Just a quick note while playing with the My Profile page this evening…
I’ve been bringing up the My Sites and Profile pages for some time now with clients, trying to get more folks to start using them in their environments when appropriate because in general these pages are very useful, but underused. When I do show them what is available there are varied reactions to seeing what can be done on these pages, but inevitably someone doesn’t like something or other and wants to remove web parts from the page. I distinctly remember a few folks not liking the Memberships web part showing the distribution groups they were in because of sensitivity within their staffs regarding to who’s being included and who’s not – that lovely politics game. 🙂 Anyhow, what I hadn’t realized at the time was that managing the Membership web part is REALLY EASY. You simply click on the web part header or click the ‘Manage Memberships’ link (who would have guessed…) below the listing and you are able to set the privacy setting for each item as needed. Pretty slick, though a little different from what many SharePoint users are used to with day to day permissions and lists.
See. Nice and easy… Now back to work.