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Targeting Links to Personal Sites<br />

Chapter 8: Planning Your Information Structure 179<br />

The SharePoint Portal Server administrator can target links to a user or a group of<br />

users that will be shown on the Links For You Web Part on a user’s personal site.<br />

This feature, called Manage Targeted Links On Personal Site, is available only on the<br />

portal site that provides shared services.<br />

Planning Personal Sites<br />

The My Site feature of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 enables each employee in the<br />

corporate portal site to create <strong>and</strong> manage a personal site. Personal sites provide a<br />

mechanism for person-to-person collaboration. Each personal site has two interfaces:<br />

■ The public interface, which is accessible to all users. The owner of the site<br />

decides what information to share.<br />

■ The private interface, which contains information available only to the owner<br />

of the site.<br />

When shared services are enabled in the corporate portal site, this portal site<br />

will host personal sites by default <strong>and</strong> all personal site links in the other portal sites<br />

will redirect users to http://corp/Mysite or the portal site that is selected to host My<br />

Sites in a shared services deployment.<br />

Prerequisites for Personal Sites<br />

User profiles must be part of the planning for personal sites. To create a personal<br />

site, each user needs a user profile <strong>and</strong> the required permissions. To enable users to<br />

create personal sites, the portal site administrator must add users to the prebuilt<br />

member site group of the portal site. Audience groups must be created for targeting<br />

links <strong>and</strong> content.<br />

Web Parts in Personal Sites<br />

Some Web Parts are added to personal sites when they are created. Other Web Parts<br />

can be added after the site has been created. Web Parts perform three main functions:<br />

■ Viewing <strong>and</strong> managing information that a user has selected. One example is<br />

My Alerts Summary, which shows a list of alerts that a user has subscribed to.<br />

Another is My Links Summary, which presents a list of links that a user has<br />

added.<br />

■ Providing content <strong>and</strong> links that are targeted to the user by the portal site<br />

administrator or others. Examples of this are Links For You <strong>and</strong> News For You.

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