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Q. I’m using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and recently discovered there’s no easy way to navigate from My Site back to my main SharePoint intranet portal.  The navigation breadcrumb exists for other sites, but not for My Site. Can I enable this functionality for My Site?

A. This is a good question and one that I receive quite often.  If you have a single intranet portal, or one that you call your home portal, you can configure an individual My Site to include it in the breadcrumb navigation.  To do so, perform the following steps:
     1. While on your My Site, choose Site Settings, Modify All Site Settings from the Site Actions menu.
     2. From the Site Settings page, select the Portal site connection option.
     3. You’ll now see a screen that lets you specify a portal site address.
     4. Enter the URL and name of the portal site you want your My Site to be connected to, then click OK.

That’s all there is to it.  Notice, in the upper left corner of your My Site, the breadcrumb navigation bar has been updated to include a link to your portal.

Source: MSD2D

If you want to access your SharePoint Central Administration site remotely, it is possible to do this.

At the time of setting up your SharePoint installation, Central Administration site will be setup on a particular port. It won’t be on default IIS port 80.

Depending on your installation method (unattended or interactive), Central Administration port will be anything but 80.

Let’s assume the port number is 8000. In that case you will be able to access your SharePoint Central Administration site using http://%servername%:8000

Point to note: If you are accessing this site through a firewall, you will need to open up this port (8000) on your router.