I’ve been working in my demo VM again today and had an issue where the creation of a MySite was timing out. Interestingly it’s taken ages for it to create one (about 2 minutes)! I’ve allocated 3Gb RAM to the VM and it’s still taking too long to demo how ‘slick’ this feature is in a presentation.

The MySite doesn't come up when I try and visit it so i've tried to delete it and go again. I used stsadmin to delete the MySite:

“stsadm -o deletesite -url  http://awhsvsp01:2222/personal/david”

and it came back stating:

“There is no top-level Web site named “http://awhsvsp01:2222/personal/david”.”

When I hit this url from the user or administrator page I get this rendered page:

“HTTP/1.1 404 Connection: close Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:37:17 GMT Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices: 12.0.0.4518”

I found this article which basically highlights the same thing I found too! So it doesn’t completely clean it up, I'm wondering how much more of this transactional type stuff it falls over on. Further rants here : rant 1 , rant 2

On the bright side, I found a nice little article on storing profile pictures in Active Directory so that when they do create their MySite it takes that photo as default and gives administrators control over their photo.

Here’s a good article on customising the MySite template also.

I found a quick reference to stsadmin, but there are plenty others out there.

Handy hint

I also found adding the below to your path makes it easier to fire off stsadmin:

“C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN”