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Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:43 PM

Okay, this one took me a while to figur e out, but nonetheless I found it and will shar e
it.

In or der to tur n off or disable the MySite or MyLinks functionality you need to be an
Shar epoint administr ator .

Go to the Centr al Administr ation Web Page

Click on the link for Shar ed Ser vices Administr ation
--If you have mor e than one SSP, select the one that is r unning the MySites
functionality
Under "User Pr ofiles and My Sites" click Per sonalization Ser vices Per missions

Select the gr oup you want to limit the functionality for . Mor e than likely you will just
have NTAuthor ity\Authenticated User s.

In the next scr een you will see a list of checkboxes,

--To disable MySites uncheck "Cr eate Per sonal Site"
--To disable MyLinks uncheck "Use Per sonal Featur es"

Once you find it, disabling the functionality is pr etty easy, but if you ar e new to 2007
like I am it will take a while to find. Hopefully this will save you a few cycles.

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S hareP oint Yeah, I found that to be a touch annoy ing too. I don't really hav e an answ er for the reason w hy
G eneral Ramblings that is. 1/31/2007 7:51 A M | M ichael
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S hareP oint C onference If y ou don't w ant any permission for a user or group just remov e the user or group from the list
and y ou're done. 2/6/2007 7:52 A M | E ric v an U um
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S hareS quared, Inc E ric, y ou are absolutely correct. That is a good alternativ e. O n the other hand in the solution that
I am w orking on w e are using group based access, so it isn't as easy as remov ing one user w e
w ould hav e to remov e the w hole group.
Other Blogs
G ary Lapointe But if w e did w ant to limite access to ev ery one in the group that goes back to the same solution
P aul S tork y ou just brought up.
S hannon Bray
Thank y ou for y our feedback.

Pod Casts M ichael 2/6/2007 8:34 A M | M ichael

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TH A N K YO U !!!!! 3/16/2007 12:14 A M | teslarage
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RS S This is too funny . I hav e nev er seen so many people so happy to find out how to remov e a
A TO M feature. Jeez, M S , y ou're really doing a great job! 4/5/2007 5:27 P M | Thomas G oddard

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Thanks alot. Really helped me out. G otta lov e how ev ery one w ants to remov e the feature!
4/16/2007 9:38 A M | D an

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If I disable creation of my site for users does it delete the ones already out there? If they aren't
delete can people still v iew the information in them. 4/18/2007 9:48 A M | S cot

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N o, it w ill no delete the site that are out there. If y ou w ant them to go aw ay y ou w ill need to go
and delete the sites. This w ay none of the info w ill show up in searches and things.

M ichael 4/18/2007 10:24 A M | M ichael

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This is great!!! I do hav e a question though. C an y ou enable M y Links w ithout enabling M y S ites?
4/30/2007 9:57 A M | Kimberly

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S o I thought M y Links used the personal M y S ite S ite collection to store the links. If w e don't
enable M y S ites then w hat does it use to store the links. S orry so many questions. But I am a
little confused. 4/30/2007 10:32 A M | Kimberly

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A las, w ith more checking it looks like y ou are correct. It is inserting the link in to the M y S ite/Links
list.

H mmm. It is unfortunate that the permission screen doesn't make this dependency more clear. I
guess w ith that being the case, I am not sure y ou can use the M y Links functionality .

I guess in some w ay s it makes sense, but others it is a bummer that they are so closely linked.

M ichael 4/30/2007 10:44 A M | M ichael

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Thanks. It is a bummer. 4/30/2007 10:59 A M | Kimberly

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Thanks M ichael, this w as a question in a sales opportunity . The other party told the client that
this w as not possible. I explained that it should be (on a theoretical point of v iew ) and y ou
cleared this issue for me.

Thanks and if w e close this deal I w ill drop a line...

A mancio
6/4/2007 12:43 P M | A mancio

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hi,
my P roblem is just opposite to the abov e mentioned problem. i hav e upgraded a sharepoint
portal serv er 2003 site to M O S S 2007. it upgraded successfully but onclicking the my site link i
get a troubleshooting error w ith w ss. thanks in adv ance if any one could help me... 6/15/2007
4:41 A M | Deepak Rajan

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H mmm.. H av e y ou configured M y S ites in the S S P ? You hav e to hav e a complete different Web
A pplication that w ill house the M y S ites.

A lso y ou hav e to select how the url w ill be determined w hen the user first creates the site. F or
example if it w ill contain the /domain_username/ or just the /username/ in the url path.

M ichael 6/15/2007 10:56 A M | M ichael

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The user that installed our M O S S site disabled the M y S ites C reation using the 1st post in this
thread. S o now they w ant to add it back and cant seem to do so. H ence the question how do
y ou Re-enable M y S ites. O n the S S P admin page I only see a couple of options S earch and
O ffice S harepoint U sage Reporting. H ow do I get the M y S ites stuff Back??
A B 7/18/2007 10:14 A M | A llen
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Thank y ou for the info. 7/24/2007 11:12 A M | P aul C

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I'v e disabled M y S ites but I still w ant users to be able to serach for and find user profile
information for colleagues. I also w ant users to be able to edit their ow n user information (not
stuff pulled from A D but other properties) but w hen I click the M y S ettings option, my profile
cannot be edited. I hav e made sure that I hav e M anage P ersonal Info permission. H elp!
7/31/2007 8:31 P M | A nge

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A nge,
That is an interesting one. G enereally the user profile are tied to the M y S ite for v iew ing and
editing. S o in general I am not sure that they w ould be able to get to the profile edit page unless
they hav e access to the M y S ite functionality .

If this is possible, I w ould like to know how exactly .

M ichael 8/1/2007 8:52 A M | M ichael

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H i,

I hav e display ed the "M y site", "M y Links", "w elcome message" and help in my site. But w hen
other users try to v iew the site, they are not able to v iew these links in the w ebsite. What could
be the problem ?

I ev en tried giv ing full control to the w ebsite to those users, still they are not able to see these
links.

Thanks
S riram 8/3/2007 10:26 A M | S riram

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If y ou are the only one that can see the links then y ou are most likely deemed an administrator
on the site from the C entral A dministration or y ou are logging in as the the serv ice user.

In order to see if the other users should hav e access to those links, go to the personalization
serv ices link in the S hared S erv ice P rov ider and v erify that they hav e access to hav e those
links.

M ichael 8/3/2007 10:56 A M | M ichael

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Thanks. It helped us really . 8/27/2007 2:53 A M | Kannan

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Is there a w ay to disable my sites programmatically ? Thanks.. 9/11/2007 1:32 P M | E ric

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E ric,
I am sure that there is. I don't hav e the code of course, but usually it w ould just be easier to just
get in and turn off or limit the functionality by restricting access to the M y S ites.

It seems that ev ery thing that y ou do in S hareP oint is accessable by the O bject M odel.

M ichael 9/12/2007 7:53 P M | M ichael

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y a sir actually w as going through ur post how could it help me out!! actually w hen i click on
perople and groups and click to particular user, his all profile information is show n, but w hen i
clicked on edit only row A C C O U N TID is display ed,rest of the other row s(e.g picture,aout me
etc) are not show n only . they are hidden and not gettin display ed w hile editing. actually i w ant
to upload the user picture, i tried through shared serv cies user profiles and uploaded the picture
from there but it's getting display ed only on M Y S ITE S and not gettin display ed on picture
property of people and groups. IN S H O RT i can make a statement w atev er the user profile
information from the shared serv cies prov ider are not gettin reflected in user profile information of
people's and group.

one more thing w hen i tested it on test serv er, pictures uploading from shared serv cies, it w as
show ing but w hen i performed it on the liv e serv er it is not gettin reflected in any of the property
9/17/2007 11:28 P M | snehal parkar
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cud u help me out for the same,i w anted to knoe w hich query is retriev ing user profile
information so that it cud help me out in some sense bcos it's w eird if it's w orking on test serv erv
and not w orkin on liv e serv er 9/17/2007 11:36 P M | snehal parkar

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Does any one know of a w ay to sort alphabetically the M y S hareP oint S ites links in the M y Links
drop dow n?

thanks,
bc 11/19/2007 3:21 P M | Bob C lark

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Thanks a lot ... I w as just looking for this exact info for more than three day s............ it really
sav ed me from getting w eird...........

Keep going by posting such info's!! 12/2/2007 11:06 P M | Joy Ji

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N o P roblem. A s I find them I w ill.

Thanks for reading.

M ichael 12/3/2007 8:38 A M | M ichael

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Thank y ou so much! I had looked for w ay too long! 12/3/2007 9:21 A M | M H amilton

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Is there a site that helps an organization properly plan setting up M y S ite? 1/23/2008 10:02 A M |
V eronica

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V eronica,
I am not sure if there is a specific site. But I do know that ther is a C apacity P lanning w orksheet
on M S DN that might be useful. Realistically it isn't too ov erly difficult. Just take the number of
M y S ites y ou w ill need, add in some potential grow th estimate and then times that by 100M B
(the default content quota for a M y S ite). That w ill be the total space y ou w ill need, but I w ould
recommending ev en padding that just to be sure. F or instance, 100 sites + 50 sites (3 y ears
expected grow th) = 150 sites * 100M B = 15000M B * 2 (Buffer) = 30000M B. G ranted in this
situation w e are not talking about a lot of room, but if y ou get in to an enterprise implementation
w ith thousands of employ ees this can turn quickly in to a capacity problem.

H TH

M ichael 1/24/2008 12:31 P M | M ichael

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can any one tell me how to upload the image to the my site thru spobject model.
thanksssss, 2/15/2008 10:03 P M | M oss Learner

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H i!

O k, i did it as y ou w rote and it's w orking I hav e no M y site link but if y ou click on a persons
name somew here in site than y ou'll see a persons M y site. M y customer doesn't w ant that. H ow
to achiv e that?

Tnx in adv nace

2/19/2008 8:13 A M | mofo

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We decided that w e didn't w ant users to hav e M y S ites, so I disabled "C reate personal site" as
y ou indicated. The problem now is that w hen a user w ants to update their M y Links or M y
P rofile, they get redirected to a page that simply say s "U nknow n E rror". I read in some of the
comments abov e that others w ere hav ing a problem w ith this. H as any one been able to get it to
w ork? 2/22/2008 7:01 A M | E v e

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F ew questions, w hy is ev ery one disabling the M y S ite feature? Is there something i should know
about. I think its an excellent feature. The other question is w e are using this feature internally .
O nce a employ ee leav es/F ired, w e w ant to archiv e that M y S ite page but hav e the option of
restoring that page if needed. Is this possible? 2/25/2008 2:10 P M | N ikhil

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E v e,
I am hav ing the same problema and hav e found one other posting about someone else w ho has
this problem. I can get it to w ork on a M oss 2007 env ironment that doesn't hav e S P 1 installed. If
y ou turn off "friendly " error messages our S P 1 env ironment giv es an error:

"N ullReferenceE xception: O bject reference not set to an instance of an object.]

M icrosoft.S hareP oint.P ortal.M y S iteM apP rov ider.get_H ome()..........."

H av e y ou found an answ er?

2/28/2008 8:47 P M | Belinda

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H i,

I'm hav ing problem w here the M y Link is not updating. Is there any timer job relate to updating
M y Link? 4/24/2008 9:03 P M | aiw a

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G ood post.

I can hide now M y S te and M y Links but how do I hide the Welcome U ser link an H elp link?

A lso under Welcome U ser link w hen w e click M y S ettigns it brings up the user information from
P eople and G roups. When y ou try to edit that it only show s A ccount. I know someone
mentioned these abov e but w ondering w hat's really going on here.

Thanks,
Jaxy

5/2/2008 1:06 P M | Jaxy

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Jaxy ,
The w elcome user link is actually a control that is on the master page. If y ou really need to get
rid of it, then y ou w ill need to open up the master page and comment (notice I said comment)
the control out. H ow ev er, bew are that w hen y ou do this y ou are taking aw ay other functionality
for people to login (on anony mous sites), login as a different user (good for testing as an
administrator), and logging off. If all of that is okay w ith y ou then giv e it a go. You can find y our
master page in the master pages catalog in y our site collection for M O S S , or at each site for WS S
3.0.

H TH .

M ichael 5/6/2008 7:37 A M | M ichael

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H i E v e and Belinda,
I w as hav ing the same problem and i found a solution in this blog http://forums.microsoft.com
/TechN et/S how P ost.aspx?P ostID=3196550&S iteID=17 .
5/8/2008 4:55 A M | Lima

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You can disable M y S ite and still hav e the option for users to edit their profile. When y ou disable
my site as y ou mentioned abov e y ou hav e to select U se P ersonal F eatures and M anage U ser
P rofile. This w ill enable users to edit there profile, such as add a picture, manage links...ect and
choose w hich ones w ill be v isable to w hom.

I hav e also found out that if y ou install sp1 that this w ill cause an error w hen users try to edit
their profile and the feature w ill not be av alable. H opefully M icrosoft w ill fix this problem.
5/30/2008 11:24 A M | M ark S .

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H ello,
i hav e also the problem, if i dont activ ate the option to create the personal w ebsite, the user can't
manage there links after install sp1

Did somebody hav e a solution for this? 6/3/2008 1:26 A M | H orst

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M ark S .,

I tried y our suggestion to add M anage U ser P rofile in order to allow users to edit their profile
w ithout enabling M y S ites but can't get it to w ork E XC E P T in the C entral A dmin site.

A ll the other sites only display 'account' w hen selecting M y S ettings > E dit and loading
http://w hatev ersite/_lay outs/useredit.aspx

A ny more suppestions??

Thanks 6/26/2008 1:56 P M | A B

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A llison,
You might look at the permission set that y ou hav e applied to the users and v erify that they
hav e the permission lev el checked for U pdating U ser P rofile.

That is the only suggestion I can think of at this point.

M ichael 6/26/2008 10:40 P M | M ichael

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1. G o to the C entral A dministration Web P age
2. C lick on the link for S hared S erv ices A dministration
3. C hoose M y S ite S ettings
4. C lick on the P ersonalization S erv ices P ermissions at left menu
5. Remov e N TA uthority \A uthenticated U sers
6. F inish

7/11/2008 4:16 A M | ice

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S haun,
Did y ou try the steps in the post or the steps listed abov e y our response? E ither one should
w ork. I w ould go back and v erify that y ou w ere able to de-select the v alues and they w ere
applied.

M ichael 9/5/2008 9:16 A M | M ichael

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Thanks M ichael. I hav e definitely done the abov e steps…I'v e read through this thread 3 or 4
times now to see if I missed any thing haha.

A s I mentioned abov e, M y S ites and M y Links hav e been disabled…this w orks fine. H ow ev er, the
option still exists for users to 'A dd Links' ev en though M y Links has been turned off. We hav e
about 7 or 8 different groups/users w ithin P ersonalization S erv ices P ermissions (w e require a few
people to hav e M y S ites/Links but most people w on't). But it seems because a few people hav e
access to it..ev ery one has access to A dd Links. I w ould hav e thought only the people w ho
appeared in P ersonalization S erv ices P ermissions w ould get to see the 'A dd Links' link.
S urely this is a bug w ith the sy stem? 9/7/2008 10:26 P M | S haun

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S haun,
It might be possible that it is a bug, but y ou w ould hav e thought it w ould hav e been caught by
now if it w as.
The one last thing I w ould suggest is going through the permissions list and groups for the user to
be sure that they are not included in one of the groups that has the permissions to M y Links. Just
double check. I hav e been on the receiv ing end of this one w here permissions w ere allow ed for
one group the person belonged to and I w asn't aw are they w ere in that group. 9/8/2008 8:35
A M | M ichael

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Thank y ou so much for posting this answ er.

M icrosoft does a w orse and w orse job of making their products intuitiv e.

I saw a blog the other day on how to script out a database w ith all the objects in S Q L S erv er.
It's just a w izard, but if y ou don't know how to find it, y ou'll spend hours try ing to figure it out.
S ame deal here... 9/8/2008 1:24 P M | Burke

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how can I set the maximum filesize and imagesize of the picture that a user uploads for his profile
on M y S ite? 9/11/2008 1:07 A M | G M
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GM,
I know that y ou are able to modify the maximum file size in the configuration of the w eb
application in C entral A dministration, but the maximum picture size I am not sure is possible.
S hareP oint sees ev ery thing as content so the picture w ould hav e to abide by the maximum file
size restriction but as far a phy sical size I don't think it is possible to limit.

H TH ,

M ichael 9/11/2008 8:19 A M | M ichael

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Does any one know how to remov e the display of related documents in a users profile. F or
example w hen I upload documents for users to see w ithin my departments portal, w hen y ou
v iew my profile y ou w ill see the documents there also. I hav e looked thru the profile settings
and I do not see w here y ou can disable this. If I find an answ er to this I w ill post it.

thanks,
M ark 9/24/2008 4:21 P M | M arkS

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I'v e had success by only unchecking "U se P ersonal F eatures" - I'v e left "create personal site"
checked. It got rid of both links. I'v e also had success remov ing "N T A uthority \A uthenticated
U sers" (as mentioned abov e)

I stumbled on the first solution by finding a user that thought it w as a bug:

http://rinonu.w ordpress.com/2007/11/02/moss2007-disable-my site-and-my links/#comment-3
10/2/2008 3:20 P M | M r.W

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We w ould like to enable M y S ites for a group of users, w hich w e can do by allow ing those users
to 'C reate P ersonal S ite' as described here. H ow ev er, for licensing purposes (M S S tandard C A Ls),
w e need to ensure that these users don't open up the P ublic area of their M y S ites to folks that
are not allow ed to create M y S ites. Is this possible? 10/3/2008 9:03 A M | H elen

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H elen,
I am not sure I know w hat y ou mean by opening the public side of their M y S ites to the folks
that are not allow ed to create M y S ites. G enerally y ou are not licensed by the M y S ite or the
person v iew ing it. You are licensed by the users that are using/v iew ing any thing in S hareP oint.

S o ev en if y ou don't allow them to create M y S ites or v iew a M y S ite, if they hav e access to
other areas of S hareP oint then y ou w ill still hav e to purchase a license for them.

To answ er y ou question more directly , I am not positiv e that y ou w ould be able to do this.

M ichael 10/3/2008 9:31 A M | M Ichael

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M ichael,let me clarify :

We license our users of S hareP oint, how ev er w e can control w ho has access. If w e allow those
licensed users to create M y S ites, w e w ould w ant to prev ent those users from inv iting
non-licensed users to participate in M y S ites (the public area), as this w ould require that w e
license the inv ited participants. M y question is technical - w e can limit w ho can create M y S ites,
but can w e limit w ho can be inv ited to participate in someone else's M y S ite? 10/7/2008 12:29
P M | H elen

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By remov ing the U ser P ersonal F eatures, as A nge stated, users are not able to v iew U ser
P rofiles - this w as a problme for us. What found is that if y ou giv e M anage U ser P rofiles, then
users are able to v iew U ser profiles w ithout hav ing the M y Links hy perlink. This sounds risking
because it sounds like a user could do some damage by editing user profiles, but in fact a user
cannot edit user profiles w ithout also hav ing at least v iew permissions to the S S P . S o remov e
"U ser P ersonal F eatures" A N D adding "M anage U ser P rofiles" w as the fix for us. 10/10/2008
9:42 A M | hmkjr

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M ichael, We hav e turned off the M y S ites feature - Thanks!! N ow w e hav e another problem - I
think that a few M y S ites w ere created before w e turned it off. N ow under P eople and G roups
w e are not able to add pictures or much of any thing to each user's profile. If I am able to get rid
of those few M y S ites, w ill the functionality of the user's profile come back?? If not, how do I go
about getting this problem fixed?? 11/20/2008 10:43 A M | Jim G rooms

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To those try ing to get rid of the A dd to my Links list on the document edit menus. The only w ay
I hav e been able to do so is by editing the core.js in the 12 hiv e/template/lay outs/1033 folder.

In the JS y ou can see M S failed to w rap the code that inserts this in any ty pe of if statement tied
to permissions so it display s for ev ery one.

I just comment out the lines. O pen the js file (back it up first) and do a search on "A dd to M y
Links". This edit needs to be made on ev ery single WF E . A lso, because y ou are modify ing a
M O S S core file, y ou cannot be guaranteed that the next patch w ill not ov erw rite y our change.
A lso, this is a G LO BA L change. If y ou remov e it, nobody reciev ing content from the WF E s y ou
modify w ill ev er get the link.

S o In short, it w orks, but there are gotchas and w ide repercussions. M ake sure y ou really w ant it
remov ed before y ou remov e it. 12/17/2008 6:11 A M | G ouranga

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We mov ed out M y sites w eb app from an existing S S P to a new one. H ow ev er, the M y Links for
all the users are gone. C ould these be linked to U ser P rofiles?
i found that M y Links is in fact a w eb part. Where is the data of this w eb part sav ed? on the S S P
database? the M y S ite content D B? other??
1/29/2009 11:01 P M | V arun

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Thanks for the post M ichael. Before w e disabled M y S ites, many of our users had created their
sites. We w ant them the ability to continue using them.

A s an administrator, w hats the best w ay for us to prov ide them w ith the access links
3/6/2009 9:24 A M | A nand

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We hav e extended our intranet side.

Before extending, links like "M y S ite" and "M y Links" w ere w orking properly . A fter extension of
our intranet site, M y S ite and M y Links are show ing errors (these links are linking to extended
sy stem).
P lz some body let know the solution for this problem.

3/23/2009 3:42 A M | G E M

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is there a w ay to disable my sites only for a single w eb application or ev en site collection rather
than all w eb apps using a single S S P ? 4/30/2009 8:27 A M | paul

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P aul,
You can create another S S P specifically for y our w eb application and then turn it off there. You
can hav e more than one S S P in y our installation if this is needed.

H TH ,

M ichael 4/30/2009 9:44 A M | M ichael

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H i,
I am creating a C ommunity S ite in M O S S 2007 w ith customization and also w ant to use existing
M y S ite(basically “M y P ofile”) feature for each user’s profile like O RKU T fashion(w hich maintains
G RO U P S , F RIE N D’s List, S C RA P BO O K, M E S S A G E S etc.). C an i use “M y S ite” feature of this
purpose??
C an y ou please help me in this context??

Thank y ou,
S aurabh 4/30/2009 12:58 P M | S aurabh Kumar S ingh

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S ure, I don't see w hy not. H ow ev er usually y ou w ould w ant to plan out the number of my sites
y ou w ould be implementing for capacity planning purposes. S o other than the technically I don't
see w hy y ou couldn't use M y S ites for w hat y ou are looking to do.

M ichael 4/30/2009 1:56 P M | M ichael

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We hav e turned off M y S ites, but are allow ing M y Links. H ow ev er, many people not able to add
a link. They get a blank dialog box that ev entually times out. A ny ideas w hy ? Thanks! 6/11/2009
2:54 P M | A leta

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H i A ll - I made a big mistake of using sharepoint designer to remov e my sites and my links at
the top RH S of the page? F or the life of me i cannot undo this and ev enthough y ou can paste
y our my site U RL into the brow ser and its takes y ou there i cannot bring the links back to the
sharepoint page?? A ny help w ould be greatly appreciated. Regards N ick 6/16/2009 4:59 A M |
N ick C hapman

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Thank y ou sav ed my life! 7/18/2009 8:51 A M | C uco

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hi there,

to be honest, the article about the w ay to disable the my site and my link on the M O S S truly
helps me in dev eloping my site. I hav e my M O S S site hosted at A S P H ostP ortal
(http://w w w .asphostportal.com/Window s-M O S S -H osting-P lans.aspx) and initially , I alw ay s hav e
a problem of broken link and after I remov ed these links, ev ery thing is smoother and I get more
v isitors.

Thank y ou all! 9/22/2009 9:55 P M | Tommy

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O v er three y ears on and this is still helping people!!, thanks a million, w as head w as melting
try ing to find this.

3/1/2010 2:30 A M | C onor

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I am glad it helped.

M ichael 3/1/2010 8:53 A M | M ichael

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G reat! Thx ;) 3/4/2010 10:51 A M | lukv al

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I think that if y ou disable M y S ites, then users cannot get to the page to edit their profile.

With M y S ites, there is a link from their my site to the profile edit page.

The profile edit apge actually liv es on the my site host, and doesn't require the user to hav e a
my site to use -- if they ty pe in the url manually they can get to it, eg,
my sites.w hatev er/person.aspx?account=john.doe

3/12/2010 3:23 P M | P erry

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To N ich C hapman:
You'v e probably already figured it out but w hat y ou did w as delete the S hareP oint delegate
control. G o to M S D N and get the minimul S hareP oint masterpage and grab it from there and put
it back.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library /aa660698.aspx 3/27/2010 4:18 P M | Jose M . Tamez

# Disable M ySite and M yLinks in Shar epoint ( M O SS) 2 0 0 7

Is it possible to prov ide a link to a file in S hareP oint to a particular group of people?

please reply any one to my mail .

v ery v ery urgent needed.

regards,
archana 3/31/2010 3:48 A M | archana

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Why is ev ery thing so bloody difficult in S hareP oint!? Rather than the sledgehammer approach
w hich affects the w hole farm I w ent w ith a nasty JQ uery hack in the mast page to remov e the
menu items.
 The S hareP oint hack list is building up..... 6/16/2010 3:52 A M | ifunky
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