Newly published content for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

 

Applies to: FAST Search Server 2010

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April 23, 2012 | April 16, 2012 | August 22, 2011 | June 27, 2011 | June 13, 2011 | June 06, 2011 | May 02, 2011 | March 28, 2011 | March 14, 2011 | February 14, 2011 | February 07, 2011 | December 13, 2010 | December 06, 2010 | November 29, 2010 | November 1, 2010 | October 25, 2010 | September 13, 2010

April 23, 2012

Administration pages: Cannot access the pages (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article explains how to troubleshoot problems with accessing the administration pages for Central Admin, Site Settings and Site Collections pages for keywords and managed properties.

April 16, 2012

New articles

How Microsoft IT deployed FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (white paper)   This white paper describes how MSIT planned and deployed enterprise search to improve index capacity, crawl speed, query response, relevance, and availability.

August 22, 2011

New articles

About backup and restore scripts (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes the available options for the FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint backup and restore scripts.

June 27, 2011

New articles

Install a software update (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes how to install a software update for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

June 13, 2011

New articles

Test results: Extra-large scenario (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes the set up and test results for an extra large FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint test scenario with up to 500 million items. The article describes disk usage, crawling, indexing and query performance under load.

June 06, 2011

New articles

Replace a failed backup indexer server (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes how to manage a backup indexer server failure if you are using a backup indexer row.

May 02, 2011

New articles

Manage the Search Center Home page (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article gives an introduction on how to change properties for the Search Box Web Part and how to use search scopes to narrow a search to particular locations or content on the Search Center Home page.

Manage the Search Results page (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article gives an introduction on how to change how search results are displayed, how to add sort options to search results, how to display information form external sources and how to make it easy to find people on the Search Results Page.

Configure additional features for the Search Core Results Web Part (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article explains how to configure additional features for the Search Core Results Web Part.

Manage hit highlighted summary for a managed property by using Windows PowerShell (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article explains how to manage hit highlighted summary for a managed property.

Set a rank profile as sort option on the Search Results page via the graphical user interface (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article explains how to set a rank profile as sort option on the Search Results page.

Set a managed property as sort option on the Search Results page (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article explains how to set a managed property as sort option on the Search Results page.

Manage refiners and refiner settings (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article explains how to manage refiners and refiner settings.

March 28, 2011

New articles

Plan the relevance of search results (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes the features involved when improving the relevance of search results.

How ranking and sorting of search results are calculated (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes how ranking and sorting of search results are calculated.

The index schema and its features (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes the index schema and its features.

Which relevance factors can you tune and what is the impact (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article gives an overview of the different factors you can tune to influence search relevance.

Static rank (quality rank) (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes the different factors you can tune to influence the static rank (quality rank) component of search relevance.

Dynamic rank (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes the different factors you can tune to influence the dynamic rank component of search relevance.

Keyword rank (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes the different factors you can tune to influence the keyword rank component of search relevance.

Linguistic features (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes the different linguistic features you can tune to influence search relevance.

March 14, 2011

New articles

Installation: Configuration wizard fails (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes how to troubleshoot problems with the post-configuration wizard for FAST Search for Sharepoint 2010.

Reset the content index (FAST Search Web crawler)   This article describes how to remove content that was placed in the index by the FAST Search Web crawler.

Reset the content index (FAST Search database connector)   This article describes how to remove content that was placed in the index by the FAST Search database connector.

Reset the content index (FAST Search Lotus Notes connector)   This article describes how to remove content that was placed in the index by the FAST Search Lotus Notes content connector.

Test results: Extra-small scenario (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes the set up and test results for the extra-small FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint test scenario with up to 8 million items.

Test results: Medium scenario (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes the set up and test results for the medium FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint test scenario with up to 40 million items.

Test results: Large scenario (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes the set up and test results for the large FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint test scenario with up to 100 million items.

Recommendations: Content volume capacity (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes content volume capacity recommendations for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

Recommendations: Redundancy and availability (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes redundancy and availability recommendations for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

Recommendations: Content freshness (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes content freshness recommendations for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

Recommendations: Query throughput (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes query throughput recommendations for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

Recommendations: Storage (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes storage recommendations for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

Recommendations: Virtualization (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes virtualization recommendations for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

February 14, 2011

New articles

Indexer server: Disk usage increases unexpectedly (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes how to troubleshoot an issue with unexpected increased disk usage on a FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint indexer server.

Updated articles

Manage certificates (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   The article has been updated with information on how to add a password for the general purpose FAST Search certificate.

Create and view search scopes (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   The article has been updated with information on how to display scopes on the Search Center site.

February 07, 2011

New articles

Performance and capacity planning (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article provides guidance on how to plan performance and capacity of a FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint deployment.

Performance and capacity testing (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article provides guidance on how to test performance and capacity of a FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint deployment.

Performance and capacity monitoring (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article provides guidance on how to monitor performance and capacity of a FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint deployment.

Performance and capacity tuning (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article provides guidance on how to tune performance and capacity of a FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint deployment.

December 13, 2010

New articles

Test results: Extra-small scenario (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes considerations for configuring FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint to index up to 40 million items per column.

Add an index column (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes how to increase indexing capacity by adding an index column.

Extend content capacity for a new deployment (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes how to support up to 40 million items per index column for a new FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint deployment.

Extend content capacity for an existing deployment (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes how to support up to 40 million items per index column for an existing FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint deployment.

Handle software updates when you have extended the content capacity (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes additional steps during a software update if you have configured for up to 40 million items per index column for a FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint deployment.

Increase query capacity (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes how to handle more queries per second and provide query fault-tolerance.

Add a backup indexer row (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes how to add a backup indexer row for indexer fault-tolerance.

Verify the status of the backup indexer (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes how you can verify that the backup and primary indexer are in sync.

Synchronize the primary and the backup indexer servers (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes how to handle a situation when the primary and backup indexer gets out of sync with respect to number of items indexed.

Replace a failed primary indexer server (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes how to manage primary or backup indexer failure when using a backup indexer row.

December 06, 2010

New articles

Configure people search (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes how to enable and configure people search for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

Crawl the user profile store (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes how to add a content source for people and explains how to crawl the user profile store using the FAST Search Query Search Service Application.

Manage people search (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes how to enable and configure people search and how to crawl people profiles.

Updated article

Configure and use the Lotus Notes connector (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   Updated with information about the client and server versions that will work with the Lotus Notes connector.

November 29, 2010

indexerinfo XML status report syntax (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes the syntax of the XML-formatted status report for the indexerinfo status command.

searchinfo XML status report syntax (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article describes the syntax of the XML-formatted status report for the searchinfo status command.

IFilter and file type reference (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article lists the file types that are supported for crawling out-of-the-box by FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint. The article also lists the file types that are not crawled by default.

Default indexing connector protocols (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   This article lists the indexing connector protocols that are installed by default in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and are used when you crawl content with the FAST Search Content Search Service Application or people profiles with the FAST Search Query Search Service Application.

November 1, 2010

New Resource Center

Advanced training for enterprise search   Provides dozens of videos, presentations, quizzes, and links to other resources for learning about Microsoft Enterprise Search products.

October 25, 2010

New downloadable book

Deployment guide for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint   Downloadable and printable content (available in .doc, .pdf, or .xps file formats) that contains information about how to deploy FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

New Resource Center

Updates for Enterprise Search Products   Find resources for installing software updates on Microsoft Search Server 2010, Microsoft Search Server 2010 Express, and Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

October 04, 2010

Manage federated locations (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   Describes how to configure federated locations in the FAST Search Query Search Service Application to display query results from locations outside your internal network.

October 04, 2010

Content sources that require additional configuration (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)   Updated indexing connector protocols list.

September 13, 2010

East Asian language specific tokenization tasks by using Windows PowerShell (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint) Describes how you can tune relevancy for East Asian languages by influencing the default tokenization using linguistic tokenization, substring tokenization or a combination of substring tokenization and linguistic tokenization.