SharePoint 2010 My Sites
Posted by Clayton James on April 11, 2011
There are two main area associated with My Sites.
- My Site Host Site Collection – Shared by all users – My Profile link – First site collection created in My Site web application
- My Site Personal Site Collection – Personal site collection – created when users click on the My Profile link – subsequent site collections in the My Site web application – can disable
The My Site Host Site Collection is easily customised and branded as this site collection it is shared by all users. There is a great article explaining it here.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/spsocial/archive/2010/04/08/customizing-my-sites-in-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.aspx
The My Site Personal Site Collection is created for each individual user thus customisation is not so easy. A developer is required here as the solution here is known as Feature Stapling.
Feature Stapling allows a Feature to be called when a Site Template is called during the provisioning process. This means you can run some code to change master pages, apply custom security, etc… to the site during the provisioning process. So when the site is displayed to the user all of the changes you implemented in your Feature has been applied.
I have just finished implementing a solution for a client which I am happy about as Personal Sites are now branded and users are not site collection administrators.
This post while written for SharePoint 2007 is still very relevant for SharePoint 2010
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?PageType=4&ListId={72C1C85B-1D2D-4A4A-90DE-CA74A7808184}&pID=794
CJ 
Eric said
Hi CJ,
Can you explain how you removed the user from the Site Collection Administrators for the My Site Personal Site (My Content)?
I used Feature Stapling to do this and I tried two methods – 1) changing SPSite.Owner, 2) using SPUser.IsAdmin and SPUser.Update. Both successfully changed the Site Collection Administrator but both caused two strange issues.
Error 1) At a seemingly random amount of time after the provisioning finishes (sometimes 30 seconds, sometimes 3 minutes) the Site Title changes from the user’s name to the NEW Site Collection Admin’s name! So now every site ends up with the same Title.
Error 2) The link in the My Site Profile page in the Content tab that says “Go To ” to take a different user to this Personal page has the correct address which ends in the user’s ID but instead of taking you to the Personal page it takes you to the Site Collection Admin’s My Site Profile page!
Did you encounter these issues?
Do you know how to get around them?
Can you explain how you did this solution?
Are you letting the user’s auto-provision their own page when they click My Content for the first time and then you use Feature Stapling to activate your Feature/code or did you do this some other way?
Please help before I go insane!
Eric
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Dave
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