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 In Manage Service Applications page, click New –> Search Service Applications In Create New Search Service Application page, fill in the details (here’s wh... [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 Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration Home Page, under Application Management and click Manage Service Applications In Manage Service Applications page, click New –>... [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 Server 2010 installation media, you will get a splash screen as shown below Click on Install software prerequisites –> click Next –> accept License Agreement a... [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 Products Configuration Wizard now” from Run Configuration Wizard as per the screenshot shown in previous post. OR Click Start –> Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products –> right... [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 Administrator in the command prompt. @echo ========= SQL Server Ports =================== @echo Enabling SQLServer default instance port 1433 netsh firewall set portopening TCP 1433 "SQLServer... [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 environment. Server Identification: Role Name DC WIN-DC SQL Server 2008 R2 WIN-DC ... [More]

This is small follow-up post for SharePoint 2010 - Setup your development environment for Windows 7. The reason was Pedro's reply to the post who pointed that if you are indeed using your Windows 7 desktop for SharePoint 2010 development, the performance will not be up to the mark for general day to day purposes. I totally agree to this point, and I just hate when I see a service like IIS or SQL Server consuming my RAM for no reason [while I am not doing any SharePoint development]. Here is wh... [More]

I will tell you about my hardware setup and the reason why I am posting this. I am sure I am not alone who has faced this!!! I have a laptop with 4GB RAM and I wanted to use this as my SharePoint development environment. The first question was the choice of OS – Windows 7 or Windows 2k8 R2 Server. I decided to go with Windows 7 for obvious reasons and very soon realized that if I install all the beta products (SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Office 2010, Visual Studio 2010 beta being the minimum) tha... [More]

Objective 1 –> Install all the pre-requisites on the system that was created in part 2. Objective 2 –> Install SharePoint 2010 beta 2 binaries. Notes: 1. This is a public beta and there is no support available. It is to be used only for evaluation purposes 2. Software that needs to be downloaded…     a. OfficeServer.exe     b. Products Keys = BV7VC-RMR6B-26P6Y-BTQDG-DX2KQ OR PKXTJ-DCM9D-6MM3V-G86P8-MJ8CY     c. WCF Hotfix... [More]

Objective –> Run DCPromo on the system that was created in part 1. This is not a recommended way of setting up SharePoint, but due to the hardware limitations on my laptop I have no other choice. Basically, this will be a 1 server setup of SharePoint 2010 beta 2. In the part 1, a machine was setup with Win 2k8 R2 server x64, and Hyper-V enabled. In this post, the objective is to promote the machine to a domain controller. Click Start –> Run –> Type DCPROMO –> Click Ok  ... [More]