iPhone?