Sharepoint 2013 Community Site

 SharePoint 2013 we have the new "Community Site". Top create one simply access the "Site Contents" link and then select the link to create a new sub site and choose the community site.

Once it has been created you should get something that looks like this:

As you can see there are great features right here on the home page. The middle of the site contains the aggregation of things that are important to the community site.

New discussions can be created very easily by select the link and completing the following details. Notice the new option "I am asking a question and want to get answers from other members".

Once it is added it renders on the home page with other details and easy to click link to get access to the body of the discussion.

Inline reply can be achieve by accessing the discussion item and then adding your reply using the web part underneath the discussion item.

As an administrator on the right if the actual discussion I can perform the following actions:

Selecting to manage the discussion takes you directly to the hosting list of the discussion where you can see the full details of the item. Plus you also get to use the ribbon bar feature to designate a featured discussion.

You can create categories by using the second link, more importantly you can assign badges to members.

Once set this then adds the simple tag to the user in the site.

Setting the reputation settings allows for you to set what the thresholds are for the users reputation score.

On this page you can also manage the badges that are assigned to the users.

Some base settings can be updated using "Community Settings".

With all the settings for reputation completed you are then able to see the following about the members of the site.

Configure Mysite in Sharepoint 2010

Create the My Site Web Application

We begin by first creating a Web Application that will eventually house our My Site Host and subsequent site collections.

Navigate to Central Administration / Application Management / Web Applications

Click New

IIS Web Site: Create a new IIS web site (enter your details as per your requirements)

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.

You should then receive confirmation that the top level My Site Host has been successfully created.

Setup My Sites

Now that we have successfully provisioned our My Site Web Application and Top Level Site Collection that will host our My Sites, we can continue to configure our My Site Settings.

Navigate to Central Administration / Application Management / Manage service applications.

Click on User Profiles.

Click on Setup My Sites located under My Site Settings.

Enter the details of your Preferred Search Center if you have one setup already.

Enter the URL of your My Site Host that we have just created in the previous step and the personal site location.

Finally, select your Site Naming format, configure your Language Options, Permissions and My Site Email Notifications.

Click OK.

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.

Navigate back to Central Administration / Application Management / Manage Web Applications.

Click on your My Site Web Application and click on Self-Service Site Creation.

Select On and click OK.

If I now browse to my My Site URL I will be presented with the following “What’s New” Page.

It is only until I click on “My Content”, that SharePoint will proceed to create my personal site as per SharePoint 2007.

My Content

Enable My Newsfeed Recent Activity in Sharepoint 2010 MySite

I setup My Site awhile ago and was wondering why the Newsfeed and Recent activities hasn't been updating.

I found that there is a Timer Job called User Profiles - Activity Feed Job that was disabled. After enabling it everything started working as expected.

Not sure why it was disabled, but if you experience this too you can enable the Timer Job through Central Administration > Monitoring > Review Job Definitions.

By default it is run hourly.

Vishal