Bob Fox's SharePoint Blog

Ok so this isn't going to be news to many but this stumped me today.   I was approached by the Admin I am training to hand over the environment keys to with what seemed a simple enough question.  How do you remove items showing up in your Top Sites Directory.   I thought for a second.  I took a look at some of the obvious areas but came up empty.  So im thinking this is a simple fix... all i need to do is find the list and delete it.   Well here is the crux.. its not that stupid and actually caused me to break out my handy dandy VM and see what the dillio was.

For this post we are working with a huge group of ONE top level site.  Pretend if you will that we have a couple dozen though.

So creating a top level site entry is simple enough... click Add site to link over on the top right corner of the Top Sites Page (yes i know its not showing here but it really does exist at the end of the blue line above :)  Now you are thinking to yourself ... Self... you idjut   (wait that's my normal inner voice talking to me)  I don't want this link here.  How the heck do i remove it..... simple (but somewhat backwards)   Click on View all Site Content as shown below.

Go down to Sites

Find the site you want you want to remove the link for and click edit.

Uncheck the box for Top Site

So what seemed to be pretty straight forward question turned out to be somewhat of a backwards step to correct. 

Cheers