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an intranet user's personal site

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Disable the Sync of Profile pictures from SharePoint My Sites to AD

In the User Profile Service Application, goto Manage User Properties. Edit the Picture property. Remove the mapping to the AD property and save the property.
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What do the links 'Newsfeed One Drive Sites' come from?

The links are hard-coded, provided by a delegate control. If you want to change them, you would need to override the delegate control. I have a blog post about how to do this here: http://www.sharep …
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Is there any hard limit on MySite Quota

The only limits on a My Site are the limits imposed by SharePoint (and they aren't unique to the My Sites). There are no separate limits for My Sites specifically unless you set them. For 2013 see: …
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Detect MySite User by Context

You would need to run the code block as the system account. The safest way to do that is by using the SPUserToken for the system account. Here is an example: public static string GetSiteOwner(strin …
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Specify to which mysites search center links to

You need to configure the My Sites in the User Profile Service Application to point to your MySites2. The search center is using which ever My Sites are configured in the UPA.
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Branding SkyDrive/Newsfeed (Mysite) in SharePoint Online

You are able to brand the My Site host itself (where Newsfeed is) with SharePoint Designer. However, each SkyDrive site (My Content site) is a separate site collection. You would need to manually ap …
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Posted notes on Newsfeed displayed incorrectly

Looks like you indeed found a bug in SharePoint 2013. Since Microsoft is not currently taking bug submissions on http://connect.microsoft.com for SharePoint, the only way to get them to look at this …
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How to place My Sites inside another site's URL but still keep them logically isolated?

You cannot do this with two separate web applications. A SharePoint web app cannot run under the site structure of another. The best you could do here is put the My Site host in its own site collect …
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SP 2007 - creating a 'blogfall' of all recent blog posts from mysite blogs

One other way to accomplish this would be to create an Event Receiver that is triggered when new blog posts are created. In the Event Receiver, check to see if the blog is indeed in a My Site and the …
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Disable or remove all links to MySite?

In Central Administration, goto the User Profile Service Application. Under People, select "Manage User Permissions". That is where you can choose who can use social features, thus hiding it from pe …
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Does anyone know if it's possible to display the assistant in both the assistant field and t...

The Organizational Browser chart bases it's hierarchy off the Manager field on a user profile. For each of those direct reports, you need to ensure the manager is listed as such on their Profiles.
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Is there a "Who Follows me" Web Part?

I have been working on a similar type of web part. In going through the SharePoint object model for user profiles, the only function that exists for determining the colleague relationship is on a one …
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