SharePoint: My Site Remove Lets Get Social Dialog

Introduction

Whenever we first time Visit SharePoint My Site we see a dialog of “Let’s get Social”. Most of the client doesn’t want to have this popup whenever a user visit his my site for the first time. Here I will show you how to get this requirement done in simple steps.



Solution:

1. Open your My Site Host site in SharePoint Designer 2013.
   
   
2. Navigate to Site Options in top right corner as shown in below screenshot.
   
   
   
   
3. Check for below mentioned key and Value Pair and update accordingly.
   
   Key: urn:schemas-microsoft-com:sharepoint: portal:profile:SPS-O15FirstRunExperience.
   
   Value: OFF
   
   
4. Now click on apply and you should be good to go.

Basically what we did here is we have updated the value for one of the Key of My Site in My Site Host Property bag. We can do this using simple PowerShell as well.

$web = get-SPWeb http://<My Site Host URL >
$web.Properties[“urn:schemas-microsoft-com:sharepoint:portal:profile:SPS-O15FirstRunExperience”]=”OFF”
$web.Update()

Happy SharePointing !!!