an intranet user's personal site
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5answers
377 views
7
votes
1answer
630 views
Prompt My Site users to accept Terms of Use Agreement on first visit
Looking for a way to prompt every user to accept a "Terms of Use Agreement" on the first visit to their My Site. currently thinking of several approaches and looking for some feedback and other ...
6
votes
2answers
2k views
How do I add a custom control to the My Site person.aspx page?
I have created a server control and want to place it in the person.aspx page on the My Site however do not want to edit the page through SharePoint Designer but want to edit the file itself from the ...
6
votes
4answers
2k views
Avoid sending emails to manager while deleting My Site in Moss
I want to stop the functionality of sending email to the manager of user whose mysite is going to be deleted rather mysite cleanup activity if below things happened to user/user profile:
1) If he ...
6
votes
1answer
67 views
What is the My Site search experience in geographically distributed model?
I'm developing an architecture model for my company's global SharePoint footprint and have a question on the people search experience for a geographically distributed model. My plan right now is to ...
5
votes
2answers
815 views
Setting “contribute” permissions for blog comment lists
It appears as though Sharepoint 2010 OOB does not give Authenticated Users "contribute" permissions for users' blog comment lists. Authenticated Users only have the permission to read, which is not ...
4
votes
5answers
8k views
How does Membership show in Mysite - SharePoint 2010?
I am a member of site collection however membership tab does not show any information in my Mysite even after a week. I understood that SharePoint 2010 uses a timer job to collect the membership ...
4
votes
1answer
3k views
Newsfeed error - The operation failed because the server could not access the distributed cache
I've recently installed SharePoint 2013 RTM and on the newsfeed page the error "The operation failed because the server could not access the distributed cache." with no items are available in the ...
4
votes
1answer
1k views
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/'.
...
3
votes
2answers
220 views
Deleting Sharepoint Sites taking too much time
I am trying to delete few sites that have loads of sub-sites but its taking way too much time,
I tried to delete sites using "Content Structure" & tried to use this tool as well,
Tool for ...
3
votes
1answer
202 views
Listadded events on My Site omits Personal and Shared Documents creation
I want to have a feature which will change some settings on every list on My Site. Problem is i cant change settings for two main list: Shared and Personal Documents.
For testing I have web feature ...
3
votes
1answer
254 views
Can I sync user properties to AD both ways?
I was under the impression that the UPS could be two way. That is, I could make the 'name' field editable and if a user updates it, that change gets written back to AD, and if the name is changed in ...
3
votes
3answers
2k views
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 ...
3
votes
2answers
2k views
Disable social features but allow My Site Profiles
We want to disable the social feature functionality but still make available the My Profile pages which is part of My Site. We also want disable the personal My Sites (My Content).
Under Permissions ...
3
votes
2answers
278 views
Can I map multiple domain accounts (or authentication sources) to one user/profile?
This is probably impossible but...
We have a local 2010 farm and HQ has one. I've been asked to use the HQ MySites service application rather than doing our own, which is very sensible.
However, on ...
3
votes
1answer
120 views
User has changed his name in the active directory and wants see his mysite with the new URL
Question :
User has changed his name in the active directory and wants see his mysite with the new URL.
Can we follow the steps given below:
○ Take the backup of the existing site collection ...
3
votes
4answers
524 views
Add a Web Part Zone to “My Newsfeed” Page via PowerShell
I've done a fair amount of looking into this idea without promising leads.
Let me define my problem:
I need to add a third column (as a Web Part Zone) to the "My Newsfeed" page in My Sites. The ...
3
votes
2answers
397 views
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?
3
votes
2answers
344 views
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.
3
votes
1answer
591 views
How do you integrate activity feeds between Lync and SharePoint
How do you integrate the My Activities feed on Lync, with the SharePoint My Newsfeed feed on SharePoint 2010?
As an added bonus, how can these activity updates be surfaced in Outlook?
Are their any ...
3
votes
3answers
679 views
How to bulk import User Profiles from a legacy system and pre-create MySites
I need suggestions how to accomplish one upgrade task.
I have list of user accounts in .csv file which I need to import to SP2010 and create user accounts with appropriate attributes. Also this ...
3
votes
3answers
336 views
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 ...
3
votes
1answer
674 views
Display User Profile Picture next to Welcome Menu?
I want to display the user profile picture next to the Welcome Menu in the top right and I have it working after following Erik Swenson's blog but it doesn't seem to be working on My Sites. This is ...
3
votes
1answer
52 views
Mysite signin repeats in IE
For some reason my claimsbased mysite hosts won't let me login - it authenticates my credentials, but instead of taking me to mysite, it just refreshes the login page?
It only does this in IE - I get ...
3
votes
3answers
1k views
Can't create MySite because one already exists
I am getting the following error message when I try to open up My Site for the first time.
Your personal site cannot be created because it already exists with your user name. Please contact your ...
2
votes
2answers
1k views
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 ...
2
votes
1answer
98 views
preventing users to create my site
If you synchronize Users so it means that you have created a profile for everyone in Users and everybody in Users can create My Site if he/she logs on to a machine which is contected to AD. is it ...
2
votes
3answers
1k views
Files not deleting on solution retraction
When i retract my solution several files are not deleted including my custom master. Probably something simple but i want it deleted so that visual studio doesn't complain every time i deploy about ...
2
votes
2answers
321 views
SP2007 > Making mysite read only
in sp 2010, it just a click to make mysite read only. The old sp2007 is slowly decommissioning and I need to make the mysite Read only. Any idea guys?
2
votes
1answer
1k views
My Site - When does “My Newsfeed” get refreshed?
Which timer job is resposible for refreshing "My Newsfeed"? I am not sure if it is the User Profile Activity Feeds or Search Crawl. Can someone please point me to a technet/msdn article explaining ...
2
votes
2answers
561 views
Search Core Results showing My Site Blogs
I'm trying to create something like "Recent blogs" after some research I came up with two feasible options.
Use Search Core Results - has been suggested that it is possible to create some sort of ...
2
votes
1answer
320 views
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 ...
2
votes
3answers
175 views
SP 2007 - creating a 'blogfall' of all recent blog posts from mysite blogs
I want to aggregate into one webpart the posts made by staff on their mysite blogs.
This basically allows me to present the internal musings of staff to all staff. What I am trying to do is elevate ...
2
votes
2answers
2k views
Getting prompted for password when going to My Sites
I have created a web app for hosting my sites and configured it according to Microsoft best practice on technet. However, when I log on to the portal I enter my credentials and when I click on my name ...
2
votes
4answers
1k views
Limit users permission in their own my site
we want to limit users from changing the settings on a particular library in their my site. Am i right in thinking that to do so we will need to remove them from the site collection administrators ...
2
votes
2answers
481 views
Defaulting MySite Email Notifications to off?
On the SharePoint 2010 MySite EditProfile.aspx, there are settings for Email Notifications:
[x] Notify me when someone leaves a note on my profile.
[x] Notify me when someone adds me as a colleague.
...
2
votes
3answers
2k views
sharepoint editprofile.aspx always redirects to /Person.aspx, even with mysites disabled
I have a sharepoint farm in which I have modified the global action menu to include a link to /_layouts/editprofile.aspx. This is fine as far as it goes, but when the user posts to this page, it ...
2
votes
4answers
8k views
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 ...
2
votes
3answers
89 views
Single Sign On between two web applications?
In my SharePoint 2013 Server farm I have two web applications:
Simple intranet portal (http://portal)
My Sites (http://portal:8080)
Problem is that users have to authenticate to each application. ...
2
votes
2answers
532 views
Display navigation from another site collection
How can we display the top link navigation from another site collection at MySite?
We now have a custom master page with some custom code but it only shows the current site menu.
We want it to show ...
2
votes
2answers
662 views
Multiple My Site Hosts
I have a scenario where two sub-companies of a company should be deemed independent and as such need to not share any of the following
Search - Should not rely on security trimming User
Profiles / ...
2
votes
1answer
349 views
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 ...
2
votes
1answer
272 views
MY SITE Users Information List
I am new to SharePoint and I am making a student portal site and i put who is who section. when student want to search a name on the student portal , informations will be list on the portal.
So i want ...
2
votes
1answer
240 views
Sharepoint 2007 MySite Default Theme
I've successfully created a separate theme that user can select for their MySite - The issue is that I'd like for the theme to become the default theme applied.
I've updated converted the TemplateID ...
2
votes
1answer
265 views
How SharePoint 2007 forms the Mysite URL ?
How SharePoint 2007 forms the Mysite URL (i.e /personal/firstname_lastname or /personal/domainName_firstname) ? and what is the use of the registry key "PersonalSiteURL" ?
2
votes
1answer
690 views
Migrating My Sites to new dedicated site host
We have taken over a site where My Sites are placed in the Intranet web application.
I want to migrate the My Sites to a dedicated host site.
From what i have been able to find out so far, I will ...
2
votes
1answer
20 views
Possible to use a MySites field as a Custom List column?
Ok, odd request incoming....
Is it possible to add a field from our User Profile information in MySites as a column on a custom list?
So lets say Mr. SoAndSo creates a new list item....This column ...
2
votes
2answers
59 views
Is it possible to add notes to My Profiles with a multi-farm deployment?
I'm accessing a SharePoint 2010 implementation that has been setup by someone else and I don't have admin access to explore further. I also don't have a multi-farm VM setup available to test on at the ...
2
votes
3answers
863 views
How to rename top level site URL in SharePoint Server?
How can I rename the top level site URL website name in SharePoint server 2010?
moss10/my/personal/ PS /SitePages/Home.aspx
Website name: PS
How to Change PS to PSSOFT?
Please Explain
...
2
votes
1answer
240 views
My Site - User Profile service
I have few short questions about relations between "My Site" and UP/UPSync services.
Can I, normally, use User profile service without having My Site configured?
Can I, normally, use User profile ...
