This presentation provides an overview of FAST Search for SharePoint 2010. It discusses the server roles, single and multi-server deployments, SharePoint search service applications, visual and conversational search capabilities, user context, comparisons to SharePoint search, ways to extend search, and lessons learned. The presentation was delivered by Jacob Wilson from Bross Group.

1. FAST Search for sharepoint 2010 Presented by Jacob Wilson SharePoint Practice Lead/Principal Bross Group http://sharepoint.jacobtwilson.com 1

2. Bross group 2

3. Bross Group Background Founded 2004 Based in Lakewood, CO Certified Woman-Owned Business Denver Business Journal Best Places to Work Tier one vendor to over 40 clients in CO 3

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7. About me 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: http://twitter.com/MOSSLead LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/titan80 Blog: http://sharepoint.jacobtwilson.com 7

8. Fast search for sharepoint 2010 8

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

10. About fast search for sharepoint 10

11. About fast search for sharepoint 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

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

13. Single server deployment Admin and Non-Admin Services on single server 13

14. Multi-server deployment Admin Server and 1+ Non-Admin Server(s) 14

15. sharepoint search service applications 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

16. Office web apps services 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

17. Visual, conversation search 17

18. Visual, conversational search 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. Visual, conversational search 19 Sorting on any property Scrolling PowerPoint Previews Visual Best Bets Thumbnails Refinement with counts on any property Similarity Search

20. demo 20

21. User context 21

22. Fast search User context Keyword Best Bets Visual Best Bets Document Promotion Document Demotion Site Promotion Site Demotion 22

23. demo 23

24. Sharepoint search comparison 24

25. Sharepoint search comparison End User perspective 25

26. demo 26

27. Extending search 27

28. Extending search 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

29. Lessons learned 29

30. Lessons learned FAST Query Service Location Port Use 13287 instead of the suggested 13285 for HTTP communication. Use 13286 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

31. Questions??? 31

32. Useful resources FAST Search Server for SharePoint Deployment & Configuration Guide http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a65aef6f-bc99-4b29-81bb-37fce8ad6ea7&displaylang=en FAST Search Server for SharePoint Known Issues http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8101DA55-1AF2-41A1-89EF-15536A8000F2&displaylang=en FAST Search Server for SharePoint Cmdlets Overview http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0A91AE47-8C6F-447E-8084-2EF7208837AE&displaylang=en Deploy Office Web Apps (SharePoint 2010) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee695758(office.14).aspx#bkmk_activatingPS 32