Greetings! I'm very excited to launch Happenings Whitepapers, the section on my site where I will be posting white papers that I have written on various SharePoint related topics. For starters, I wrote a whitepaper that covers the various scenarios and areas of concern around My Sites when employees leave the company. The following scenarios are addressed in my paper:

1. The employee has created a My Site and their AD account has been disabled.
2. The employee has created a My Site and their AD account has been deleted.
3. The employee has specified an individual as their manager in the organizational hierarchy on their profile, how does this affect their My Site when their AD account is deleted or disabled?
4. The employee has valuable intellectual property stored on their My Site; however the My Site has been inoperable ever since they left firm. How can we retrieve this information?
5. The employee has sub-sites under their My Site and other employees use those sub-sites for team collaboration. What will happen to these sites after the employee has left the firm? How can we move these sites to another location?
6. After many employees have left, do these "dead" My Sites still take up disk space, and if they do, how can we clean them up?

Also, I go through how to restore access to a My Site if an employee left the company but has since returned to the company, how to archive a My Site, and ideas on how you could place a "legal hold" on a My Site if a litigation is pending. Lastly, I conclude with a few relating best practices and recommendations.

I hope you like it, and stay tuned for more papers to be published in the future!

Best wishes,

Phil