As we all know that
SharePoint creates a very basic (ugly looking) default site for mobile devices.
When opening the site from any mobile browser, it automatically directs the
website to the respective mobile website which has /m appended to it.
My client did not wanted
the default mobile site to open within mobile devices as it gives a very untidy
look so they wanted to disable the redirect function. If you have similar
issues, follow the steps below to disable the redirection.
- Navigate to:
- C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\<yoursharepointsite>\App_Browsers\compat.browser
- Locate
- <userAgent match=”iPhone”>
- Now under <capabilities> tag, locate
- <capability name=”isMobileDevice” value=”true”/>
- Change this to false
- Now for Android, repeat the same thing and set the ismobileDevice attribute to false.
No need to reset the iis
or anything else. Just save the file and browse the site from iphone, you will
see the desktop site opening.
Also, I noticed that if
you create a backup copy of the file with any name within the folder, the site
breaks and doesn’t render. So make changes within the file and copy
it to some other location for a backup copy.
There is a
MobilityRedirect feature within the SPWeb which can be disabled to prevent the
redirection as well.
- Disable-SPFeature –Identity MobilityRedirect –Url <url>
Hope this helps someone
