SharePoint People Search Giving No Results
midhun February 9th, 2009
Recently when moving ‘My sites’/'My Profile’ location from one web application to another, i faced the following issue. The customer needed just the profile pages with ‘My Sites’ functionality turned off.
Problem/Issue : When searching for people using people search no results are shown.
Setup : The my sites location is also on the main portal page. The main portal URL is http://clientmainportalurl and the ‘My Sites’/'My Profile’ URL was http://clientmainportalurl/profile/
Cause : In my case I found the content source ‘Local Office SharePoint Server sites’ did not contain the Shared Service Provider as a start address. This caused the profile pages not to be indexed even though the start address of the main portal was included.
Resolution : Add the SSP (Shared Service Provider) application as the start addresses (with protocol handler http). If you try to add the url http://clientmainportalurl/profile it will not be accepted because the http://clientmainportalurl/ is already added as a start address.
- MOSS 2007 , SharePoint Search
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