ARCHIVED: At IU, what is a SharePoint My Site?

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Note:

The SharePoint on-premises service is being replaced by SharePoint Online, available since July 2016. For more, see ARCHIVED: About the SharePoint retirement.

  • If you are a SharePoint site owner whose site has been disabled, you can visit SharePoint Standard Farm Migration to request an extension/re-enable. SharePoint will be permanently disabled no later than June 2, 2017; most sites should have migrated to SharePoint Online by March 31, 2017. Sites scheduled to be disabled on March 31 were disabled on April 3, 2017.
  • ARCHIVED: SharePoint My Sites were permanently retired on April 3, 2017.

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Overview

At Indiana University, a SharePoint My Site is an individual web space provided to graduate students, faculty, and staff. My Sites are most useful for providing a web-based application for storing and editing documents and other content. Your My Site is also a social site you can use to network with your colleagues and track information of interest. There are three basic areas within a My Site:

  • My Newsfeed: Check your newsfeed for updates on your colleagues.
  • My Content: Add personal and shared documents you can access from any computer, edit your documents in the browser, and create a personal blog. Your My Site has a 20 GB storage quota.
  • My Profile: Add and edit personal details.

Eligibility and access

My Sites are available to IU graduate students, faculty, and staff. Others may be eligible with a faculty or staff sponsor. Faculty or staff sponsors should contact their campus Support Center to request access for others.

To create a site using My Site, log into the My SharePoint home page using your Network ID.

To access someone else's My Site, use the following URL, replacing username with the person's Network ID username:

  https://my.sharepoint.iu.edu/personal/username
Note:
If you have difficulties logging in, see ARCHIVED: Why am I having trouble logging into UITS SharePoint service at IU?

Managing your documents

In your SharePoint My Site, you can use the My Content area to store personal and shared documents, and access them from any computer on the Internet. Click My Content to manage documents on your site. For more, see ARCHIVED: In my SharePoint My Site, how do I manage documents?

For more about managing documents, see:

Managing your profile

My Sites also provide personal profiles to help you connect with colleagues. Click My Profile to manage your profile on your site. For information on managing your profile, see Microsoft's SharePoint Server Help and How-to for My Sites.

Help and resources

For more general help with SharePoint My Sites, see Microsoft's My Sites support page and Getting started with your My Site.

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