Alternate Access Mappings

My site on our intranet when orginally set up was

http://servername:41167/sites/portal/default.apsx

Alternate acccess mappings let you access Sharepoint from a more friendly address like http://intranet:41167/

Go to central sharepoint administration | operations | Alternate Access Mappings

There is already an url listed , the internal one we have been using

http://servername:41167 Zone:Default

Add another internal URL by clicking on Add Internal URLS

http://intranet:41167 and pick the zone as intranet

****WARNING: BEFORE I DID NOT PUT THE PORT NUMBER AND THIS RESULTED IN SOME OF MY SHAREPOINT SITE NOT RESOLVING E.G. SEARCH PAGES. ALSO I ADDED intranet as a header in IIS for my sharepoint site WHICH YOU DO NOT NEED TO DO..IN FACT IT MAY EVEN CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR YOU **