A few days ago I ran into a problem, because I had to alter the QuickLaunch menu for the mySites. Easy as Pie, I thought.
I wrote a Feature that was able to add or delete nodes based on it's link name: When using titles there could be a problem when using localized links. The code looks a bit like this: (please note that the Add/delete cases are not included in this example)
SPNavigationNodeCollection nodes = SPContext.Current.Web.Navigation.QuickLanuch;
foreach (SPNavigationNode node in nodes)
{
if (node.Title == "Surveys")
{
node.Delete();
}
}
After running the code, I came to the conclusion that the links under the "My Profile" Header weren't in the SPNavigationNodeCollection. After some research, I found out (via reflector) that those links are hard coded in the MySiteLeftNavProvider, see below for a small sample:
string title = StringResourceManager.GetString(LocStringId.MySiteLeftNavMyInfoDetails);
string str2 = StringResourceManager.GetString(LocStringId.MySiteLeftNavMyInfoLinks);
string str3 = StringResourceManager.GetString(LocStringId.MySiteLeftNavMyInfoColleagues);
string str4 = StringResourceManager.GetString(LocStringId.MySiteLeftNavMyInfoMemberships);
string str5 = UrlUtility.EnsureTrailingSlash(ServerContext.Current.UserProfileApplication.GetUserManagementPagesBaseUrl(loadedProfile.MakePersonalSiteUrl())) + "_layouts/";
string url = str5 + "EditProfile.aspx";
string str7 = str5 + "MyQuickLinks.aspx";
string str8 = str5 + "MyContactLinks.aspx";
string str9 = str5 + "MyMemberships.aspx";
When looking further into the code, I found out that all but the editprofile.aspx are added to the quicklaunch based on some PrivatePolicy setting. I completely forgot that there is a Profile Service Policy in the SSP. When navigation to that page (http://ssp-url/ssp/admin/_layouts/ManagePrivacyPolicy.aspx) You see the following screen:
When setting those policies on "Disabled" you will be able to remove those menu items from the "My Profile" header.
So this *is* possible, although someone from Microsoft denied this ;)