1. Personal site - Architecture and Administration
Microsoft SharePoint
11/8/2018
Personal site - Architecture and Administration
Chris Gideon
Architect
Microsoft
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2. Public Page, Personal Site, Social Features
SP2013 social features mostly rely on data in the person’s personal site and Distributed Cache
Two lists are used social features: the Microfeed list and the Social List
Personal site document libraries have been re-designed as well
Profile Database is still used for following people and tags
Personal Site
Microfeed
Private
Public
Social
Sites
Docs
My Documents
MFs
Profile DB
We will discus what each list do and how it behaves in the Social infrastructure in the next slides.
Social DB is Still there
Better scalability
There’s no mention of the host and the temporary feed attachments list + Profile photos
Social DB

3. Microfeed List Microfeed List: contains all user and system activity
Stores user generated activities (i.e. Microblogging posts) and system generated activities (e.g. Notification of a change in profile or following changes)
Users and administrators control which system generated activities are shown as activity feeds via privacy settings in policies
Majority of user activities are available to all authenticated users
Same for system activities
Activities related to content sensitivity are security trimmed
(e.g. following a document)
Every time a new system activity or user activity happens a new entry is created in this list and in the Distributed Cache*
*exceptions apply
* Exceptions apply in both cases: there are things that get written only in Velocity and things that get written only in MF list.
User Generated activities:
                Microblogging posts
System generated activities
                Whatever generated on behalf of the user
What gets trimmed before showing in the consolidated feeds WP as well as in your activities WP:
Document changes
Site changes
Tagging content
Following document
Following sites
Thing that don’t get trimmed:
Microblogging posts (exception for the posts in Site Conversations)
Tagging microblogging posts
Following tags
Following people

4. Privacy Settings
Central Administration Settings
Available in Central Administration in the User Profile Service Application
Administrators govern profile information that users can or cannot manage
Users can always override Admin settings regarding activities and following people privacy settings.
Simplified compared to SharePoint 2010 Policy settings:
Privacy setting is now “Only me” or “Everyone”
Personal Site Settings
"User can override" does NOT exist anymore, the user will always be able to override the Admin setting.
In short: Admin cannot force the user to either share or not share.

5. Privacy Settings
Upgrade from 2010 environments will preserve other privacy settings when different from the one above
After migration, any changes to “Only me” or “Everyone” will not allow people to set other privacy settings
Although that is still available through OM.

6. Privacy Settings
Admins can also enable a “default“ privacy setting to make people following information and activities public.
Blocks administrators in CA from controlling privacy settings of newsfeed activities
Message informs administrators that policy control is override
If unchecked there are no system activities in Microfeed.

7. Introduction to Personal Site
demo

8. 11/8/2018 2:47 PM
© 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
© 2010 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.