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Wondering why you (or your users) are getting that pesky "The webpage cannot be found" message when you click on About Me on your SharePoint 2013 site? Chances are, you haven't yet configured your site for My Sites. In this article, we'll walk you through the steps you need to configure...
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SharePoint 2013 adds many new features, including improvements to Lists, Sites, and Pages, as well as a variety of changes pertaining to user interface and locations. In some cases, these changes can cause difficulties in using your sites. In this article, we will take a look at how to change Regional...
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Working in SharePoint 2010, it's a common occurrence to click on someone's account name in People and Groups to show that user's My Site. An all-too common occurrence in this scenario involves receiving "The webpage cannot be found" response, as shown below. Seeing this response...
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This morning at the SPC, Microsoft Social Product Manager Paul Javid and Social Technical Product Manager Dave Pae presented a session on the topic of Improving Productivity with Social in SharePoint 2010. Paul said at the outset that "We've seen a proliferation of how we connect and how we...
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John Anderson
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Tue, Oct 4 2011
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Filed under: Social Computing, Branding, Dave Pae, Enterprise Social Media, Social SharePoint, My Site, SPC11, Translator, Lync 2010, Paul Javid, #SPC11
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I've been feeling the itch to return to the topic of the SharePoint 2010 My Site, so I spent a little more time actively working on mine today. In matter of moments, I had tripped across the first noteworthy item when I clicked the My Settings button in the dropdown under my name in the upper right...
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While tooling around on the Bamboo portal yesterday afternoon, I happened to drop into my My Site and quickly realized three things. First, I apparently haven't spent any time on my My Site since the portal was upgraded to 2010 early this year. Second, from a Web Part perspective, nothing I had done...
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Given that I'm a "social media guy," and given that My Sites are the social media hub of SharePoint, it should come as little surprise that I chose Chris Gideon's Plan and Deploy My Site for Microsoft SharePoint as the capstone for my TechEd 2011 experience yesterday afternoon. With...
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SharePoint 2010
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John Anderson
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Fri, May 20 2011
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Filed under: Social Computing, Social SharePoint, My Site, User Profile Service, #msteched, TechEd 2011, TechEd, TechEdBamboo, Tag Profile, Social Data Database, Sync Database, User Profile Database, Policies, Chris Gideon
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Beginning his presentation with the acknowledgment that there is a "whole lot of snake oil with social computing," Daniel McPherson stated that his goal this afternoon was to boil social computing down to something that's realistic and useful to the enterprise. "Social computing is...
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I began an "all social" afternoon of sessions at SPTechCon today with Michael Doyle 's presentation on customization of the social aspects of SharePoint 2010. Michael said upfront that the primary focus of the session would be My Sites, since they are "basically the social hub of 2010...
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SharePoint 2010
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John Anderson
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Wed, Feb 9 2011
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Filed under: Org Chart, My Links, Tags & Notes, My Site Navigation, Profile Pictures, #SPTechCon, SPTechCon San Francisco, Personalization Site, Newsfeed, User Photo, My Site Host, My Site
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Yesterday I spent some time on my My Site for the first time in a little while and, thinking it might be time to get to know a new-to-me Web Part, I edited the page and clicked the Add a Web Part bar to bring up the Web Part gallery and consider my options. Maybe it's because I haven't spent...
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Do you have a process in place for managing the content created by an employee when they leave your company? Do you delete a former employee's Active Directory account? If you do, are you aware what happens in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 to content stored on a former user's...
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Business Productivity Architect Mark Eichenberger is a Microsoft employee based in the mid-Atlantic region. Regarding his title, Mark explains, "What that really means? I'm a SharePoint guy." In his "Transform the My Site Into an Information Hub" session this afternoon at the...
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My post from a few weeks ago on whether or not it was possible to make a My Site Web Part available for use in a Team Site has elicited several responses requesting an update on the investigation, so I did some following up today. I started by checking in with our site Administrator who, as you may recall...
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First of all, thanks to Bamboo Solutions for their support of the SharePoint community, and of the Best Practices SharePoint Conference . In this blog post, I'll discuss some of the best practices concerning the use and implementation of My Sites. My Sites provide a personal portal, or a "one...
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I had noticed the appearance of the My OWA hyperlink in my My Site recently (in the same real estate that used to simply contain a My Site link), and thought to myself, "hmm, I wonder what that is?" Until today, however, my curiosity hadn't yet gotten the better of me, and the My OWA link...