When you configure a portal site as the personal site
provider in a shared services environment in SharePoint Portal Server 2003, and
you search for a user profile in the personal site from the parent portal site,
you may receive the following error message when you click the link to the user
profile in the search results:
This problem may occur if you specify a portal site that is
not configured to use shared services from the parent portal site as the
personal site provider. Personal sites can be hosted by a child portal site in
the same shared services environment. However, SharePoint Portal Server permits
you to specify a portal site that is not a member of the shared services
environment as the personal site provider in the
Personal Site
Services area of the Manage Shared Services page of SharePoint Central
Administration. As a result, links to user profiles that are returned in the
search results do not work correctly, and you experience the symptoms that are
described earlier in the "Symptoms" section of this article.
To work around this problem, make sure that the portal site
that you specify as the personal site provider is configured to use shared
services from the parental portal site in that same shared services
environment. That is, the portal site cannot be stored on a stand-alone server
or be configured to use shared services from a parent portal site in a
different shared services environment.
Microsoft
has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed
at the beginning of this article.
Shared services are portal site services that are shared
across server farms. The shared services are managed from a single portal site
for one or more portal sites on one or more server farms.
The server
farm that provides shared services is the parent server farm, and the portal
site that provides the services is the parent portal site. Only one portal site
on a server farm can provide shared services. When you configure a parent
portal site on the parent server farm, all other portal sites on the parent
server farm automatically become child portal sites.
When you specify
a personal site provider in a shared services environment, a separate portal
site is used to host personal sites. Users who access personal sites are
automatically redirected to the portal site that you specify as the personal
site provider.
For more information about how to configure shared
services in SharePoint Portal Server, see the "Configuring Shared Services"
topic in the "Configuration" section of the
Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Administration Guide. The
Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Administration Guide (Administrator's Help.chm) is located in the Docs folder in the
root of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 CD.
For more information
about SharePoint Portal Server, visit the following Microsoft Web site: