Presented by Jacob Wilson SharePoint Practice Lead/Principal Bross Group 1

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 MCTS Certified in MOSS 2007 Configuration  MCTS Certified in PerformancePoint Server 2007 Application Development  SharePoint Practice Lead and Principal Consultant at Bross Group  Worked with SharePoint 2003 and 2007 over the past several years  Architecture, Installation, Upgrade, Configuration, Custom Development, and Administration  Twitter:  LinkedIn:  Blog: 7

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 About FAST Search for SharePoint  Visual, Conversational Search  User Context  SharePoint Search Comparisons  Extending Search  Lesson Learned 9

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 April 2008  Microsoft acquires Norwegian Enterprise Search Solution Fast Search & Transfer  Overall Vision  To provide a market leading enterprise search platform that integrates with your existing infrastructure  SharePoint Vision  Best-in-class search, with the simplicity and low TCO of SharePoint  Build upon a social computing platform for a more robust search experience 11

 Admin Server  Administration Services  Non-Admin Server  Query Matching (Search) Service  Indexing Service  Document/Item Processing Service 12

 Admin and Non-Admin Services on single server 13

 Admin Server and 1+ Non-Admin Server(s) 14

 FAST Search Connector (SSA)  Crawls the content and feeds it into the FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint back-end  FAST Search Query (SSA)  The Query SSA provides query results from the content that is crawled by the Content SSA 15

 PowerPoint Service Application  Viewing/Editing PPT documents in the browser  Generating PPT thumbnails in FAST Search Results  Word Viewing Service  Viewing/Editing Word documents in the browser  Generating Word thumbnails in FAST Search Results 16

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 Refiners with Detailed Counts  Counts are specific to FAST Search  Thumbnails and Scrolling PPT Previews  Specific to FAST Search  Provided by Office Web Apps 2010  Similarity Search  Specific to FAST Search  Sorting on any Property  Visual Best Bets  Specific to FAST Search 18

19 Thumbnails Sorting on any property Similarity Search Visual Best Bets Scrolling PowerPoint Previews Scrolling PowerPoint Previews Refinement with counts on any property Refinement with counts on any property

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 Keyword  Best Bets  Visual Best Bets  Document Promotion  Document Demotion  Site Promotion  Site Demotion 22

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25 Great OOB search experience Most visual and dynamic user experience Excellent OOB relevance Federated results PC, phone, or browser access Same capabilities, plus: Broader, better language support Deeper query syntax Metadata based refiners Related searches View in Browser Same capabilities, plus: Deep refiners with counts Similarity search Sorting on any property Phonetic & nickname matching Relevance and refiners Integrated presence Same capabilities Click-through drives relevance Colleague & Expertise suggestions Query suggestions Same capabilities Thumbnails & Scrolling Previews Visual Best Bets User context from user profile Multiple relevance profiles End User perspective

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 Extend OOB Web Parts – or Create New Ones  Location Awareness  Geo-Search using SortFormula() with FQL (Fast Query Language)  Query Language Expressiveness  Soft boost (relevance control) using Xrank operator in FQL  EX: Boost all documents that contain a selected persons name or phrase 28

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 FAST Query Service Location Port  Use instead of the suggested for HTTP communication. Use for HTTPS.  FAST Search User Context Permissions  Need to have User Profile Service Application Permissions  FAST Search Server Local Admin Group  FAST Service Accounts need to be manually added to the FAST Server local group FASTSearchAdministrators  Service Account Access to FAST Search SQL DB’s  Need to manually grant service accounts access to SQL DB’s  Office Web Applications Install and Post Configuration  Install on the SharePoint server before installing SharePoint 2010  Run PowerShell scripts for post-configuration  Make sure to activate the publishing infrastructure features on the site where the FAST Search Center will live. You won’t be able to successfully add a FAST Search Center site to the Site Collection until this is done. 30

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 FAST Search Server for SharePoint Deployment & Configuration Guide  37fce8ad6ea7&displaylang=en 37fce8ad6ea7&displaylang=en  FAST Search Server for SharePoint Known Issues  A8000F2&displaylang=en A8000F2&displaylang=en  FAST Search Server for SharePoint Cmdlets Overview  2EF AE&displaylang=en 2EF AE&displaylang=en  Deploy Office Web Apps (SharePoint 2010) 