Within SharePoint 2010, the right-hand context menu includes a link for a user to navigate to their “MySite” – assuming the User Profiles Service – and MySiteHost is configured and working, etc.
There are a few pieces to the MySite – the ‘shared area (host)’ – and then the MySite’s themselves – one for each user. The user area is actually a different site collection – that’s just the way MySites work.
When the user clicks “My Site” – the default place to go is the landing place for the “My Site Host” Site Collection.
It follows that this is simply another type of Site Collection – a very special Site Collection – but none-the-less, there’s a landing page – and you can CHANGE it.
This can be done via POWERSHELL – to one of the pages within the Site Collection. This is thus the “welcome page” for the Site Collection.
Here’s the pages you can choose from :
- default.aspx
- person.aspx
- organizationview.aspx
- personcontent.aspx
- tagprofile.aspx
The steps to do this are :
- Get the site for the MySiteHost
- Get the RootFolder
- Set the Welcome Page
- Update
Here’s the actual CODE (PowerShell)…
- $site = Get-SPSite http://server/mysitehost/
- $web = $site.RootWeb
- $folder = $web.RootFolder
- $folder.WelcomePage = "personcontent.aspx"
- $folder.update()
- $web.update()
- $web.Dispose()
- $site.Dispose()
In the following screen shot, I’ve update to “PERSONCONTENT.ASPX”. This shows the MySite with the tab for ‘Content’ already open.
The user can then navigate to their MySite directly – as shown.
Easy, eh !?
Hope you can use this cool tip.
