By: Bart Tubalinal
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February 19, 2012 at 4:42 PM
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Future updates to the series will only be posted to the new location.
Intro
This is part two of the first series of posts I’m writing on developing native mobile apps using the Windows Azure platform. In the first part, I covered the basic setup of my azure storage, I walked through the steps of building the iOS Windows Azure Toolkit and using it in a project, and I wrote the code to use the toolkit in my model classes for the SpeakEasy app, a fictitious
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By: Bart Tubalinal
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February 18, 2012 at 8:11 PMThis post has moved. New location
Future updates to the series will only be posted to the new location.
Intro
A few weeks ago, I posted a video and a follow-up blog on why I think using Windows Azure as a middle-tier or backend platform for mobile is compelling. Remaining on the topic of Azure and mobile, I wanted to write a series of blog posts that show you how to use various Azure services to build a native mobile app. Through this series, I’m going to build an iPhone app called SpeakE
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By: Bart Tubalinal
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February 2, 2012 at 8:56 PM
Today, I posted a video blog discussing why using Windows Azure as a mobile backend platform is an attractive option. I wanted to quickly summarize the contents of that video and also supplement it with some helpful links.
Summary
Backend platform selection is important because, unless you’re talking about the most trivial of apps, most mobile applications will have some need to connect to backend services and data. It’s important to select a platform that’s flexible, scalable to your app an
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By: Ali Rizwan
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October 17, 2011 at 4:37 PM
I wanted to share my experience with the new features of Mobile Entrée and how to leverage your existing Microsoft Business Intelligence investments as a starting point to building out the mobile platform. Mike Burger posted earlier regarding Mobile Entrée (found here). He stated the fact that it can integrate with SharePoint and render reports in Excel in the mobile browser. These are very compelling features in trying the solution out. I am impressed with the ability to finally share my E
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By: Bart Tubalinal
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October 14, 2011 at 12:43 AMThere is no denying that mobility is currently a hot topic. Staggering forecasts by various analysts have made capitalizing on the mobile applications market a top priority for many organizations’ CIOs and CTOs. However, before diving headfirst into mobility projects, it is important to consider various factors in order to define a clear strategy that addresses the many opportunities and challenges that mobility presents for your organization.
During Q4 of 2010, smartphone sales surpassed globa
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By: Seth Broweleit
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August 25, 2011 at 10:39 PM
You want your iPad users to be able to scroll your SharePoint 2010 site with one finger.
It can be done with the two finger swipe but it doesn't work as well and visitors may not know that. The solution involves using CSS to disable the - ribbon positioning system - so that the ribbon is no longer stuck at the top of the browser. But at the same time you don't want the ribbon positioning disabled for browsers on the desktop. Because that is where the content owners are likely to do their edit
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By: Seth Broweleit
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August 17, 2011 at 6:00 PM
SharePoint 2010 top nav problem on touch devices
You may have noticed that the out of the box SP2010 site nav is not quite usable on a touch screen device like an iPad. The top nav is a list of links, to put it simply. When the links are hovered on, with a mouse, a fly-out menu appears. Since touch devices do not have "hover" the fly-out menu does not appear until the item is clicked. But a click takes you to the target URL of the link so you are unable to choose a link from the fly
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By: Michael Tolly
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June 27, 2011 at 10:11 AMThis past Thursday, I attended a Mobile Meetup hosted by Solstice Consulting and I felt it was very engaging and interactive. Many topics were covered ranging from mobile UX/UI to cross-platform development to marketing an application. The meetup was run in an Open Space Technology format. This enabled there to be many topics discussed in smaller groups that could delve more deeply into a single topic rather than the discussion barely covering a broader variety of topics. As someone who has
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By: Seth Broweleit
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February 28, 2011 at 4:36 PM There are a few options for disabling the SharePoint Mobile Redirection System. Disabling the system means that browsers will not be redirected to a mobile version of the site created by SharePoint by default. This is not about how to customize the mobile view that only mobile devices would see. Modify the webconfig file Add three lines of code that set all browsers to not be redirected This option is deployable through a WSP Does not allow for browsers to be handled individually File is
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By: Seth Broweleit
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December 8, 2010 at 4:53 PMAt the jQuery conference in Boston (Oct 16th) John Resig announced that jQuery Mobile (Alpha) was released. I would say Mobile was the teams main focus during the conference. Some other main topics that were covered in the presentations were Testing, and Code Organization. At a high level, jQuery mobile is a UI Framework that helps developers create sites that target all mobile devices. Built with progressive-enhancement, the framework allows you to create one web app that works on all popular s
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By: Jeff Schertz
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January 28, 2009 at 11:42 PM
There are are couple issues related to System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 that I’ve addresses in a recent deployment I’ve been meaning to blog about, but was waiting on a couple responses back from Microsoft for confirmation. One is related to the externally-published Enrollment Server certificate and the other issue tackles the problem of using a Windows 2008 Certificate Authority.
Enrollment Server Certificate
The SCMDM deployment documentation states that all certificates should be
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By: Jeff Schertz
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December 18, 2008 at 8:46 AM
During a recent deployment of SCMDM I ran into a little snag while publishing the internal IIS web site on the Enrollment Server. Because my client was using an ISA Server 2006 Array I needed to get the exact same certificate on both array nodes in order to configure the Listener correctly.
If you follow the technical article Configuring External and Internal Firewalls in Mobile Device Manager then the requested certificate will not be configured to allow exporting the private key. And beca
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By: Jeff Schertz
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November 17, 2008 at 1:50 PM
The TechNet documentation for SCMDM 2008 contains detailed steps for deploying each role, but the server prerequisites are a bitter scattered across the documentation and you really have to read through the entire document to understand how it all comes together. Although I highly recommend reading through all of the documentation, I’ve decided to put together a detailed list covering the installation of each component as is a certain order that should be used.
Assuming that most first-time
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