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Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:43 PM

Okay, this one took me a while to figure out, but nonetheless I found it and will share it.

In order to turn off or disable the MySite or MyLinks functionality you need to be an Sharepoint administrator.

Go to the Central Administration Web Page
Click on the link for Shared Services Administration
     --If you have more than one SSP, select the one that is running the MySites functionality
Under "User Profiles and My Sites" click Personalization Services Permissions

Select the group you want to limit the functionality for.  More than likely you will just have NTAuthority\Authenticated Users.

In the next screen you will see a list of checkboxes,
     --To disable MySites uncheck "Create Personal Site"
     --To disable MyLinks uncheck "Use Personal Features"

Once you find it, disabling the functionality is pretty easy, but if you are new to 2007 like I am it will take a while to find.  Hopefully this will save you a few cycles.

Feedback

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

WAHOO!! thank you very much...:) 12/28/2006 11:44 AM | dmaron9909

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

My pleasure. 12/28/2006 2:20 PM | Michael Van Cleave

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

I have to thank you too. Great Work :). 1/3/2007 12:53 PM | Muty

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Well done. 1/11/2007 7:41 PM | Singapore

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Thanks a lot ... 1/12/2007 3:31 AM | Alexandre BARBIER

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

saved me heaps of cycles, cheers! 1/15/2007 6:16 PM | Lord humongous

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Thanks Michael, this post helped us too. 1/30/2007 7:38 AM | Richard Acton

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Thanks, although it seems to insist I select at least one permission. which is annoying. 1/31/2007 7:37 AM | triplewood

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Yeah, I found that to be a touch annoying too. I don't really have an answer for the reason why that is. 1/31/2007 7:51 AM | Michael

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

If you don't want any permission for a user or group just remove the user or group from the list and you're done. 2/6/2007 7:52 AM | Eric van Uum

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Eric, you are absolutely correct. That is a good alternative. On the other hand in the solution that I am working on we are using group based access, so it isn't as easy as removing one user we would have to remove the whole group.

But if we did want to limite access to everyone in the group that goes back to the same solution you just brought up.

Thank you for your feedback.

Michael 2/6/2007 8:34 AM | Michael

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THANK YOU!!!!! 3/16/2007 12:14 AM | teslarage

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

This is too funny. I have never seen so many people so happy to find out how to remove a feature. Jeez, MS, you're really doing a great job! 4/5/2007 5:27 PM | Thomas Goddard

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Thanks alot. Really helped me out. Gotta love how everyone wants to remove the feature! 4/16/2007 9:38 AM | Dan

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

If I disable creation of mysite for users does it delete the ones already out there? If they aren't delete can people still view the information in them. 4/18/2007 9:48 AM | Scot

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

No, it will no delete the site that are out there. If you want them to go away you will need to go and delete the sites. This way none of the info will show up in searches and things.

Michael 4/18/2007 10:24 AM | Michael

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

This is great!!! I do have a question though. Can you enable My Links without enabling My Sites? 4/30/2007 9:57 AM | Kimberly

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

So I thought My Links used the personal My Site Site collection to store the links. If we don't enable My Sites then what does it use to store the links. Sorry so many questions. But I am a little confused. 4/30/2007 10:32 AM | Kimberly

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Alas, with more checking it looks like you are correct. It is inserting the link in to the MySite/Links list.

Hmmm. It is unfortunate that the permission screen doesn't make this dependency more clear. I guess with that being the case, I am not sure you can use the MyLinks functionality.

I guess in some ways it makes sense, but others it is a bummer that they are so closely linked.

Michael 4/30/2007 10:44 AM | Michael

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Thanks. It is a bummer. 4/30/2007 10:59 AM | Kimberly

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Thanks Michael, this was a question in a sales opportunity. The other party told the client that this was not possible. I explained that it should be (on a theoretical point of view) and you cleared this issue for me.

Thanks and if we close this deal I will drop a line...
Amancio
6/4/2007 12:43 PM | Amancio

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

hi,
my Problem is just opposite to the above mentioned problem. i have upgraded a sharepoint portal server 2003 site to MOSS 2007. it upgraded successfully but onclicking the my site link i get a troubleshooting error with wss. thanks in advance if anyone could help me... 6/15/2007 4:41 AM | Deepak Rajan

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Hmmm.. Have you configured MySites in the SSP? You have to have a complete different Web Application that will house the MySites.

Also you have to select how the url will be determined when the user first creates the site. For example if it will contain the /domain_username/ or just the /username/ in the url path.

Michael 6/15/2007 10:56 AM | Michael

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

The user that installed our MOSS site disabled the MySites Creation using the 1st post in this thread. So now they want to add it back and cant seem to do so. Hence the question how do you Re-enable MySites. On the SSP admin page I only see a couple of options Search and Office Sharepoint Usage Reporting. How do I get the MySites stuff Back??
AB 7/18/2007 10:14 AM | Allen

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Thank you for the info. 7/24/2007 11:12 AM | Paul C

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

I've disabled MySites but I still want users to be able to serach for and find user profile information for colleagues. I also want users to be able to edit their own user information (not stuff pulled from AD but other properties) but when I click the My Settings option, my profile cannot be edited. I have made sure that I have Manage Personal Info permission. Help! 7/31/2007 8:31 PM | Ange

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Ange,
That is an interesting one. Genereally the user profile are tied to the MySite for viewing and editing. So in general I am not sure that they would be able to get to the profile edit page unless they have access to the MySite functionality.

If this is possible, I would like to know how exactly.

Michael 8/1/2007 8:52 AM | Michael

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Hi,

I have displayed the "My site", "My Links", "welcome message" and help in my site. But when other users try to view the site, they are not able to view these links in the website. What could be the problem ?

I even tried giving full control to the website to those users, still they are not able to see these links.

Thanks
Sriram 8/3/2007 10:26 AM | Sriram

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

If you are the only one that can see the links then you are most likely deemed an administrator on the site from the Central Administration or you are logging in as the the service user.

In order to see if the other users should have access to those links, go to the personalization services link in the Shared Service Provider and verify that they have access to have those links.

Michael 8/3/2007 10:56 AM | Michael

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Thanks. It helped us really. 8/27/2007 2:53 AM | Kannan

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Is there a way to disable my sites programmatically? Thanks.. 9/11/2007 1:32 PM | Eric

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Eric,
I am sure that there is. I don't have the code of course, but usually it would just be easier to just get in and turn off or limit the functionality by restricting access to the MySites.

It seems that everything that you do in SharePoint is accessable by the Object Model.

Michael 9/12/2007 7:53 PM | Michael

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

ya sir actually was going through ur post how could it help me out!! actually when i click on perople and groups and click to particular user, his all profile information is shown, but when i clicked on edit only row ACCOUNTID is displayed,rest of the other rows(e.g picture,aout me etc) are not shown only. they are hidden and not gettin displayed while editing. actually i want to upload the user picture, i tried through shared servcies user profiles and uploaded the picture from there but it's getting displayed only on MY SITES and not gettin displayed on picture property of people and groups. IN SHORT i can make a statement watever the user profile information from the shared servcies provider are not gettin reflected in user profile information of people's and group.

one more thing when i tested it on test server, pictures uploading from shared servcies, it was showing but when i performed it on the live server it is not gettin reflected in any of the property 9/17/2007 11:28 PM | snehal parkar

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cud u help me out for the same,i wanted to knoe which query is retrieving user profile information so that it cud help me out in some sense bcos it's weird if it's working on test serverv and not workin on live server 9/17/2007 11:36 PM | snehal parkar

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Does anyone know of a way to sort alphabetically the My SharePoint Sites links in the My Links drop down?

thanks,
bc 11/19/2007 3:21 PM | Bob Clark

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Thanks a lot ... I was just looking for this exact info for more than three days............ it really saved me from getting weird...........

Keep going by posting such info's!! 12/2/2007 11:06 PM | JoyJi

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

No Problem. As I find them I will.

Thanks for reading.

Michael 12/3/2007 8:38 AM | Michael

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Thank you so much! I had looked for way too long! 12/3/2007 9:21 AM | MHamilton

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Is there a site that helps an organization properly plan setting up MySite? 1/23/2008 10:02 AM | Veronica

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Veronica,
I am not sure if there is a specific site. But I do know that ther is a Capacity Planning worksheet on MSDN that might be useful. Realistically it isn't too overly difficult. Just take the number of MySites you will need, add in some potential growth estimate and then times that by 100MB (the default content quota for a MySite). That will be the total space you will need, but I would recommending even padding that just to be sure. For instance, 100 sites + 50 sites (3 years expected growth) = 150 sites * 100MB = 15000MB * 2 (Buffer) = 30000MB. Granted in this situation we are not talking about a lot of room, but if you get in to an enterprise implementation with thousands of employees this can turn quickly in to a capacity problem.

HTH

Michael 1/24/2008 12:31 PM | Michael

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

can anyone tell me how to upload the image to the mysite thru spobject model.
thanksssss, 2/15/2008 10:03 PM | Moss Learner

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Hi!

Ok, i did it as you wrote and it's working I have no My site link but if you click on a persons name somewhere in site than you'll see a persons My site. My customer doesn't want that. How to achive that?

Tnx in advnace
2/19/2008 8:13 AM | mofo

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

We decided that we didn't want users to have MySites, so I disabled "Create personal site" as you indicated. The problem now is that when a user wants to update their My Links or My Profile, they get redirected to a page that simply says "Unknown Error". I read in some of the comments above that others were having a problem with this. Has anyone been able to get it to work? 2/22/2008 7:01 AM | Eve

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Few questions, why is everyone disabling the MySite feature? Is there something i should know about. I think its an excellent feature. The other question is we are using this feature internally. Once a employee leaves/Fired, we want to archive that MySite page but have the option of restoring that page if needed. Is this possible? 2/25/2008 2:10 PM | Nikhil

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Eve,
I am having the same problema and have found one other posting about someone else who has this problem. I can get it to work on a Moss 2007 environment that doesn't have SP1 installed. If you turn off "friendly" error messages our SP1 environment gives an error:

"NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.] Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.MySiteMapProvider.get_Home()..........."

Have you found an answer?
2/28/2008 8:47 PM | Belinda

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Hi,

I'm having problem where the My Link is not updating. Is there any timer job relate to updating My Link? 4/24/2008 9:03 PM | aiwa

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Good post.

I can hide now My Ste and My Links but how do I hide the Welcome User link an Help link?

Also under Welcome User link when we click My Settigns it brings up the user information from People and Groups. When you try to edit that it only shows Account. I know someone mentioned these above but wondering what's really going on here.

Thanks,
Jaxy


5/2/2008 1:06 PM | Jaxy

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Jaxy,
The welcome user link is actually a control that is on the master page. If you really need to get rid of it, then you will need to open up the master page and comment (notice I said comment) the control out. However, beware that when you do this you are taking away other functionality for people to login (on anonymous sites), login as a different user (good for testing as an administrator), and logging off. If all of that is okay with you then give it a go. You can find your master page in the master pages catalog in your site collection for MOSS, or at each site for WSS 3.0.

HTH.

Michael 5/6/2008 7:37 AM | Michael

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Hi Eve and Belinda,
I was having the same problem and i found a solution in this blog http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3196550&SiteID=17 .
5/8/2008 4:55 AM | Lima

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

You can disable My Site and still have the option for users to edit their profile. When you disable my site as you mentioned above you have to select Use Personal Features and Manage User Profile. This will enable users to edit there profile, such as add a picture, manage links...ect and choose which ones will be visable to whom.

I have also found out that if you install sp1 that this will cause an error when users try to edit their profile and the feature will not be avalable. Hopefully Microsoft will fix this problem. 5/30/2008 11:24 AM | Mark S.

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Hello,
i have also the problem, if i dont activate the option to create the personal website, the user can't manage there links after install sp1

Did somebody have a solution for this? 6/3/2008 1:26 AM | Horst

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Mark S.,

I tried your suggestion to add Manage User Profile in order to allow users to edit their profile without enabling My Sites but can't get it to work EXCEPT in the Central Admin site.

All the other sites only display 'account' when selecting My Settings > Edit and loading http://whateversite/_layouts/useredit.aspx

Anymore suppestions??

Thanks 6/26/2008 1:56 PM | AB

# re: Disable MySite and MyLinks in Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007

Allison,
You might look at the permission set that you have applied to the users and verify that they have the permission level checked for Updating User Profile.

That is the only suggestion I can think of at this point.

Michael 6/26/2008 10:40 PM | Michael
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