SharePoint 2010: How to Configure Mysite

Create the My Site Web Application

We begin by first creating a Web Application that house our My Site.

Navigate to

 *  Go to Central Administration
 * Select Application Management
 * Create a New Web Applications


  • Authentication: Classic Mode Authentication
  • IIS Web Site: SharePoint – My Site
  • Authentication Provider: NTLM
  • Public URL: http://mysite.spdev.local:120/
  • Application Pool: SharePoint – My Site
  • Configurable user: DOMAIN\SPMYSITEACC
  • Database Name and Authentication: WSS_Content_MYSITE 


Create the My Site Host Site Collection

Now that we have successfully created our My Site Web Application, we can now proceed to create our My Site Host Site Collection. This will be the top level site that will house our individual user’s site collections.

Navigate to

 * Central Administration
* Application Management
* Create site collections

Ensure that the recently created My Site Web Application is selected, enter in a Title and click select the My Site Host Template located under the Enterprise Tab. Lastly, specify your site collection administrators and click OK.

Setup My Sites

Now that we have successfully provisioned our My Site Web, we can continue to configure our My Site Settings.

Navigate to

Central Administration
Application Management
Manage service applications.
User Profiles.

Click on Setup My Sites located under My Site Settings.



For defining our Mysite configuration, please perform the next steps:



  
Add our Managed Path :

Because we have specified “personal” as our Personal Site Location, we will need to define our managed path against our My Site Web Application.
Navigate to

    Central Administration
    Application Management
    Manage Web Applications.

Click on your My Site Web Application and click on Managed Paths from the Ribbon.



Add “personal” as a Wildcard inclusion, click Add Path and click OK


Enable Self-Service Creation

Our last configuration step provides our users with the privilege to provision their own My Site’s by enabling the Self-Service Creation.
Click on your My Site Web Application and click on Self-Service Site Creation.



Select On and click OK.




My Content

As you can see, we have to click on My Content, to have all the items related on you.

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