Today we will create FAST Search Query SSA which will provide query results from the content that is crawled by FAST Search Content SSA. Create and setup Query SSA Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration Home Page, under Application Management and click Manage Service Applications ... [More]

Now with all the software's installed and configured, let us now create and setup Content SSA and Query SSA. Content SSA crawls the content and feed it into FAST Search back-end while Query SSA provides the query results from the content that is crawled by Content SSA. Create and setup Content SSA ... [More]

Let us now install and configure FAST Search 2010 for SharePoint 2010. Since I am out of resources we will be deploying a stand-alone FAST Search 2010, if possible I will add another FAST Search 2010 node to the farm and deploy some services on the same. Installing FAST Search 2010 Insert FAST ... [More]

In my previous two posts, we have installed SQL Server 2008 R2, SharePoint 2010 and Office Web App 2010. Let is now run the configuration wizard and finish the SharePoint Configuration part. Configuring SharePoint 2010 Continuing from where we left last.. You can select the “Run the SharePoint... [More]

Once we have done through the installation of SQL Server 2008 R2, we will now need to follow the article KB 968872 to open the required ports on the server to connect to an instance of SQL Server. Copy the text below, paste it in a notepad and name the file OpenSqlServerPort.bat. Run it as an Admin... [More]

I am attempting to install/configure SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search in my virtual environment. We will walk through step-by-step in the process and we will also configure FAST Search as a default Search for SharePoint 2010. This post is a little background on the preparation steps in creating the ... [More]