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With the Mac users at Trek we’re going to start small and work our way out.

Annoyances/possible roadblocks aside, I still feel from a document and web content mgmt standpoint that there aren’t many tools that equal (or surpass) SharePoint’s power, but we have a long way to go before the Apple faithful jump-in head first. I’d be interested to hear what the hard-core Mac user’s opinion is and see if they would find these items to be small nuisances or major roadblocks to full-on adoption. For me, I found little things like the lack of Windows Explorer, PowerPivot support, and no support for dragging and dropping web parts to be mildly annoying. I know the workarounds and the tips and tricks to get the job done. Ultimately, I found the amount of ActiveX in SharePoint to be overwhelming. I have almost a decade of SharePoint experience. I have a great appreciation for Document Connection, and personally I think it’s better than SharePoint Workspace since it’s so scaled down.

SHAREPOINT ON A MAC FOR MAC

Microsoft has tried to make accommodations for Mac users. I now have a better understanding of the challenges Mac users have to deal with when viewing SharePoint. This one bullet point will be a non-issue for a good majority of you out there. I can’t even edit it in the Office Web App.

Editing PowerPivots – now while this may not be a SharePoint thing per se, it’s incredibly frustrating that I can’t edit PowerPivot workbooks.

File upload and copy, New Document, Slide Libraries – requires ActiveX control.

Web Parts can be moved using drag and drop on Pages. Users must click Edit on the Web Part, select Modify Web Part, and then select the zone from the Layout section of the Web Part properties page.

Drag and Drop Web Parts – Cannot be moved by using drag and drop on Web Part pages.

Datasheet View – requires an ActiveX control, which Macs do not support.Connect to Outlook, Connect to Office, and Sync to SharePoint Workspace– Outlook for Mac does not connect to SharePoint, at all Office does not connect to SharePoint, with a few slight exceptions SharePoint Workspace is not offered on Macs.Some may find this difficult to use long-term but I thought it was sufficient. OneNote – There is no native support for OneNote on a Mac however, you can edit OneNote’s in the Office Web App.Open with Explorer, Upload Multiple Documents – Office for Mac comes shipped with “Document Connection.” This little add-in will accomodate Explorer views (to some degree) and multiple uploads.

SHAREPOINT ON A MAC UPGRADE

Rich Text Editor – user must upgrade column type to Enhanced Text in order to customize content however, user may have ability to drop in html tags (have yet to test this).

SHAREPOINT ON A MAC PASSWORD

Safari (at least in my environment) does not prompt you when you have successfully saved your password to the keychain. Quite often Admins will tell you that FireFox is the ideal browser on Macs, and while I tend to agree, you’ll get an authentication prompt upon your first open of the site, something most users find insanely annoying.

SHAREPOINT ON A MAC HOW TO

Safari (with username and password stored in Keychain) – I outline how to accomplish this HERE.

Let’s start with the optimal configuration: From a user perspective the experience is the same, for the most part.

Overall there are some subtle, and not so subtle differences when viewing SharePoint on a Mac. You can see his browser support post HERE and his latest post about ActiveX HERE. While I’ve been busy working on my Mac all week, SharePoint Joel has posted two really good posts that pertain to SharePoint on a Mac namely ActiveX.