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Both are described in this section. My Sites also requires a managed metadata service application. We recommend that you also have a Search service application to use with My Sites, but this is not required. Without the Search service application, some My Sites functionality is affected. Although you can use an existing web application, for optimal performance and security, we recommend that you create the My Site host site collection in a dedicated web application.

For more information, see Create a web application in SharePoint Server. If a My Site host site collection was created during initial deployment and configuration, we recommend that you do not use it because it was created in the default web application.

Delete this site collection, and create a new web application that is dedicated to hosting My Sites. Then create a new My Site host site collection in the dedicated web application.

Although the Create New User Profile service application dialog requests information in the My Site Host URL and Personal Site Location sections, for this task, remove any default values and leave those fields blank when you create the User Profile service application. Additionally, you can select any of the options in Site Naming Format.

These settings will be configured separately later in this task. This section only applies to SharePoint Server Optionally, configure profile synchronization if you want to synchronize user and group profile information that is stored in the SharePoint Server profile database with profile information that is stored in a directory service or business system. This site collection must be created in the web application that you want to host My Sites.

Generally, this site collection can be created at the root path of the web application, although it can be created as an explicit inclusion managed path deeper in the URL as long as there is a site collection created at the web application root. On the Create Site Collection page, in the Web Application section, ensure that the selected web application is the web application that you want to host My Sites.

If it is not, expand the list, and then click Change Web Application. In the Select Web Application dialog, select a different web application. In the Title and Description section, type a title and description for the site collection. Optionally, in the Quota Template section, select a quota template for the My Site host site collection.

This quota template does not affect the individual site collections that users create for their My Sites. The wildcard inclusion managed path is the path under which separate site collections are created for a user's My Site.

Creation of the site collection occurs the first time that a user views the user's My Site. This functionality is available only when self-service site creation is also enabled.

Enabling self-service site creation is discussed later in this article. On the Web Applications Management page, select the web application that you created to host My Sites. The web application that hosts My Sites must be connected to service applications in SharePoint Server.

The User Profile service application is required for My Sites. The managed metadata service application and Search service application are highly recommended. Additionally, if you have other SharePoint sites from which you want users to be able to access their My Site and About Me links from the upper-right corner menu, connect the web applications of those sites to the User Profile service application.

In the Configure Service Application Associations dialog, in the Edit the following group of connections list, select default if the default group contains the service applications that you want to connect to the web application.

Self-service site creation enables the automatic creation of a separate site collection for users when they first view their My Site. On the Web Applications page, select the web application that you created to host My Sites.

Comprehensive security features and a simple, single sign-on process. Charged on a per-user license basis — only pay for what you need. Access to all the latest SharePoint features, with all updates managed by Microsoft. Number of site collections. SharePoint defaults to a single data collection, which may meet the requirements of many smaller organizations. If your site will support several projects or departments, you should look at organizing your data into multiple collections.

Ease of navigation. Can users intuitively store and locate information? Limit user options. Too many content type choices can make your site difficult to use and lead to user errors. Choose a simple folder structure.

Select a site template that meets your business objective and then select Apply. Browse your new site, review existing content in Site contents , and get customization guidance below. Republish site edits to make new content available to viewers.

Select your template from the list below for step-by-step guidance on how to customize your site to align with your business objectives and organizational branding. Important: Site templates provided by your organization will appear in the From your organization tab when selecting a template type. Customization instructions will vary depending on the site template design.

Crisis management. Engage and connect viewers with departmental news, highlight upcoming events, and provide easy access to frequently accessed files. Leadership connection. Build organizational culture by connecting leadership and team members through engaging in conversation, news, and events.

Learning central. Provide an internal landing experience for your organization that serves as the single place where events, news, and extra-curricular resources are showcased. New employee onboarding.

Streamline and refine new hire onboarding by engaging and guiding new employees through your onboarding process. Volunteer center. Provide a central hub for volunteers in your nonprofit organization to engage and access key information and resources for training, onboarding, upcoming events, and more. Event planning.

Coordinate and plan event details with your team. Use ready-made event recap and event status news post templates to quickly get your team up to date.

Project management. Create a collaboration space for your team where you can access frequent tools, share project updates, post meeting notes, and upload team documents. Training and courses. Prepare course participants and students for specific learning opportunities by sharing course resources, news, and events. Training and development team. Retail Management. Team collaboration. Site templates created by your organization, also known as third-party templates, can be found in the tab titled From your organization when selecting a site template.

The next box is Add members. Fill in the names or emails of people you want to be members of your site. Now click Finish , and the creation will be completed. SharePoint adds default modules or web parts to the template you choose. Click Page in the top left corner, then click Edit. Repeat the action for every web part you need to clean. It is not enough to build a SharePoint site to maximize its potential.

You also need to know how to set up a SharePoint site and customize it to your specific requirements. Every developer wants to create a unique design that will differ from default templates for their specific purposes.

To achieve that, you have to customize the look of your site. Click the Settings tab and then click Change the look. There, you can choose one of the default themes and customize it by changing the main and accent colors click Customize theme.

You can also create and upload your company theme that will reflect your brand and style. You will see a preview of the selected option.

In the tab Settings — Site information , you can also change the logo, title and description. They are the building blocks of your site, and they will help make the site more user-friendly. Click Site Contents — Add an App.

Then choose a necessary app from the list library, calendar, contacts, tasks, image gallery, link, etc. The Library usually requires many configurations; Calendar, Contacts and Tasks can be used out of the box the default selection of properties is great. You can create additional pages for your website. You can also add columns and sections to a page. By clicking Save and close, you save all changes. Users will see a new page only after you click Publish. You can edit your page later.

Go to Site Contents on the left side of your site, click Pages and choose the one you want to change. Click Edit at the top right, make the necessary changes, click Save and close, then Publish an edited page. Security of your team site is derived from the top level site. Nevertheless, you have the ability to set up unique security for each part. By default, SharePoint uses security groups, so you can add users to these groups, but not directly to the site.