Customising My Site in MOSS 2010

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/spsocial/archive/2010/03/30/customizing-my-sites-in-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.aspx

A theme with the name "CustomMySite 1011" and version already exists on the server.

You receive this error when trying to apply a custom theme to your SharePoint site:

"A theme with the name "CustomMySite 1011" and version already exists on the server. "

1. Open your site in SharePoint Designer.
2. Expand _themes and delete the CustomMySite theme folder
3. Re-apply the custom theme to your site.
   

Adding New SSP Administrators

http://blogs.msdn.com/sgoodyear/archive/2007/06/20/adding-new-ssp-administrators.aspx

When you add a new user account to the SSP site, even if you grant them Full Control permissions or add them as a Site Collection Administrator, initially they will experience access denied error messages when they click on any of the following links on the SSP Admin page:

* User profiles and properties
* Profile services policies
* My Site settings
* Personalization services permissions
* Audiences
* Import application definition
* Business Data Catalog permissions

These sections need to have permissions explicitly set. Initially, the setup account will have full access to the SSP, so use that account to grant rights to new SSP administrators you wish to delegate SSP administrative duties to.

Notice the items highlighted in bold in the list above. These are where you assign the remaining SSP permissions. Adding new SSP administrators to the "Personalization services permissions" section and granting appropriate rights will grant rights related to the first five links in the list above. Repeating the process in the "Business Data Catalog permissions" section will grant rights related to the last two links.

At this point, the new SSP administrator has all the appropriate access permissions they need to administrate the SSP.

My Site Horizontal Navigation

To add tabs for specific users to their My Site:

• Open Shared Services and navigate to Personalisation Site Links
• Add a new item providing URL, Owner & Target Audience
• Click Ok
• Refresh My Site and you should see the new link in between the My Home and the My Profile tabs

Customising My Site

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/03/22/customizing-moss-2007-my-sites-within-the-enterprise.aspx

Setting the master page for My Site (half way there)

Well it works for me so time for a pint then ;)

Actually there's a small breakthrough; it also works for everyone else, but only on the My Profile page.

To do this open My Site in SharePoint Designer and open the Person.aspx file.

At the top of the page change the master page reference to point to your custom master file:

• MasterPageFile="_catalogs/masterpage/CustomMaster.master"

This should update all My Sites