Justgeeking

One of my clients was having a problem with their MySites and MyLinks missing from the top right corner of their SharePoint Sites. The following are the items that could possible cause this to occur.

1. MySite Feature not activated

MySite is a hidden feature and if it is not activated then these links will not be available. Now before you get excited and go check your site collection features….this feature is hidden and is not listed even in central admin…don’t ask. So you have no idea if it is activated or not.  To confirm I would just perform the following commands

stsadm -o deactivefeature -name MySite
stsadm -o activatefeature -name MySite

2. Personalization Services Permissions

Central Admin > SSP > Personalization services permissions under User Profiles and My Sites. Make sure that the appropriate users have “Personal Site”(MySites) & “Personal Features” (My Links).

3. Custom Master Page

There is a chance that your master page or CSS has been altered in a manner that causes these links to not be visible. The best way to test this is to create a site that uses the generic SharePoint master page or even see if the links are present within Central Administrator.