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Requirement: Pre-create OneDrive for Business Sites using PowerShell. OneDrive for Business is Microsoft’s cloud-based storage solution that lets users store and work on files that are personal to them. It’s similar to a SharePoint Online document library with full control granted to users so that they can add, update, and delete files…
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When a user creates SharePoint My Site or OneDrive for Business site collection, SharePoint assigns primary site collection administrator rights to the user. You may sometimes have to gain Admin access in situations such as a User leaving the organization, troubleshooting, etc. In SharePoint on-premises environments, we have the “User Policy” option…
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SharePoint 2016 brought new social networking capabilities to the SharePoint collaboration space. With My Sites, users can store documents, keep up their profile information in the news feed, contribute to the organization via blogs, and follow activities on sites, people, tags, documents, etc.! In short: My Site is the personal space for…
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Once the My site host web application and a site collection is created, the next step is to configure the user profile service application to use the My site host. Here is how to set my site host in user profile service application of SharePoint 2016. Make sure your My Site URL…
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My Site host is a prerequisite for configuring user profile service applications in SharePoint (Although you can provide My site host URL later, it’s a best practice to have it ready prior to creating a user profile service application). Creating My Site Host in SharePoint involves the following steps: How to Create…
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SharePoint My Sites are automatically created when users click on the My Content link in the welcome menu, for the first time. However, To promote the usage of SharePoint social, we deiced to pre-create SharePoint My sites for all users. Create My site for All Users in SharePoint using PowerShell Here is…
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Suppose you want to check SharePoint user profile properties quickly. In that case, You can get it from the user information list or by simply clicking on user name hyperlinks from metadata fields such as: Created by. Usually, the user profile page points to: https://sharepointsite.com/_layouts/userdisp.aspx?ID=123 When clicked on the user name hyperlink,…
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As the name indicates, SharePoint 2013 promoted sites provide a way to list important sites to the user community. These promoted sites appear under the “Sites” section of the user’s My Site. For promoted sites to work, we need user profile service application up and running(Obviously, we need SharePoint server at least,…
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Problem: Membership Web part on SharePoint My Sites is not Updated! still displays old data. Solution: Trigger a user profile full import! That will update membership web part on SharePoint My sites! Here is how: Go to Central Administration >> Pick the relevant Shared Service Provider Click on “User profiles and properties”…
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When end-user tries to create My sites by clicking the “My Content” link for the first time, They encountered this error message: “There has been an error creating the personal site. Contact your site administrator for more information” Troubleshooting: 1. Make sure User Profile Service Application & My Sites configuration is proper….
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