Managing Personal Sites

The personal site location is the name of the directory where you want to create and store personal site directories for users. This directory is created immediately under the root directory. For example, if you click "personal," all of the personal site directories are created under http://servername/personal. You can change this location at any time without affecting the location of existing personal sites.

1. Click Site Settings, and then in the User Profile, Audiences, and Personal Sites section, click Manage personal sites.
2. On the Manage Personal Sites page, in the Personal Site Location section, in the Location list, select the location where you want to create and store all personal sites.
3. Click OK.

The site naming format describes the naming convention to use when creating directories for the personal sites for specific users, and how to resolve conflicts with existing directories. This is important because user names can potentially conflict with one another across multiple domains.

1. Click Site Settings, and then in the User Profile, Audiences, and Personal Sites section, click Manage personal sites.
2. On the Manage Personal Sites page, in the Site Naming Format section, select the naming format to use when creating and storing information for personal sites.
• User name (do not resolve conflicts)    Directories are named using the user name for each user. If the same user name occurs in multiple domains, information for the personal sites created for those user accounts is stored in the same location.
• User name (resolve conflicts by using domain_username)    Unless there is a naming conflict, all personal sites use the user name of the user that created them. In the case of conflicts, the new personal site is created in a directory with the format domain_username.
• Domain and user name (will not have conflicts)    All directories are created using a naming convention that includes the domain name. This avoids conflicts, but may be harder for users to remember.
3. Click OK.

You can decide which users can view personal sites by adding accounts and groups to the Reader site group.

1. Click Site Settings, and then in the User Profile, Audiences, and Personal Sites section, click Manage personal sites.
2. On the Manage Personal Sites page, in the Default Reader Site Group section, type the accounts or groups that you want to add to the Reader site group in the text box, separating accounts and groups by using commas.
3. You can also select accounts or groups to add to the Reader site group by clicking Edit.

The Default Reader Site Group page appears.

4. On the Default Reader Site Group page, in the Find by list, click the option for the name or alias of the user or security group for which you are searching.
5. Type the text for the name or alias for which you are searching, and click Find. All names or aliases starting with that text are returned in search results.
6. In the Results box, click the users or aliases that you want to add, and then click Add.
7. Search for and add as many users as you want, and then click OK.

The Default Reader Site Group page is closed.

8. Click OK.

1. On the navigation bar, click Site Settings.
2. On the Site Settings page, in the User Profile, Audiences, and Personal Sites section, click Manage profile database.
3. On the Manage Profile Database page, in the Profile and Import Settings section, click View user profiles.
4. Click the account name for the personal site that you want to manage, and then click Manage Personal Site.