Introduction

SharePoint 2013 site is a personal site for individual users in an organization. Although an organization can customize its sites, by default, the top of every page displays the tabs for Newsfeed, SkyDrive, and the sites. These social features are tightly integrated into SharePoint 2013 and are provided as my site. In this article, I will explain how to create and configure my site in SharePoint 2013.

Pre-Requisites

  1. Go to the SharePoint 2013 central administration site.
  2. Create a new Web Application.
    Web Application

Create a My Site collection

  1. Go to the SharePoint 2013 central administration site.
  2. Click Application Management.
    Application Management
  3. Click on Create Site Collection.
    Create Site Collection
  4. Give the Title, Description, and Site URL in the respective sections.
  5. Select 2013 as the select experience version list in the Template Selection section.
  6. In the Select a Template section, on the Enterprise tab, click My Site Host.
    Template Selection
  7. Give primary site collection administrator and secondary site collection administrator.
  8. Click OK to create My Site.

Wildcard Inclusion to the web application

  1. Go to the SharePoint 2013 central administration site.
  2. Click Application Management.
  3. Click Manage Web Application.
  4. Click created “MySiteCollection”.
  5. On the top navigation tab, click the Managed path.
    Managed path
  6. In a dialog box, in the Add a New Path section, in the Path, type “/tlg” followed by clicking Add Path and click OK.
    Add Path

Enable self-service site creation

  1. Go to the SharePoint 2013 central administration site.
  2. Click Application Management.
  3. In the Application Management section, click Manage Web Applications.
  4. Select the Web Application created.
  5. On the Web Applications tab, in the Security group, click Self-Service Site Creation.
    Security group
  6. “On” the site collection.
  7. Set the settings as shown below.
    Set the settings
  8. Click OK in the dialog box.

Configure the User Profile service application

  1. Go to the SharePoint 2013 central administration site.
  2. Click Application Management.
  3. Click Manage Service Application.
    Manage Service Application
  4. Click the “User Profile Service” Application. If “User Profile Service” is not present, create the new user profile Service by New -> User Profile Service Application and complete the steps.
    User Profile Service
    New
  5. On the Manage Profile Service page, click “Setup My Site” under My Site Settings.
    Manage Profile
  6. Enter “My Site Host location” as the site that we created, and the location is /tag.
  7. Click OK.

Enable User Profile Service Application for Activity Feed Job

  1. Go to the SharePoint 2013 central administration site.
  2. Click Monitoring
    Monitoring
  3. Click Review job definition.
    Click Monitoring
  4. Click “User Profile Service – Activity Feed Job”.
    User Profile Service
  5. Change the job settings and click Run now.
    Edit Timer Job

Configure “Following” settings for My Site

  1. Go to the SharePoint 2013 central administration site.
  2. Click Application Management.
  3. Click Manage Service Application.
    Following Management
  4. In the list of services, click “User Profile Services”.
    User Profile Services
  5. Click Manage Following under My Site Settings.
    My Site Setting
  6. Change the values for the people, documents, and sites mentioned below.
    Changes values
  7. Click OK.

Thus, My Site has been created, and the user profile service has been configured for my site.

My Profile

Summary

Thus, you have learned how to create and configure my site in SharePoint.