Maybe not, but it might make your life as a Microsoft SharePoint admin a little easier.

To begin, SharePoint would run a search just fine when you searched ‘All Sites’.  If you tried to do a search on ‘This site’ or ‘This list’, it would not return any results.  I tried numerous things to get it to work right, but it came down to one easy solution, setting the URL in the Alternate Access Mappings.

How I fixed it….

Go into SharePoint Central Administration.  Then go to Operations and Alternate Access Mappings under the Global Configuration section.  I had my URL for the Internet zone set to https://sharepoint.companyname.com and the URL for the default zone set to http://sharepoint.  I could access both URLs from the office but not the outside world.  So, I changed the default zone URL to https://sharepoint.companyname.com (which I had to delete the Internet zone listing).  As soon, and I mean as soon as I did this, everything worked.  I did not have to restart IIS or clear the cache.  It just worked right away.

I hoped this helped as I was not able to find this on the web.

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