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Error when trying to auto create Personal Site (My Site > My Content)

I have created a custom master page for my sites and am using feature stapling to associate the master page with the personal site once it is provisioned (when a user first clicks the My SIte > My ...
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User Profile Application service was inaccessible - ProfilePropertyService.svc has exceeded the allotted timeout

Yesterday, we suffered with the Global outage on our SharePoint 2010 farm as the "User Profile Service Application" was inaccessible during those hours. Exception: 01/13/2012 08:41:20.16 OWSTIMER.EXE ...
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Who can view private documents in My Site?

When users create their "My Site", they can store some documents in their private space. Is there any other user who can view it? or work around (maybe like going to central administration and adding ...
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Programmatically create MySites for Users with FBA

I am trying to create MySites for users programmatically but I am receiving the following error: My Site creation failure for user '' for site URL 'http://goaccel-app2:1000/sites/mysites/personal/'. ...
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SharePoint 2010 - access information on MySite Host from other site

How can you access or create a list on a My Site host (i.e. a custom WebPart on main.example.com accessing information that is hosted on my.example.com)? I want to have a store for user settings that ...
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Sharepoint 2010 Search core result

Is there any way we can link the "Author" field that is displayed in "search core results" (not People Core Search Results) to their corresponding "My Site"? I tried using the managed property to ...
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Deleting user properties on feature disable

I'm making the creating of custom user properties automatically, so when the feature is activated the few user profiles properties will be created, how to do that i found on msdn ...
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Searching using custom properties on mysite

I have a question about using a search to search on custom properties, properties that i've added myself to profile page. So what i have now a user profile page with some standart properties like ...
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How do i get the url for the mysite host from powershell?

I need the url of the mysite in SharePoint 2010 server. In my farm i only have one MySite host (and one corresponding user profile service) configured. I need the information on one of the farm ...
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Does anyone know if it's possible to display the assistant in both the assistant field and the direct reports list for a manager (org chart)?

Does anyone know if it's possible to display the assistant in both the assistant field and the direct reports list for a manager (in the Organizational Browser chart). Manager-A has three direct ...
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move my site profile information from one server to another

I used central administration site collection backup to back up a My Site, and then used PowerShell restore-spsite to restore it on another server. All of the content moved, but the profile ...
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How to rename “My Home” tab in My sites

We want to rename the "My Home" tab so it says "My Stuff"(!). We're using Sharepoint 2007 - does anyone know how to do this? Using a javascript hack at the moment; but we really want the change to be ...
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Hiding Distribution lists from Sharepoint Membership List

On the "My site" feature of MOSS 2007 there is a "memberships" Web part that shows the distribution list that the user is a member of. This is picking up several groups that we would rather not be ...
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Migrated My Profile link still pointing to the old MOSS server

Migrated a MOSS content DB to a brand new farm. The My Sites also were on the same content DB. Then the SSP also was migrated over. However, the My Profile link is not binding to the restored My Sites ...
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Editing My Site in SharePoint Designer

When I try to edit My Site in SharePoint Designer I get the following: So I have gone into Central Admin. Gone to my web application and have checked the SharePoint Designer section All looks ...
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Remove/Add items to MySite globalnavigation

How do I control which items gets shown and which doesn't in the MySite globalnavigation? Currently there are the standard ones (My Site, My newsfeed, My content, My profile), and I'd like to remove ...
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Extend web app hosting my sites

I have the following scenario (SP2010): web app 1 SharePoint - 80 hosting site collections with default zone url contoso.dummy.com web app 2 SharePoint - 8080 hosting my sites with default zone url ...
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Disable or remove all links to MySite?

We've just enabled MySite in my organization and all the author links etc. (user-related links) points towards their respective MySite. Is it possible to disable the links or remove them completely?
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SharePoint 2010 & MySites & Remove 'Create Blog' link

I have a SharePoint Server 2010 instance that has UPS setup and over 1000 end users using MySites. Is there a way to disable the 'Create Blog' link? Currently I have already deployed a custom master ...
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MySites giving a Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage as the central admin server name has been added incorrectly

Currently I have a front end web server. When I hit http://frontendserver1:3000 I get the Stay Connected page appear. Clicking on My Profile (in the image) works fine. Clicking on My Colleagues ...
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Programmatically generate MySites for all users

I have a console application with the following piece of code: SPServiceContext serviceContext = SPServiceContext.GetContext(portalSite); UserProfileManager profileManager = new ...
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Filtering List for “created by” of currently displayed user

Hey i'm trying to filter a list for the currently displayed user in the mysites. There is a list "projects" with all projects in it. If i navigate to some co-workers profile in the mysites he has a ...
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Access My Content using ecmascript client OM

Is is possible to access the current user's "My site" and "My Content" using the ecmascript client OM? Specifically I'm looking to create a custom list, that is specific to each user, and wanted to ...
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Adding discussion threads and like button to MySites newsfeed

It seems that Mysites 2010 falls well short of the mark when it comes to the newsfeed. No out-of-box ability to hit reply, to answer a question, or even to 'like' an existing comment. This is a real ...
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Can't Search MySites User profiles in 2010

I am having a frustrating issue with trying to access people profiles in SharePoint 2010 Enterprise. I continue to get an error using a particular content access account. All other SharePoint urls ...
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Sharepoint 2010 MySites url token back to main site

So here is the scenario I have two SP2010 applications http://intranet.mycompany.org and http://my.mycompany.org. I need to have a link in mysites that will take users back to ...
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How to add an ActivityEvent to all users' newsfeed with the ActivityFeedGatherer in SharePoint 2010 MySites

I posted this on StackOverflow but figure it may actually get more help from this site as it is picking up quite a bit now. ...
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Extending the ConsolidatedNewsFeedWebPart Newsfeed Web Part in order to render custom Activity Events in SharePoint 2010 MySites

The title says it all and I imagine this question will evolve as more people provide input. I will try to update with the current answer and/or working code for all to use. The question is about ...
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SSP Database Upgraded from 2007 to 2010, My Links automatically deleted shortly after

I follow the steps here to upgrade a 2007 SSP database to 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263299.aspx#SSP After the upgrade everything appears successful and users can see their ...
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How to brand MySites in SharePoint 2010?

How can you brand MySites in SharePoint 2010 so that all the pages look the same, including personal sites the users create? Changing 'mysite.master' only has an effect on some of the pages, not the ...
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Can't set up my sites in SharePoint 2010

I'd like to run MySite in my sharepoint 2010 instance. I'm following the article from TechNet from here and here for creating Profile Service Application. I'm creating profile service application and ...
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SharePoint 2010: MySites: Add custom tabs to My Profile

I want to have custom tabs to My Profile of mysites (where you have overview, organization,etc). I was able to add these tabs by going into Site Settings->Look and Feel-> Navigation-> Add Heading, and ...
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Organization Browser in SharePoint 2010 empty unless used on My Site

I have been trying to get the organization browser web part to work on a publishing site and I can't get the web part to display any users. When I look at the organization browser web part on the my ...
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How do I keep my My Sites from prompting users for credentials?

Currently on my SharePoint 2010 install the My Sites section is roped off on a sub-domain (port 80) of the main site collection. Whenever anyone opens the main site it automatically detects their ...
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How to enable MySites?

I am unable to see MySites page on my SP2010 environment. I am on FBA, is this the reason that MySites is not shown? Please let me know what to do?
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Setting up MySite on single machine without AD?

We are developing on single machine without AD role, because we thought that since we are going to use ADFS, we don't need it. Our project requires that we set up MySite for users. I'm struggling with ...
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Disable a Specific News Feed Activity Using the Client Object Model

Hello and thanks for reading. I've been working with the out-of-box SharePoint 2010 News Feed portion of My Sites, and I am planning to deploy it to many users. I am building a console application ...
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Customization of activity feed for new colleagues

Is it possible to customize the activity feed to the MySite NewsFeed when a new colleague is added? For example, change the domain\userid text to display the DisplayName instead? Thanks, Tom
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How does the “Content” tab of “my site” works?

In "my site", under the "Content" tab, there is the "SharePoint documents" webpart. How does this webpart works ? I'm wondering if I can reuse this webpart to show global task lists or, at least, ...
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How do I customize the MySite page to not show empty optional fields?

I need to customize the MySite page in such a way that it should display the phone number label only if it has a value. Otherwise the phone number label should not display on the MySite page. Any ...
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Custom My Site Tab shoud have same template like My Site - Organisation Tab or My Site - Overview Tab

I created a custom Tab ("CV") in the My Site Area. The Link shows to "../my/CV.aspx" - i also created a new Website with the specific directory but i'm trying to get the right template there. The ...
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Is there a “Who Follows me” Web Part?

I need a WebPart similar to Colleagues WebPart, but to return which users have added me as a Colleague. Does it already exist? Or, how can I develop it? I'm using SharePoint 2010.
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exception thrown if user property retrieved

I'm retrieving different custom and default user properties from the my sites profile in a webpart. The Problem is, if i'm trying to retrieve profile information which hasn't been set yet the webpart ...
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mysites web application at domain.com/mysites?

I'd like to create a mysites web application at http://www.domain.com/mysites. This is so that mysites always end up in the only database tied to that web application. However when you create an ...
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How can I get list of users which have documents stored in My Sites?

How can I get list of users which have their own documents stored in My Sites (MOSS 2007)? Or even better, all their documents together with names? It dosen't matter if it will be via script or GUI. I ...
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Sharepoint Mysite Documents

Relative Sharepoint newby here so be gentle! :-) We have had a request to try to hide the documents section on user's my site pages. I have been trawling through pages and pages of sharepoint stuff ...
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Accessing Custom User Profile Property Value

With the Code below i'm able to get access to a custom profile property which i created ("Qualifications"). Somehow i dont get it how to get access to the stored information for the custom property ...
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Multi value person picker in MOSS user profiles

I'd like to add a property to the user profile (mysites) that allows the user to pick multiple users from the people picker control. It looks like the Person control only accepts 1 value by default. ...
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Custom People Search URL not working in multiple locations

SharePoint 2010. When in my sites (profiles) the find people box goes to /SearchCenter/Pages/PeopleResults.aspx. I have a custom search based on a web part (searches our HR database not sharepoint ...
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Different links under 'My Links' and 'My Site - My Links' for different web applications

I work with Sharepoint 2007 and have the following problem: I have two web applications (foo.domain.com and bar.domain.com) each with one site collection. When I browse with IE through ...