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I have a requirement to brand SharePoint 2013 MySite. But in order to do that I need to perform Feature Stapling, and that requires Visual Studio installed on the machine that is hosting MySite. I had Visual Studio installed on one of the machines but was having the following error:

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So I updated the hosts file as per this article:

http://tszulczewski.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/cannot-connect-to-the-targeted-site-this-error-can-occur-if-the-specified-site-is-not-hosted-on-the-local-system/

But I am having the same error. I am leaning to suspect that SharePoint 2013 MySite is not hosted on that machine. How do I find out what server is hosting SharePoint 2013 site. So I do not get the above error and can use Visual Studio to brand SharePoint 2013 MySite.

Much Obliged.

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  • Central Admin -> Manage Web Applications -> SharePoint - MySites .. Check the URL field for the server
    – Michael Colbs
    Oct 7, 2014 at 20:03
  • @Colbs Thank you for your comment, I do know the url, but cannot figure out the name of the machine that is hosting it.
    – Aziz Qureshi
    Oct 7, 2014 at 20:11
  • ping the URL, then you can RDP with the IP
    – Michael Colbs
    Oct 7, 2014 at 20:12
  • how many servers in the farm? what are the AAM settings formysite web applications?
    – Waqas Sarwar MVP ♦
    Oct 8, 2014 at 2:18
  • I believe we have 3 servers on the farm
    – Aziz Qureshi
    Oct 8, 2014 at 14:23

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Are you planning to do Visual Studio development against a production My Site host?

You should not have Visual Studio installed on any of your production SharePoint servers. You should have a development environment and do your work there. Then, when your coding is completed you can deploy your solution package to your production machines via PowerShell or Central Admin.

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  • I have visual studio installed on my dev environment.
    – Aziz Qureshi
    Oct 8, 2014 at 14:22
  • good, then you should be all set. Just go to Central Admin and deploy the WSP.
    – Derek Gusoff
    Oct 8, 2014 at 16:32
  • does your dev environment have a My Site host? If not, you'll need to create one.
    – Derek Gusoff
    Oct 8, 2014 at 16:33
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I finally got VS to connect to mysite. I followed the following site:

http://www.mavention.com/blog/cannot-connect-to-the-targeted-site-error-visual-studio-2012-rc-sharepoint-developer-tools-host-headers

I added my local machine IP address to the hosts file and the site .. so it is (local machine IP address) (site name) (with out the http:// and with out the port number). So if my site is: http://mysiteSomethingSomething.com:101, I put, (local machine IP address) mysiteSomethingSomething.com in the hosts file and saved it.

Thanks.

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