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Here I will show you how to create new mysites host. Once you apply this mysite site host template, all new mysite will use this as a tempate to create a mysite

1. Create a new Mysite host.
   a. Open Central admin > Application management > Create new site collection
   
   b. Provider Name, URL path, Select template as “My site host” and a site collection admin > Click OK
   
   c. Now you can make the required modification(e.g. custom master page, custom list, library, webpart, etc) in this mysite template.

2. Update this Mysite Host site in User profile service application
   a. Open Central admin > Application management > Manage service application > User profile service application
   
   b. Under My site settings select “Setup My sites” > In my site host select the new mysite host we just created e.g. http://portal/sites/host > Click ok
   C. Now all new my Site collections will use this as Host template
   

Note. This mysite host does not work on existing site. It only works on new mysites.

Scenario :  When using SharePoint 2013 Multi Tenant environment you may come across multiple issue. Below are very important and commons issue I have troubleshoot till date.

Issue 1 : When users try to access SKYdrive and Newsfeed. Get below error message:
Error : Exception occurred loading user profile (/mysite/default.aspx): System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.  Parameter name: userProfileApplicationProxy

Solution:
Here the site subscription is not added to the tenant site. To resolve the issue we need to follow below steps:

$sub = get-spsitesubscription “yourGUID”;
$site = get-spsite “https://youronedrivesite.yourdomain.com/personal/user”
set-spsite -identity $site -SiteSubscription $sub

Issue 2 : When users try to add app to their SharePoint site. they get below error:
Error : “apps are turned off if you know who runs the server tell them to enable apps”

Solution:
Every Tenant Admin will require a new App Catalog. It is different from app catalog created in central admin(Make sure Self site creation is enabled in order for App Catalog to get created)

$Sub = Get-SPSiteSubscription http://hhmodeSite (This CMDlet will help in fetching the subscription ID of the HH mode site collection)
Set-SPAppSiteSubscriptionName -Name “Name for Subscription” -SiteSubscription $Sub

We need to run the above command in order to set the unique name for domain under which these apps will run.More details can be found under http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219503.aspx

Issue: How to check which Active Directory OU is assigned to which Site Collection

Solution :
Normally you can see the details of each site collection using below:
Get-SPSiteSubscription –Identity http://hosted-site-URL

If you want to see details of all tenant at once, try below:
– In “Your_Tenant_Profiles_Service_ProfileDB” run below query

SELECT TOP 1000 [CanonicalMySitePortalUrl],[SynchronizationOU]
FROM [Your_Tenant_Profiles_Service_ProfileDB].[dbo].[Tenants]

Reference:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/harmeetw/archive/2013/01/03/sharepoint-2013-you-receive-quot-sorry-apps-are-turned-off-if-you-know-who-runs-the-server-tell-them-to-enable-apps-quot-when-trying-to-add-apps-on-host-header-site-collection.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/a04a9163-1f9d-4519-891e-4d6ca8d9528a/setup-mysites-in-a-multitenant-sp2013-farm?forum=sharepointadmin#98a30156-a4ca-46f6-bf1a-47d08f54013d