Recently I stumbled upon various sites that are built on SharePoint 2013. All those sites have the same problem. The SharePoint plugin that those web sites try to load is only useful for collaboration but not for public facing web sites.
Origin of the message
This message comes from a client side JavaScript and tries to load the presence information. To avoid this message the following lines of code needs to be added to the master page or via a JavaScript file.
function ProcessImn() {} function ProcessImnMarkers() {}
The code to request the plugin won’t be executed anymore. The visitor can enjoy the web site instead of concentration on the source of the error message.
Using SharePoint from MacOSX? Use Safari. This is because if Office and Lync are installed on MacOS special web extensions will be installed to support working with SharePoint better.
Additional information:
- What are ProcessImn() and ProcessImnMarkers() functions in SharePoint
- Message in the Information bar in Internet Explorer 7 when you browse to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site or to a SharePoint Server 2007 site: “The Web site wants to run the following add-on: ‘Name ActiveX Control'”
- Plan browser support in SharePoint 2013
- Plan Browser support in SharePoint 2010
Hey Stefan,
Great Stuff, didn’t knew about that! I hope you disabled it on sp24conf already :).
Not yet but I will cross post it this evening 😉
You can also replace only EnsureIMNControl with a function that returns null