University of Tasmania, Australia

To access your "MySite" page for the first time

• Browse to: https://mysite.utas.edu.au (Note that the address starts with https, not the usual http)
• There will be a delay while your new site is constructed.

Your MySite allows storage of up to 5000 MB of documents.

Although not essential, it is recommended that you add the address of the UTas MySite system to "Trusted Sites" in your Internet Browser. This reduces the number of prompts for confirmation of your actions when using the document storage system.

For Windows users:

1. Click the Start Menu
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click on "Network and Internet"
4. Double-click on the Internet Options control panel
5. Click on the Security tab
6. Click Trusted Sites (the green tick)
7. Click the Sites button
8. Under "Add this website to the zone", enter https://mysite.utas.edu.au
9. Click the "Add" button, then close
10. Finally, click the "Ok" button to exit the control panel

1. Click "Personal Documents" from the launch bar on the left
2. Click "All Documents" in the top right corner of the Personal Documents window
3. Click "Explorer View"
   (Note that this feature requires a modern Internet browser and prefers Internet Explorer)

Follow the above instructions for accessing the files through a Windows Explorer window. You can then drag copy files to the Explorer Window as you would for a USB drive.

1. Click "Site Actions" in the top right hand corner of your MySite page
2. Click on the "Site Settings" menu item
3. Under the heading "Site Collection Administration", click "Usage Summary"

1. Click "Site Actions" in the top right hand corner of your MySite page
2. Click on the "Site Settings" menu item
3. Under the heading "Site Collection Administration", click "Storage Space Allocation"
4. Change "Show Only" from "Document Libraries" to "Documents" and click "Go!" to see individual document sizes.

1. Open the command prompt (Start Menu: Run) and type in:
   (replace the "asmith" with your UTas username)
   
   

   net use * https://mysite.utas.edu.au/personal/asmith

   
   
   (Note: This feature only works under Windows Vista and Windows 7; Windows XP cannot map a drive letter to a site starting with https://)

Most common Internet browsers are supported, but ideally the browser should support Microsoft's ActiveX technology.

Level 1 Supported Browsers (Preferred)

Level 2 Supported Browsers

For detailed information on browser support, visit the Microsoft website.

Problems with File Names and Extensions

"The file name you specified is not valid or too long."

The name of each file in the MySite system must be less than 128 characters. In addition, the entire path as it appears in the browser URL / address field (including sites, folders, and file name) cannot exceed 260 characters.

If the file name is less than 128 characters, the error may be due to the name containing characters that are not allowed by MySite. These are:

~ # % & * { } \ : < > ? / + | " .

"Error 0x800700DE: The file type being saved or retrieved has been blocked."

For security reasons, the online document storage system blocks certain file types, in particular those used by scripts and applications. Examples include files ending in .exe, .vbs, .bat.

The blocked file types are:

ade, adp, app, asa, ashx, asmx, asp, bas, bat, cdx, cer, chm, class, cmd, cnt, com, config, cpl, crt, csh, der, dll, exe, fxp, gadget, hlp, hpj, hta, htr, htw, ida, idc, idq, ins, isp, its, jse, ksh, lnk, mad, maf, mag, mam, maq, mar, mas, mat, mau, mav, maw, mda, mdb, mde, mdt, mdw, mdz,msc, msh, msh1, msh1xml, msh2, msh2xml, mshxml, msi, msp, mst, ops, pcd, pif, prf, prg, printer, pst, reg, rem, scf, scr, sct, shb, shs, shtm, shtml, soap, stm, url, vb, vbe, vbs, ws, wsc, wsf, wsh