Personal sites and the My Site feature are separate features that are both available only in SharePoint Portal Server. Although the names of these two features are often used as synonyms for each other, they are not the same. Site administrators need a good understanding of the architectural differences between the two features to understand differences in the behavior of each.
Personal sites are Windows SharePoint Services sites that are created for individual users. Every user who has the Create Personal Site right can have a personal site. By default, the location of a user's personal site is portalname/personal/username, where portalname is the name of the portal and username is the name of the individual user.
My Site is a single page located in the SharePoint Portal Server site. By default, the path for this page is portalname/My Site/default.asp, where portalname is the name of the portal. Every user who accesses the My Site URL downloads the same page. However, users often don't realize this because some of the information on the page is personalized based on the user's profile information and information from the user's personal site.
So the difference between My Site and personal sites is that My Site is the portal page through which all users must pass to get to their own personal site. A user links to his personal site through the My Site page. It is hard to recognize that the My Site portal page is the same for everyone because it has personalization features. My Site is personalized based on a user's profile information, and it includes links to document libraries and lists that the user has created on her personal site.
The major architectural difference is that the My Site page is owned and controlled by the site owner, while a personal site is owned and controlled by the user. This means that a user can customize the contents and views of her personal site; however, when a user tries to personalize the My Site page, the choices are limited
No comments:
Post a Comment