SharePoint MOSS 2007 has introduced a great feature set in My Site and My Links. Unfortunately there seem to be some kinks in keeping the My Links in sync so they actually show you all the sites you are a member of.

I recently did a WSS2.0 to MOSS2007 database migration. The new server had MOSS installed well before the migration and it was used as a dev instance before moving the production databases over to it.

Here is the problem: after moving the prod DBs over and renaming the new server with it's PROD name all the My Links still pointed to sites using the dev url. Even new sites I added myself to would not show up under My Links.

Follow up:

I couldn't really find anything online about this, so hopefully now that it is posted it will help someone.

To resolve run these 2 commands:


stsadm.exe -o sync -deleteolddatabases 0
deletes the databases that contains the data on user memberships (I was of course worried this would wipe out other data, eg: my crawls, but that is not the case)


stsadm.exe -o sync -synctiming m:2
will set your sync timing to every 2 minutes. This ensures you will start updating within the next 2 minutes.

You can then view the related timer job for this by going to Central Administration > Operations > Timer job status. The job will be "Quick Profile Synchronization", which is responsible for scanning for changes that will affect the My Links.

Doing the 2 stsadm commands got everything working and all the My Links were added correctly.

I am having an issue going forward with new sites not showing up consistently when a user is added. Some times the site shows up the next day, sometimes not at all. (Yes, I know in order for a site to by in MY LINKS you have to be in that site's "XYZ Site Members" group). Anyone else see this sort of flakiness with the My Links features?