Apply Custom Masterpage to all subsites

How to apply custom master page and theme to all sub sites in SharePoint 2010?

1. Go to Site Actions | Site Settings
2. Click on Manage Site Features

3. Activate SharePoint Server Publishing

4. Go to Site Actions | Site Settings again and under Look and Feel click on Master Page

 

5. In Site Master Page click on the drop down and select your custom master page. If your not sure how to create custom master page, please see : http://virtualizesharepoint.com/category/sharepoint-2010-branding/

6.  Put a check in Reset all subsites to inherit this site master page setting and click OK in the bottom of the page

This will apply custom master page to all sub sites in SharePoint

Adding an extra server to an existing farm

Here’s how that can be done:

1. Install Windows Server 2003 R2
2. Install IIS 6.0 
3. Install .Net 2.0 and .Net 3.0
4. Fully patch the server with the respective service packs and security updates
5. In Internet Information Services Manager remeber to allow ASP.Net in the Web Service Extensions section. 
6. Join the server to the domain where the rest of the farm belong to, if you haven’t already done so
7. Add the MOSS installation account to the local administrators group.

Install MOSS and join the server to the existing farm

1. Install using the MOSS installation account
2. Start MOSS Setup, enter your license key and accept the license agreement
3. Select Advanced and Complete install
4. Run the SharePoint Product and Technologies Configuration Wizard
5. Connect to an existing farm
6. Enter the MOSS database server end click Retrieve Database Names. The Database Name and Username fields are automatically populated. Enter the password and click Next
7. In Advanced Setting make sure that this server will not host the Central Administration site and click Next
8.  That’s it. The new server is now member of the farm. Use Central Administration to configure it for the purpose it is intended (Web Front-end, indexing etc)

How to Restrict the users to create Mysite

How To disable Mysite Creation :




Open Central admin and click on Application Management | Manage Service Applications

Once there click on User Profile Service Application

You now need to click on manage user permissions under the People section

Once you click manage user permissions you will be presented with a windows as illustrated below

By default Authenticated users and All Authenticated users are in and enabled to create my sites out of the box. I will remove all permissions and now the user will see no my site link

The easiest way to manage a large amount of users is to create a security group in Active Directory I will call my My Site Users and drop the users in as you require them to use My Site.

I will now add my new security group into the permissions section to allow the creation of my site

But I will only allow Create Personal Site and then go through what the other tick boxes allow.