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As I start writing this post, I know this is going to be one of those posts that covers so much that it is going to hard to cover it all.  The point of this post is to give you a high level idea of everything new and changed in Search with SharePoint...
Recently, I became aware of this troublesome issue in regards to document previews with FAST Search for SharePoint.  It was on a new installation of SharePoint.  I had everything indexing great and my search results looked good.  However...
During configuration of FAST Search for SharePoint, you will need to use PowerShell to finalize your configuration.  One common error you might receive is the one below.  This error occurs when you execute any PowerShell command for FS4SP. Failed...
Ever wanted to see what exactly is in your SharePoint search index with a simple query?  Sure, you can take a look at the crawl log, but you can’t see that in SharePoint Online.  With SharePoint 2010, you can use queries using the ContentSource...
At my Search talk at SPC11, I demoed how to build a Silverlight application that could query search in SharePoint Online .  I also built a separate application that could query people search, but I haven’t posted on it yet until today.  To query...
Yesterday, I talked about how we can use FQL with the Search Web Service .  As promised, I am continuing the series about the search web service to talk about how we can take advantage of refiners.  As you may know, FAST Search for SharePoint...
I’ve written many posts on how to query search ( Keyword in 2010 , Keyword in 2007 , QueryManager , Web Service , FQL using Keyword ) and I wanted to keep up the tradition and talk about how easy it is to get started using FQL with the Search Web Service...
I have to admit, the Document Id Service is really only exciting to a small handful of us.  I show it to customers and people in my ECM talks and the response I get is, “meh”.  However, the hardcore ECM people I know really like it and they...
One day when I wasn’t thinking, I encountered the following error when trying to execute a FAST Search for SharePoint PowerShell command such as Get-FASTSearchContentCollection. Get-FASTSearchContentCollection : Failed to communicate with the WCF service...
When deploying a multiple server FAST Search for SharePoint farm, sometimes you can run into a Configuration Failed error.  The SDK has some guidance on this but I wanted to walk you through the troubleshooting steps I used to determine what the...
In the FAST Search for SharePoint configuration process, getting your certificates configured correctly is probably the most important part of the process.  Without the certificates configured correctly, FAST simply will not work.  When running...
To date, I’ve written a few posts on issues that may occur when you are looking to create a search center.  Sometimes the site template isn’t present or you receive an error .  I recently encountered another issue with the FAST Search Center...
It’s generally pretty easy to create a Search Center or FAST Search Center site.  However, on a new installation, there are a few features you need to activate (especially if you are using blank site) that are easy to forget.  I’ve talked about...
This is something that I have been trying to figure out for quite some time.  I’ve seen numerous people ask in the forums and no one seemed to have a conclusive answer (at least the last time I checked).  The issue is simple.  You want...
If you have ever installed FAST Search, you know memory is a commodity.  When you are looking at an environment with Active Directory, SQL Server, SharePoint Server, and FAST installed on top of it, your virtual server is consuming a lot of memory...
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