Mathias Osterkamp

Specialist – focus development Microsoft technology stack

Mysite - Redirects

Mysite - Redirects
Redirect Mysite to a modern Page Goal SharePoint 2019 OnPremise has still the classic MySite. To support a modern page you could build it on top of the default MySite host, but this is not the best way. With a redirect based solution you don’t change anything to existing code. Just build your new MySite features on a new page on a different WebApplication and SiteCollection based on modern theme. All important links should be redirected.

Migrate User Profile My Links

Problem SharePoint users can store favorite links directly inside the mysite. If you like to migrate to another SharePoint version or different server maybe you like to transfer these links without copy the database. In general these links are stored in the ProfileDB of your server. There is a smart article about this from Vinods source. Here a small sample, where you can edit links: source Solution I wrote a improved script to import and export the data via xml.