MySite Series Archive

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    SP2010 MySites – Part Six: MySite Centric

    This is the sixth article in a series which explores the SharePoint 2010 MySite features. This article will discuss the approach taken to use the MySite as the centre of the intranet.

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    SP2010 MySites – Part Five: Blog

    This is the fifth article in a series which explores the SharePoint 2010 MySite features. This article will examines the default Blog creation and highlight changes required to customise this default. Series contents: Overview, which details the MySite functionality provided by SP2010 Anatomy, we delve...

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    SP2010 MySites – Part Four: My Content

    This is the fourth article in a series which explores the SharePoint 2010 MySite features. This article will examine the ways that you can customise the default page for the MySite. It will describe the common requirement and how to approach them in a supportable and scalable fashion. The walkthrough will provide an example implementation which you can tailor to your exact needs.

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    SP2010 MySites – Part Three: Branding

    This is the third article in a series which explores the SharePoint 2010 MySite features. This article will examine the ways that you can change the look and feel of the MySite. We’ll look at the ways you can modify the visual elements and also the techniques you can employ to apply custom branding such as masterpage and a custom theme.

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    SP2010 MySites – Part Two: Anatomy

    This is the second article in a series which explores the SharePoint 2010 MySite features. This article will examine the various elements that get brought together to form a MySite in SharePoint 2010. Gaining a detailed understanding of these elements will help us to target areas during customisations. As with most areas of SharePoint I believe it’s important to understand what you have before cracking open Visual Studio to make customisation.

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    SP2010 MySites – Part One: Overview

    This is the first article in a series which explores the SharePoint 2010 MySite features. SharePoint 2010 has brought with it vast arrays of improvements and several of these are focused around ‘Social’ features. Many of us are familiar with Facebook, LinkedIn and other sites which bring people together to share personal information. Within SharePoint this is provided by the MySite concept.

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