Re: My Site & Self-service Site Creation

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From: Teresa Fung (teresa.fung_at_nospam.com)
Date: 04/10/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 19:55:26 -0400

Worked like a charm! Thank you!

"Andrew Purdon [MSFT]" <i-andpur@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Teresa,
>
> You will need to modify the default site group security settings. By
> default a contributor, and some of the other groups, can create personal
> sites and create sites using self site creation. It sounds like you only
> want the users to have the "create personal sites" right.
>
> There are two ways to achieve this:
> 1) Create your own site groups and define the rights
> 2) Change the default group rights.
>
> To change the default group settings:
> From your main portal site goto site settings -> manage security and
> additional settings -> manage site groups
> Click the group you want to modify (Contributor)
> Click Edit Site Group Permissions
> Scroll down the list until you get to Create Sites and uncheck this option
> then hit OK.
>
> When the users in the contributor group goto the sites page they do not
get
> the option to create new sites but they can still create mysites. You can
> change the rights for any of the other groups you want except
> administrators.
>
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> From: "Teresa Fung" <teresa.fung@nospam.com>
> Subject: My Site & Self-service Site Creation
> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 18:51:56 -0400
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> I see that I have to enable Self-Service Site Creation in order to create
My
> Sites. Is there a clever way for me to allow users to create "My Sites"
but
> not any other top-level sites?
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> - Teresa
>
>
>

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