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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Applications on Windows Phone 7

By : Todd Spatafore
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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Applications on Windows Phone 7

By: Todd Spatafore

Overview of this book

<p>Microsoft Windows Phone 7 is a reinvention of the Windows Mobile platform and improves productivity by taking a fresh approach to the most common Smartphone business usage scenarios such as e-mail, calendar, contacts, and collaboration. Microsoft SharePoint is a Web technology-based server that can be used to build portals, collaboration sites, and also content management sites.</p> <p>Microsoft Windows Phone 7 allows you to integrate with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and create enterprise-ready websites and applications that access SharePoint Server on Windows Phone 7.</p> <p>The book starts by providing an overview of the out-of-the-box features of Windows Phone 7 for enterprises then moves on to an overview of the web browser that is included on the phone, Internet Explorer Mobile, covering the improvements found over the desktop version of Internet Explorer 7 and the limitations of the browser. The book then dives deep into topics such as Windows Phone 7 Web Development, building SharePoint Sites for Windows Phone 7, building SharePoint Pages for Windows Phone 7, and SharePoint Communities amongst others.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Applications on Windows Phone 7
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
5
Customizing SharePoint Communities for Windows Phone 7

Office Message Service and Short Message Service


SharePoint has the ability to send SMS messages to cell phones using a connector named Office Message Service (OMS). When an alert is fired, SharePoint can send an SMS message instead of an e-mail. This is decided upon by the person setting the alert.

Using OMS is just a suggestion though, as most of the actual development work has already been done. We just need to configure it and it'll run. The underlying framework is in place where we could replace it with a solution, such as Twilio (http://www.twilio.com/) instead. Although all of these systems have costs associated with them, the development teams working on the SharePoint system may have experience with one of these other messaging systems. That is a good reason to go with an alternative solution, such as Twilio.