Planning My Sites
- My Site Host Location : This URL can be chosen by the business to define their social computing and collaboration space on the intranet or even the extranet. (Example : http://social.pointbridge.com)
- Managed Path : The path under which the individual site collections will be created when users click the My Content link for the first time. Common examples are sites or personal or my (http://social.pointbridge.com/personal/person.aspx)
- Site Naming Format : This setting decides how user name conflicts will be resolved incase of multiple domains and user names. (Example : http://social.pointbridge.com/personal/account/default.aspx)
- Multilingual user interface – Language Options : When enabled, users can use the multilingual user interface feature for their My Sites. This feature is used to display the site’s user interface in a secondary language that the user prefers instead of the default, primary language that was selected when the site was created. By default, a new site is created in the primary language of the SharePoint Server 2010 installation on the server. The business can choose to have this option enabled for their users, especially in cases of geographically distributed organizations.
Central Administration >> Application Management >> Manage service applications >> User Profile Service Application >> Set up My Sites
- Storage : SharePoint Server includes a default Personal Site quota template, which has a storage limit of 100 MB and no user limit. This quota template is used for each user’s individual site collection in their My Site. The business can choose to decide the storage limit.
Central Administration >> Application management >> Specify Quota templates
- File types : We can configure the file types that users are able to upload to or download from the Web application that hosts My Sites. This is useful if you want to prevent users from uploading or downloading file types that can be large, such as media file types, or file types that can be run on the client computer, such as executable files.
Central Administration >> Security >> Define blocked file types
- Expertise search : Users in your organization can add terms to their profile that describe areas in which they have experience. These terms are used by people search when a user searches for someone in the organization who has experience in a particular area.
If e-mail analysis is enabled, users can also find people by using e-mail analysis in Outlook 2010. Colleague suggestions are imported from Outlook if you are using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 e-mail. If you are using Microsoft Outlook 2010, SharePoint Server analyzes sent e-mail messages and then makes colleague and keyword suggestions based on this analysis. Users can then see these suggestions when they edit their profiles. Although you can enable e-mail analysis for all users in Outlook or only for specific groups by using Group Policy, users can opt out of this feature. If e-mail analysis is disabled for all users, individual users can still opt in. For enabling this setting, refer this article – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff384821.aspx
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