SharePoint SMS is a great tool to notify users or employees through mobile SMS. In many cases employees can’t access the SharePoint Portal or the email so alerting employees using SMS is the only solution to notify all employees wherever they are.

Configuring SharePoint SMS procedure needs two main things:

• The root certificate for the service provider
• Configure the mobile account

Note: mobile account can be configured on the farm level or on web application level; in this walkthrough we will cover only the farm level configuration.

Import Root Certificate

Unfortunately this option is not available in SharePoint Central Administration site and the only way to import and configure the root certificate is by using our friend “PowerShell”

1. Open SharePoint 2010 Management Shell from the start menu
2. In PowerShell, type ($rootcert = Get-PfxCertificate “Certificate Path”) to get the certificate path
3. And now we need to create a trusted root authority by typing the following command
   (New-SPTrustedRootAuthority -Name “Name” -Certificate $rootcert) where Name is the name of the trusted root authority

Note: this must be done before starting configuring the mobile account

Configure the mobile account

1. Open SharePoint Central Administration site
2. From the main page click System Settings or from the left navigation
3. Under “E-Mail and Text Messages (SMS)” heading, click “Configure mobile account”
4. In “Text Message (SMS) Service Settings” section, type the HTTPS URL, User Name and Password that given from your service provider.
5. Click “Test Service” button to make sure that your configuration is working fine

Download SharePoint SMS Configuration Guide

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