SharePoint My Sites - No link back to main page

When your organization uses SharePoint My Sites – one of the first things your users will probably ask is how come there is no link back from My Site to SharePoint main page. Since My Site sits in it's own site collection, it's parallel to the root site collection and hence there is no link by default. However, there is an easy way to add it globally for everyone. Also, users can add their own individual links to their personal site (My Content site).

As a My Site site collection administrator – here is how you would add a link to everyone's My Site top nav bar:

1. Go to Central Administration on your farm.
2. Under "Application Management" click "Manage Service Applications"
3. Click on User Profile Service Application
4. Under "My Site Settings" click on "Configure Personalization Site"
5. Click "New Link"

6. Enter necessary Info
7. Press OK