SPSLA - Customizing My Sites

Michael Doyle
Waggener Edstrom

 Michael Doyle

 Senior Architect for Waggener Edstrom
Worldwide

 Email: mdoyle@waggeneredstrom.com or
doyle@techelixir.com

 Twitter: @SharePointNinja

 Blog: www.sharepointninja.com
 Or aiimcommunities.org/sharepoint

I installed My Sites
but nobody uses
them. Now what?

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 Make it easier to get to
 Integrate My Site training into new hire
training
 Add custom properties that make sense for
your organization
 Make People Search easy to get to
 Integrate operationally critical pages into
My Sites with personalization pages.
 Use intranet feature stories

 Stick with current My Site navigation

 Make My Sites a one-click on home page

 Make the My Site the user’s home page

 Integrate My Site pieces into the home page

• My Site
• My Profile
• My Settings
• Sign in as
Different User
• Sign Out

• From the site settings at the My Site’s host
site collection level choose Top Link Bar

• Under the User Profile service application in
the personalization sites area.
Note: Audience based links.

• Via the quick launch
• Or appending
_layouts/AreaNavigationSettings.aspx to
My Sites top level directory.

• Phase in Tags and Notes

• Consider the redundancy of organization
chart

• Value of memberships (shows SharePoint
site memberships and Outlook distribution
lists)

• Value of colleagues

• In Central Administration navigate to Service
Applications-> User Profile Service ->My
Site Settings -> Configure Personalization
Sites

• Click on New Item

• Add link to site

• Choose audiences if needed

 Human Resources Targeted to different
groups (i.e. Regions)

 Manager’s Page

 New Hire Page

 Contractor Page

• No longer tied to a person’s personal
content area.

• Now stored in central area (http://<my site
host>/User Photos).

• Three sizes stored but not original
(144x144, 96x96, and 64x64)

• Lots of items are tracked by default.

• Users can change what is tracked.

• Some companies might view the level of
exposure as intrusive or afraid that users
may be spending too much time looking at
what others are doing.

• Interactive one requires Silverlight which
may be an issue in some environments.

• Shows up in three places within My Sites and
once on People Search.

• In some companies titles reflect pay grade
and may be sensitive information.

• New concepts in SP 2010

• Adding a note also sends an email.

• Tags and Notes can quickly add up.
Doesn’t take much space but the number
of items can increase crawl time.

• Built in tag/note maintenance is
cumbersome (read time consuming)

• Root of My Site host.
 Overview (default) – person.aspx
 Organization – Organization.aspx
 Content – personcontent.aspx

•_layouts directory (file system)
Document – viewlsts.aspx
 Tags and Notes – thoughts.aspx
 Colleagues – MyContactLinks.aspx
 Memberships – MyMemberships.aspx

• Can use SharePoint Designer to edit files
located under My Site Host

• Other files can be opened as individual files
with other tools but don’t appear as part of
the site.

• Always make backups. Designer can throw
in code that makes recovery difficult.

• Each person is a site collection administrator

• Each site can have it’s own theme (theme
does not inherit) and potentially it’s own
master page

• User’s can potentially delete their own sites
(yes, I have seen this happen)

• Increases administration needs

• SharePoint Web Controls

• Web Services

• SharePoint Object Model

• Register SPSWC at top
• User Profile data accessible via adding
<SPSWC:ProfilePropertyLoader
id="m_objLoader"
LoadFullProfileOfCurrentUser="true"
runat="server"/>
• User profile data can be put anywhere on a
page
i.e. <SPSWC:ProfilePropertyImage
PropertyName="PictureUrl"
RenderWrapTable="False" runat="server"/>

•People.asmx
Useful for getting a list of users.

•UserProfileService.asmx
Provides profile information based upon an
individual user.

•SocialDataService.asmx
Useful for dealing with tag data.

• Still in SharePoint 2010

• Users who are added individually or have
visited the site collection.

• Provides data for the drop down for
people list.

• Can cause problems when user logon
changes.

• They are not on My Sites by default

• To add them back edit one of the
pages (such as person.aspx) and put
the Quick Links control on there.

• Being replaced with the Tag cloud

 Get a widget from Twitter.com
 Create a User Profile Property
 Copy the code into a Content Editor Web Part
 Modify it with Javascript to read in User
Profile Property
 Instructions at
http://www.sharepointninja.com/Blog/Lists/P
osts/Post.aspx?ID=54

• My Site info is visible in Outlook once
the social connector is configured.

• Can be found by going to the View
tab on Outlook and clicking on
People Pane and going to Account
settings.

• Pulls in activities and status updates.

• Users have to enter My Site Host
and user name/password.

• SharePoint My Sites
• Facebook
• Viadeo
• Linked In
• MSN Messenger
• Xing

Note: Relaxed privacy settings on most
social sites can cause some accidental
sharing of private information.

• You have the FB social connector added and
you received an email from someone who is
also your friend on FB. It shows recent
activities of that person including anything
someone has posted on their wall (i.e.
pictures, profanity, etc.) right at the bottom
of your Outlook.

• Depending on privacy settings you don’t
even have to be friends to see information.

Victory Lap- social event
"SharePoint Victory Lap" Social Event for
SPSLA will be at: 5:30pm to 8pm at
Di Piazzas (5205 E. Pacific Coast Hwy, 90804)

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