RE: Creating a My Site Template for all sites
From: Eli Robillard (EliRobillard_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/14/04
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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:59:07 -0800
The administrator maintains control over the public view of My Site, users
can change their own. When users move web parts around, these changes are
simply stored in the personalization database. If a user makes changes to the
default.aspx page of a My Site, that page becomes unghosted, meaning it is
therafter served from the database rather than from the site definition
files. Changes to the site definition will not appear for that user.
To make changes for all users, the administrator can change the My Site site
definition, found in the sever folder:
c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server
extensions\60\TEMPLATE\1033\SPSPERS\
So if a user has unghosted his My Site before the admin changes the site
def, he will not see the new site def, his site will continue to be served
from the database.
The lesson here is that it's fine to let users edit their own Personal
Views, but editing the default.aspx can cause branching issues that will take
an admin's time to correct.
Take care,
Eli.
"Makor" wrote:
> Jason
>
> Since every user who has create My Site rights is in
> essence a administrator for their site - how come the
> Template does not keep changing as they customize their
> personal sites (in admin mode on their site)?
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Yes this is very confusing and not well explained, but
> >actually simple.
> >
> >Just go to any "Mysite" by clicking the link using a
> >Sharepoint administrative ID. Click where it
> >says "Modify my page" and select Shared View. Then
> click
> >the same place, go into "design page mode". CAREFUL!
> >Now you are actually modifying the "default" template
> for
> >all users. You need to train all your Sharepoint admins
> >to know about this, because it is not intuitive that you
> >are modifying the view for everyone. Try it out...
> >
> >JasonK
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>Could someone please assist in explaining how I would
> go
> >>about creating a "My Site" template which the company
> >>could then use as the template for ALL My Sites created
> >>after that? I see no way from the administration
> >>interface to configure what template is used every time
> >a
> >>My Site is created?
> >>.
> >>
> >.
> >
>
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