We have a SharePoint WSS site and some of our users on on the Mac OSX platform. Are there any tips or tricks to get a similar experience to Windows with document shares and calendars on the Mac?
Edit: Browsing a SharePoint WSS site on a Mac, whether using Firefox or Safari, has a very similar look and feel as it does on Windows IE. The similar experience I am looking for has to do with integrating the calendars, document shares, etc. into the desktop.
For example, with IE you can go to a calendar and select "Actions -> Connect to Outlook" and it will make the calendar visible and manageable from within Outlook.
Is there any way to get the Mac to work similarly?
Unfortunately, the "full" Sharepoint Experience is limited to running Internet Explorer 6/7 and Office 2007.
On the Mac, I recommend using Firefox (Camino?) which seems to work a bit better than Safari.
Edit: When you say "Similar experience", what exactly are you missing? I don't have any Mac here, but I was under the impression that Office 2008 will have a working integration with Sharepoint as well.
Office 2008 allows limited connectivity to MOSS. However there is no Mac OS browser yet that is completely compatible to MOSS.
I do have it on good authority the Microsoft Mac BU team is working with the MOSS team to see this changing in future versions of the platform, specifically around the Safari support.
ActiveX is used to enable the bridge between MOSS and Office, and as ActiveX is only on Windows, you will find that you cannot get the full experience if you do not use Windows as your OS.
Yes, Sharepoint looks to client installs of Office applications and Active X in order to fully integrate.
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I would like to develop Add-in for office Word for Mac (2011 and later). But I cannot find any manuals about Add-Ins development.
Can anybody know how to develop Add-Ins for Office for Mac?
It will be good if anybody suggest me link of Example. I have tried but didn't get any sample.
The good news is that you can use almost all the APIs documented here for MAC as well!
You also want to read this article about how to try your add-ins in MAC or iOS.
Finally make sure you are on the latest possible build! (15,22 as of right now).
Happy coding!!!
The process for building JavaScript add-ins for Mac is pretty much the same as building them for other platforms. There are some specific instructions for debugging on Mac.
However, Office Add-Ins for Mac are only supported starting with Office for Mac 2016 (and even then I believe it needs to be a recent update).
I have already enabled webclient service but i think I m missing something tht has to be done...
The client needs to run IE 32-bit and have a single recent Office 32-bit installed.
Mixed Office enviroments often seems to break the explorer view.
BTW should probably be asked on serveroverflow
How to fix this error in SharePoint:
"The list cannot be displayed in
Datasheet view. A datasheet component
compatible with Windows SharePoint
Services is not installed, your
browser does not support ActiveX
controls, or support for ActiveX
controls
It started to days ago, for apparently no reason. ActiveX is enabled on this site and I had everything working fine so far. Not sure what went wrong.
Thanks,
... from IE check out your Internet Options, and look under 'Programs'->'Manage Add-Ons'
When I had this problem it was because an add-on was missing or disabled... * thinks * "Microsoft Office List 12.0" or something.
I was getting the below in SharePoint 2010.
The Standard View of your list is being displayed because your browser
does not support running ActiveX controls.
Turns out the site (master page) was being rendered in IE9 mode and the datasheet supports only up to IE8.
The datasheet mode can be used temporarily by switching the Document mode and the User agent string both to IE 8, or permanently by using the meta tag X-UA-Compatible IE=8.
This is known issue and you have to install the hotfix provided by Microsoft.
The issue is addressed in the below specified link along with the URL for the hotfix.
http://www.himmeltech.com/blog/fix-for-datasheet-view-issue-error-in-sharepoint-2010/
Let me know whether the suggested solution fixes your issue
Please install below data connectivity component to resolve this issue.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23734
This link helped me and it worked fine. Our environment was Windows 7 64bit and MS office 64bit as well, after installing this connectivity tools, user had a option edit the data sheet view in sharepoint.
I ran into the same issue after updating to Office 365 but remaining with IE 11 and Sharepoint 2010.
Issue:
using a 64-bit version of Office with a 32-bit version of IE
Reference: Technet
Resolution: Installed 2007 Office System Driver: Data
Connectivity Components
Seems like a client/browser problem.. do you have Microsoft Office installed? Did you change security settings in Internet Explorer?
My environment is SP2010 enterprise and after trying several solutions, I realized that the user that could not see the views in Datasheet style was because did not have installed "Microsoft Access" that is required when you are using views in datasheet style. So the solution for me was to upgrade that specific user from Office Standard to Office Professional
For me, I performed the following and it worked for me:
Open Control Panel and open Programs and Features
Find your instance of Microsoft Office and select it
Click change at the top
On the dialog that comes up, click Add or Remove Features and then continue
Make sure Microsoft Access Web Datasheet Component is installed under Office Tools/Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Support
Even if it is showing as installed, click Continue.
Let everything install, close any office programs out, then try again
These steps worked for me.
I have started working on sharepoint. Other than playing around with the development sites in office I would also like to learn from home. I dont have MOSS 2007 server or Windows 2003 box to install MOSS.Are there are any public sharepoint sites (free or registered) where I can create and test out sites?
Download virtual PC from mirosoft
then run a sharepoint VPC from here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/bb738372.aspx or build your own one.
You can install MOSS or WSS (the baseline package) on Vista or Windows 7 but it's officially unsupported, however it works perfectly IMO.
See:
http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/bambooteamblog/archive/2008/05/21/how-to-install-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-sp1-on-vista-x64-x86.aspx
and download a 180-day trial version of WSS 3.0 from:
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ef93e453-75f1-45df-8c6f-4565e8549c2a
Additionally, remember that most of the technology in WSS is built on plain ASP.NET 2.0 (things like webparts work pretty much identically)
-Oisin
Microsoft provides Virtual Labs which hopefully will suffice. Apart from that the trials and virtual machines that others have mentioned are the only way.
MOSS costs in licensing (esp. for public web sites), server power and database storage. So it's not in many companies interest to provide a free test bed, really only Microsoft's.
I have a MacBook Pro, fairly new, intel based, 4G RAM. I may need to work on a Sharpoint project, so I'm assuming I'll need Visual Studio and Sharpoint Designer. Is using VMware an option, if so, what Microsoft OS should i use, and what general VMware settings should I use (RAM and disk size).
VMware Fusion is a good option.
As to Microsoft OSes for SharePoint development, you have two choices: Windows Server 2003/2008 or Windows 7.
I've been developing with a Windows Server 2003 VM for SharePoint for about a year. I'm still using Server 2003 because it matches our dev/qa/prod environments.
I would agree with the post above that VMWare is a good choice. As for what OS if your are doing true enterprise level SharePoint development then you will need 2003/2008 however you can run WSS on vista. As for using SharePoint designer I would avoid it for SharePoint 2007 development and instead focus on getting a solid solution structure defined and use some tools like WSPBuilder and your be off to a good start. If your doing SharePoint 2010 SharePoint designer has got a lot better and the new support in Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint is great.