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Possible to override site creation in Sharepoint?

We want to customize the "My Site" templates for different roles, say Students and Teachers. So basically we want to have one Site Def. for each and when they press "My Site" we want to create a new site using a different template depending on the role of the user (Student vs. Teacher). Does anybody know if this is even possible? Or any ...

MySite and profile language

Hi Gyes, My problem is I installed sharepoint language pack (arabic), it works will, I created mysite in arabic and it also works will, but when I navigate to my Profile it's shown in English, I want my Profile to be shown in Arabic too. Does anyone have a solution Thanks ...

LDAP query in a webpart deployed in MySite throws an exception

Hi All, I designed a webpart that brings the employee info according to the EmployeeId stored in active directory, this webpart must be deployed in MySite for every user and then get the employeeId from active directory for the current user "mysite" owner, for testing purposes I deployed the webpart in the intranet site and logged in wi...

Different My Site Themes on different SSP's

Hi We are running MOSS 2007, with 4 different SSPs. I want to change the theme that is applied to the mysites created on one of the SSPs. I plan to do this using feature stapling but how can I deploy this feature to just this specific mysite url as it only differs by port number. Cheers ...

Adding a custom tab and page MOSS MySites that everyone can see

On MOSS mysites I want to be able to create a new tab that every mysite user can view, it should show a web part page. How can I do this? ...

How to prevent a mysite owner form deleting the MySite root website

Hi, I'm looking for a way to prevent a user in SharePoint from deleting his MySite or be more precise from deleting the MySite's root web site. If I could archive this, I could place some lists the user will also not be allowed to delete. I first thought about taking the user the right to delete sites but I think this will prevent him...

Access Share Service Provider (SSP) settings

How can I access the settings of a Share Service Provider programmatically. Especially how could I retrieve the MySite storage location defined in a SSP's MySite settings? ...

How to make the MOSS 2007 My Site profile fields not act as searchable links?

I have a MOSS 2007 instance where my client wants the content that comes in the My Site profile to not show up as links. How can we achieve this? I tried removing the preferred search center url from the SSP. It did the trick but it also broke the standard search functionality that resides on the top right hand side of the page (below t...

On MySite Creation in SharePoint, How Do I Add a Customized My Home Page?

Hi, I need to add a customized My Home Page, using a specified page layout, on the creation of a new My Site in SharePoint (2007). Can anyone give me any pointers on how to do this, preferably without modifying the Master page (as detailed here)? Thanks, MagicAndi ...

Migrated My Profile link still pointing to the old MOSS server

Migrated a MOSS content DB to a brand new farm. The My Sites also were on the same content DB. Then the SSP also was migrated over. However, the My Profile link is not binding to the restored My Sites but rather to the old MOSS server. Anyone know of any solutions? ...

Sharepoint 2007 Mysite only for specific user group

This might be simple or impossible ;-) Is there a way to restrict the Mysite usage to only a specific group in Moss 07 so that only this groups has personal sites? thanks in advance Ren ...

How to correct/modify user presence menu

Hello, We are having issues with the presence icon menu displaying on our people search results page in Sharepoint. 1: While we would like to display presence information, the menu being rendered on different computers is not consistent. Certain users see a menu option “View My Site” which points to a defunct site residing on an old ...

Create mysite of User programatically

if user's mysite is not created, it needs to be created to add list. So how to check if mysite is existing or not and to create if not created. ...

Changing My Site and My Profile tab text

How do I go about changing the My Site and My Profile text on everyone's My Site within SharePoint 2007? I can't seem to find anywhere where these are set in any of the master pages. ...

SharePoint MySites URL Conflict

A user logins into the SharePoint site we have created using their email address and this becomes their username. However this creates a problem for MySites. When the user creates a MySite the URL it cuts of anything after the @ symbol in the username, so if the users email address is [email protected] the URL to their MySite becomes: htt...

SharePoint - Link back to the Portal from MySite

We have a custom master page that is deployed to My Site, as well as to the portal. The portal master page has an image, that the user clicks and directs them to the MySite application. On the My Site master page, we need to be able to facilitate the same functionality. When a user clicks on an image that is in the global navigation, the...

Deactivating site collection feature on MySite

We have a custom master page that is deployed to the MySite web application per these instructions - http://www.sharepointblog.com/2008/07/sp2007-custom-master-pages-on-subsites.html However, we require the ability to deactivate the feature on all the site collections that are within the MySite webapplication. The feature is built as a...

How to make a mysite profile property display in a different way?

Hello, We have a string in AD which is actually storing a date in the YYYYMMDD format, which when you map it in sharepoint to a profile property, just looks plain ugly, e.g. 20091130. Our AD people are refusing to change the format of it in AD, so we were wondering if there was a way (javascript perhaps?) of changing it so that it at le...

MySite Filenot found error while creating?

for one user mysite created wrong ( for all others creating mysites are creating fine). While creating mysite it throws an error 400 (Bad request). I try to delete site using below command. Its throwing error. stsadm -o deletesite -url "http://mysite/personal/0011585" error: The system cannot find the path specified. (Exception fro...

Integrating Network Shares To MySite

Hi, Please I have a WSS 3.0 environment. Not all departments have adopted the WSS sites. Those who have not use a network share, those who have adopted equally still use the network share because of those who haven't adopted WSS. There is a migration in progress. As part of the adoption process, users whose documents are in network sha...