Create a My Site host location

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Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Topic Last Modified: 2008-06-25

Before you perform this procedure, confirm that:

  • You have read the topic Manage My Site host locations.

  • Your system is running either the Standard or Enterprise version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

    Important

    You must be a member of the Farm Administrators group to perform this procedure.

Farm administrators can create a new My Site host location. A My Site host location is created by default in the Web application for the portal site, so this procedure is only necessary if you are migrating My Sites for reasons such as performance, storage capacity, or security.

To create a new My Site host location, you perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new Web application for the My Site host location. In most cases, you can accept the default settings for a new Web application.

  2. Create a site collection within the Web application for the My Site host location, selecting the My Site Host site template and the Personal Site quota template.

  3. Browse to the site collection and click the option to set the site collection as the My Site host location.

After a new host location is created, personal sites created in a previous host location remain in the previous host location, and cannot be accessed unless a link to that location is added to the trusted My Site host locations list. For more information on trusted My Site host locations links, see Add trusted My Site host locations link.

Use the following procedures to create a My Site host location.

Create a Web application for the My Site host location

Create a Web application for the My Site host location

  1. On the Central Administration home page, on the top link bar, click the Application Management tab.

  2. On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Web Application Management section, click Create or extend Web application.

  3. On the Create or Extend Web Application page, click Create a new Web application.

  4. On the Create New Web Application page, in the IIS Web Site section, click Create a new IIS web site, as follows:

    1. In the Description box, accept the given description or type a new description for the Web application.

    2. In the Port box, accept the given value or type a new value for the port the Web application will use.

    3. In the Host Header box, type a host header if desired.

    4. In the Path box, accept the given path or type a new path.

  5. In the Security Configuration section, under Authentication provider, select either Negotiate (Kerberos) or NTLM.

  6. In the Load Balanced URL section, in the URL box, type the URL that will be used to access the Web application. The URL should be in the format https://server_name:port. If multiple zones have been configured on the server, you can optionally click a zone in the Zone list.

  7. In the Application Pool section, select one of the following:

    • Use existing application pool. If you select this option, click an application pool to use from the corresponding list.

    • Create a new application pool. If you select this option, configure the following:

      1. In the Application pool name box, type the name of the new application pool.

      2. Under Select a security account for this application pool, select either Predefined or Configurable. If you select Predefined, click the security account to use in the corresponding list. If you select Configurable, type the account credentials in the User name and Password boxes.

  8. In the Database Name and Authentication section, under Database authentication, select one of the following:

    • Windows authentication (recommended)

    • SQL authentication. Select this option if you have already created the database and want to use SQL authentication. If you select this option, type the account credentials in the Account and Password boxes.

  9. Click OK.

Create a site collection within the Web application for the My Site host location

Create a site collection within the Web application for the My Site host location

  1. On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Site Management section, click Create site collection.

  2. On the Create Site Collection page, in the Web Application section, in the Web Application menu, select the Web application that you just created.

  3. In the Title and Description section, type a title and description for the site collection.

  4. In the Web Site Address section, under URL, select a site prefix to designate whether the URL creates the site collection at the main directory for the Web application, or in the sites subdirectory. Then type a site name in the adjacent text box.

    Note

    The sites directory is often used for My Site host locations.

  5. In the Template Selection section, in the Select a template box, click the Enterprise tab.

  6. Click My Site Host.

  7. In the Primary Site Collection Administrator section, type an account to use as the primary site collection administrator.

  8. In the Secondary Site Collection Administrator section, type an account to use as the secondary site collection administrator.

  9. In the Quota Template section, in the Select a quota template section, click Personal Site.

  10. Click OK.

Set the site collection as the My Site host location

Set the site collection as the My Site host location

  1. Browse to the URL of the site collection that you just created. Click Set as My Site host.

  2. On the My Site Settings page, in the Personal Site Services section, in the Personal site Provider menu, type the URL for the Web application that you created as the My Site host location.

  3. In the Personal Site Location section, in the Location box, type the URL for the site collection that you created.

  4. Click OK.

  5. On the confirmation message, click Yes.