As the name indicates, SharePoint 2013 promoted sites provides a way to list important sites to the user community. These promoted sites appear under "Sites" section of user's My site.
How to manage promoted sites in SharePoint 2013?
Farm Administrators can manage these "Promoted Sites" via user profile service application. Here is how to manage promoted sites in SharePoint 2013: Say, we promote a training site.
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For promoted sites to work, we need user profile service application up and running(Obviously, we need SharePoint server at least, as UPA is not available in foundation version!)
How to manage promoted sites in SharePoint 2013?
Farm Administrators can manage these "Promoted Sites" via user profile service application. Here is how to manage promoted sites in SharePoint 2013: Say, we promote a training site.
- Navigate to Central Administration >> Go to your User profile service application via service application link
- Click on "Manage Promoted Sites" link under "My Sites Settings"
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- Click on "New Link"
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- Fill the details of your new promoted site
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