One custom request I haven’t ran across to often is to add a custom search center of the My Sites within SharePoint MOSS.

Typically, when you do a search within My Sites it will default back to whatever search center, if any, you set up for the main site. The one thing to keep in mind is that each My Site is it’s own separate site collection. This means that if you create a new search center subsite then point the search settings to that My Site it will only be for that one My Site. Other My Sites will still be pointed back to the default.

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One of the most common questions when someone starts to use SharePoint is how to add users. What most people don’t understand is that SharePoint actually does not provide a way to authenticate or control password accounts. SharePoint will actually depends on Active Directory (AD) (or whatever methodology you provide) where that information is held and controlled. You can have hundreds of user accounts in AD but they won’t be in your SharePoint farm until you specifically add them.

Active Directory Part

As an example here we have our sharepoint.local domain with our demo users.

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