Disable the standard SharePoint mobile view

The standard SharePoint mobile view is kinda useless for internet facing sites, as it requires the user is authorized.

SharePoint detects the user agent of the browser and displays the mobile view in case of a mobile browser.

To disable this, you have two options:

• Disable it in the web.config file
• Disable it in the compat.browser file in the App_Browsers directory

I chose to disable it manually in the web.config (quick and dirty).

To do so add the following markup to the configuration/system.web node:

    <browserCaps>

      <result type="System.Web.Mobile.MobileCapabilities, System.Web.Mobile, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"/>

      <filter>isMobileDevice=false</filter>

    </browserCaps>

See How to disable mobile view in SharePoint 2010 for a more thorough explination of the matter.