How do you prevent users from creating personal sites?

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

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How do you prevent users from creating personal sites?

shengren

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.
Michael AS Jones

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
fgarzonhz
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.
ddlam
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.
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How do you prevent users from creating personal sites?

How do you prevent users from creating personal sites?

shengren

Michael AS Jones

fgarzonhz

ddlam