Best Practices

• Before actively enlisting users to create My Site sites, the farm administrator should verify that all the Central Administration components are properly configured and meet the needs of the organization and that AD synchronization is functional.

• For many organizations, a recommended best practice is to create a new web application and My Sites Host site collection and a User Profile service application. Not only is this a great way to better understand how My Site sites work, but it allocates a web application to the My Sites host, which can then be more granularly managed.

• Site collection administrators of the My Site host can manage permissions from the My Site host, and if a dedicated web application is used to host ...

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