Want to change your MOSS MySite URL?

Recently I had a customer who wanted to change the URL of his MySite Application in MOSS.
He had the MySites running with a non-standard port, for example 1234:
1-port1234

He wanted to change the URL to, let’s say testapp.local.
Here is what you need to do:

1. Extend the MySite Web Application
2-extendwebapp

2. With the extension of a Web Application, you create an additional Alternate Access Mapping entry. You have to edit the entries for the MySite Application:
3-AAM1 4-swap1

3. It should look like this when you swapped the entries:
5-AAM2

4. Make an IISRESET to apply the changes.

6. Now your MySite Link should point to the new URL with Hostheader:
6-result

That’s it!

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One Response to “Want to change your MOSS MySite URL?”

  1. Bob Says:

    Hmmm… what about:

    1. Checking on sharepoint’s changes to the web.config file? (SP loves to fiddle)
    2. Renaming (now) incorrectly named folders in inetpub? (i.e. they still have the old name)
    3. Updating secure hostheaders via adsutil.vbs? (if ssl used)
    4. SSP / search / indexing:
    content sources – update urls?
    shared scopes – update urls?
    crawl rules – update urls?
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\MSV1_0 – update urls? (+reboot)
    reset all crawled content?
    ’start update now’ under scopes?
    check crawl log for errors?
    5. Reactivating features?

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