How do you prevent users from creating personal sites?

Question

I have created 7 sites, one for each department and I will be setting up permissions for certain staff to manage them. What I would like to prevent is everyone clicking up in the right-hand corner on 'MySite' and creating their own personal site.  Is there a way to either keep this from happening or hiding the tabs from view?

Answer 1

You can grant the Personal Site permission to a subset of people in your organization by using one or more security groups.  This in effect will allow you to limit who can create a personal site.   By default all users have this right.

 

 

Answer 2

I am unsure where to do this.  Do I go to Central Admininstration, Application Management, Applications Security?  Or, do I set up security from the site collection, site directory?

I set up an individual user as a test and put him in a group with read only priviledges and he was still able to create his own site.

Answer 3

This is configured in your SSP.  Technet has some documentation you can refer to that should help

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/21dcf8aa-8a6e-4325-aa17-0188e491361c1033.mspx?mfr=true

 

Answer 4

Another way to achieve this is to disable Self-Site Creation on your web application. But this won't hide the link, so I think you should follow Bob's advice to complement this solution.