I was recently asked two questions on the use of My Site they were:-
How easy is it to restrict the use of My Site in SharePoint 2010?
Which web parts are available on My Site in SharePoint 2010?
So as I have done previously I will answer the person’s questions and also post on this blog to help others faced with the same. This will be a two part post so first question how to restrict access to My Site?
Open Central admin and click on Application Management | Manage Service Applications
Once there click on User Profile Service Application
You now need to click on manage user permissions under the People section
Once you click manage user permissions you will be presented with a windows as illustrated below
By default Authenticated users and All Authenticated users are in and enabled to create my sites out of the box. I will remove all permissions and now the user will see no my site link
The easiest way to manage a large amount of users is to create a security group in Active Directory I will call my My Site Users and drop the users in as you require them to use My Site.
I will now add my new security group into the permissions section to allow the creation of my site
But I will only allow Create Personal Site and then go through what the other tick boxes allow.
Well after trying all permutation’s I have found that if “Use Personal Features” is left unticked the users can still not get to or create a my site, and the only thing I found if “Use Social Features” is unticked is that when you click on “Tags and Notes” in My Site you get a 403 Page “Forbidden” Now I am not sure if this is a problem with my setup (Which I doubt) or an un documented feature that will be rectified over the course of time I am not sure but if you have had similar or a different experience could you let me know through comment or email dave@sharepointedutech.com
Dave
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Kamaldeep
October 14, 2010 at 7:30 am (UTC 0)
Hi,
i tried following the steps.. but I am not able to see the Security Group. The same as created after SharePoint Installation but I have synced the User Profile Service.
Am I missing something?
Plz help
Regards,
Kamaldeep
Dave Coleman
October 14, 2010 at 7:33 am (UTC 0)
Hi
No that is the out of the box settings have you tried adding them manually?
Dave
amyr
June 8, 2011 at 11:15 am (UTC 0)
hi
thank you, it is very usefull for me.
good luck forever.
lfc
July 29, 2011 at 11:59 am (UTC 0)
fantastic article.
I created a mysite (My Content) and then i went and turned all the permissions off and as expected, the My Content tab had dissappeard.. However, if you go the root as as admin user and click view all site content, the my site still appears.. (even though you get the sharepoint 403 error)
I also get the iis 403 error when i click on mytags and content.. Im on SP1.. could this be a bug not fixed in RTM?
UK Locksmiths
December 6, 2011 at 2:33 pm (UTC 0)
Is there a way to have just a My Profile link and within that have 1 link to My Site and one back home? I don’t want to have too many links within the profile page.
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