Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

652 Part VII: Information Management in SharePoint Products and Technologies
To select the personal site location
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 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.
To select the site naming format for personal sites
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. For example, you can specify that a new personal site is created in a
directory with the format domain_username.
3. Click OK.
To add accounts and groups to the Reader site group for personal sites
Personal sites are important when organizations want to share information
about their employees, at least within the company itself. In most cases, you should
consider giving all your employees reader access to all personal sites. 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 the groups to add to the Reader site group by
clicking Edit. The Default Reader Site Group page appears.