FAST Search Server for SharePoint is an optional search solution for SharePoint 2010.
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Site Collection Web Analytics reports numbers are incorrect
We are experiencing problems with the reports from the site collection web analytics. We use SharePoint Server with FAST search on a public facing web site. Our SharePoint solution is only used for ...
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FAST Search Security Trimming of non Windows External Content Types
We have integrated a back-end web application into SharePoint 2010 using the BCS and the OOTB Web Services connector.
The data in the backend system is protected by ACLs and we need these ACLs to be ...
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What is the best practice to implement search to index XML files?
In our SharePoint solution we need a service which can search and index XML files.
At this moment we are using FAST, but are there other tools / applications / solutions which are free and easy to ...
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How SharePoint 2013 built-en ranking models works?
I want to understand how SharePoint 2013 built-en ranking models works. I tried to search it over web but I don't see any documentation that describe these models.
Here is the list of ranking models ...
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Regex Query Against FAST Search 2010
I'm looking for a way to do searches with FAST Search Server 2010 based on Regular Expressions.
For instance, I'd like to be able to use:
^\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{4}$
And have it return any content ...
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Mssearch.exe crashes when performing full crawl on FAST Search Server
We are having some issues getting a full crawl to complete in our FAST Search evironment. We are attempting to crawl ~24 million records from SQL Server 2008 R2. The crawl process (mssearch.exe) ...
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Microsoft Enterprise Search (FAST) without SharePoint?
Microsoft's FAST enterprise search product used to be a stand-alone product before being purchased by Microsoft. It is now re-branded as Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.
My question ...
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Sharepoint Incremental Crawl and BCS
I have a BCS connector (partial BDC Model posted below) and I'm noticing some issues with Sharepoint crawls. My full crawl seems to work perfectly, but incremental is pulling back the same number of ...
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Will search index Ajax content?
I've got page containing a Data View Web Part. The page itself has been modified via SPD so that when loaded, jQuery loads up additional information (prices, etc.) for each row in the DVWP. Of course, ...
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Using SSL with the FAST 2010 Content API
Using the FAST Content API with Sharepoint 2010 requires a SSL client certificate . At least that's what I understand from this error message"
Http error: HTTP/1.1 403 Could not verify client ...
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How to show results of one-to-many relationship in search results?
We have a one-to-many relationship between a document library (with 150,000 documents) and a custom list storing additional metadata. We're looking to show the additional metadata from all of the ...
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Anyone successfully inherited from CoreResultsWebpart with FAST Search as the provider?
I created a dummy webpart which inherits the CoreResultsWebpart. If I add the built-in SharePoint Search SSA to the default application proxy group, this webpart renders results just like the normal ...
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How to create a large (multi-line) text column that is indexed by FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010
I am trying to create a multi-line text column in a document library, to hold raw textual content of OCR'd fax documents so that it can be crawled, indexed, and searched.
I have been unable to ...
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Core Results WebPart - Fetched Properties Error and FAST
I'm having a weird problem I'm trying to understand and resolve.
I'm provisionning through a feature a custom search results page (and a page layout, master page, css file and xslt stylesheet). When ...
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Multiple Search Refiners in Same Category
Does anyone know if there is an easy way to convert the standard SharePoint refiner pane to allow multiple refinement choices within a single category? For example, putting a check box next to the ...
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People Results and Thumbnail previews not working in Fast Search Server for SharePoint 2010
My site uses SSL.
I am getting the following error in the Application log:
An operation failed because the following certificate has validation errors:
Subject Name: CN=www.mycompany.net, ...
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Managed MetaData Columns in FASTSearch
I have a FAST Search site collection and, in results.aspx, I'm trying to configure the 'Refinement Panel' web part so it displays my custom taxonomy which I've created in Managed MetaData service. If ...
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Difference between Managed Properties in FAST search and Metadata Properties in SharePoint search?
I have a SharePoint 2010 with FAST search installed.
In the FAST Query SSA, I can find 2 places contain "Metadata properties":
/searchadministration.aspx, under Queries and Results > Metadata
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Display web page preview with FAST Search for SharePoint
We have a enterprise farm installation of SP2010 and have configured FAST search for SharePoint. We have also enable office web apps for thumbnail and document preview. All setup is running fine.
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KeywordQuery and Refiners: How to specify a RangeMapping Refiner?
I need to use the KeywordQuery class to connect to a FAST Search Server. I still want to be able to display refiners (much like the default Refiner Web Part).
The default refiner web part supports a ...
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How do I set the OSearch14 Service Account via PowerShell
I'm in the process of Scripting a deployment of SharePoint 2010 and FAST.
Normally to set the Service Account of a SharePoint service one would use the ProcessIdentity property, like so:
$procId = ...
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sharepoint fast-search(FQL) querytext for sharepoint people search
I am new in sharepoint 2010 and I want to make a FQL query For People search
One other thing in sharepoint search MSSQLFt works fine But in fast-search Some fields are not search.Like Department and ...
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FAST 2010 Search and SharePoint 2010 Search - Advanced Search, Date Properties
I have a SharePoint Site Collection with regional settings changed to dd/mm/yyyy overall, all date picker controls change and I get the dd/mm/yyyy format.
I have an Enterprise Search Center in which ...
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Is Fast Search able to extract file metadata?
I was not able to find if Fast Search is able to extract meta data from files. I'm not talking about meta data in the SharePoint document library, but meta data specific to file formats.
Especially :
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SPListitem.SystemUpdate() and incremental crawl in FAST
Does FAST search incremental crawls ignore items that are updated via SPListItem.SystemUpdate()?
I am observing conflicting behaviours in multiple environments, so I am not sure what the exact ...
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Crawling dynamic publishing pages and assets
i got the following search requirements for a public internet site based on SharePoint 2010
publishing pages must be indexed
Documents must be indexed
Only documents being linked on at least one ...
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How does FAST ESP work in SharePoint 2010?
When we install FAST ESP, does it replace SharePoint 2010's search engine feature? If not then how exactly does it work with SP 2010 search engine?
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Configuring FAST 2010 Beta for SharePoint
Has anyone had luck configuring FAST 2010 beta with SharePoint 2010.
I've followed all the instructions and it seems to crawl ok etc but in my fast search center when i do a search I get the following ...
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Search query with contains
Is it possible with either KQL or FQL to query for title:*or* and get back items where the tile is e.g "A.B.PZ.3_MS_Form" ? Another query would be title:*PZ*.
Background: I have a custom advanced ...
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HTML content from crawled properties in SP Site
I've been working on a step for F4SP 2010, where I had to get the HTML content from the Site crawled of Sharepoint, and get a div into it.
My question is not how to do that.
I have the main problem ...
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How to Configure FAST Search in Sharepoint 2010
Friends,
Can anyone please refer me to some links or step-by-step guide on HOW TO CONFIGURE FAST SEARCH for Sharepoint 2010.
After configuring it what settings need to be made in Central Admin to ...
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Fast Search managed properties text as integer
Im trying to search on the managed property numcomments. This property is the number of comments stored for a blog post. The proprty is a text field which means if im also sorting by it, 11 comes ...
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SharePoint 2013 Content Search and Refinement Panel
I am using SharePoint 2013 Enterprise search. My search page has a Search Textbox, Refinement Panel and the search results web part.
When I perform a content search my matching search results are ...
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ArgumentOutOfRangeException while calling FAST-Search service
I am getting an exception:
Exception information:
Exception type: FaultException
Exception message: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException
while calling my FS4SP web service. It runs fine for small ...
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Listing values for managed properties
I want to build an advanced search inside a web application. To do that, I connect to a Sharepoint 2010 instance running FAST and use the query web service.
I've tried to retrieve the search metadata ...
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Getting ModifiedBy in a KeywordQuery
I want to da a keywordquery because it shoul work with Sharepoint Enterprise and FAST Search.
And all i want is to get the 10 last modified documents from a search application.
My problem is, that i ...
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GridView showing FAST results and inline editing items
I'm in the following scenario: I have a single custom list coupled with a document library (for the 'attachments'). Search on this list and the attachments is done by FAST Search. All search results ...
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How do I customize the FAST People Search results?
I would like to add the user's pager number (which we display the extension) to display in the FAST people search results.
Any help would be appreciated!
Update
I modified the FetchProperties on ...
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Can you use spmetal entities for FAST search?
Is there a good site for FAST search information, complete with sample code?
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Sharepoint 2010: Is FAST Search a separate install from Server and Foundation?
IS Sharepoint Search installed by default?
If so, how do I know if it is installed?
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Keyword search passing in Urls to return results in Fast Search 2010
I am performing a keyword search, passing in 3 urls which are different places within the site. The idea is to search where (urls = url1 or urls = url2 or urls = url3).
I've got a managed property in ...
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Fast Search Pipeline Extensibility for only one Content Source
I have a executable that I added to the Pipeline Extensibility to split a multi value property. This works but it looks like the process gets invoked for all of content sources.
Is there a way to ...
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Map FAST crawled property powershell
I want to map people properties in FAST Search: crawled properties to contents hidden using powershell. I know that I can get crawled properties using Get-FASTSearchMetadataCrawledProperty but this ...
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Specifying ACLs using the FAST Content API
I'm using the deprecated content API to push data into the FAST Search Server for Sharepoint 2010 index. Migrating to BCS is on the roadmap, but in the meantime I want to add ACL information to the ...
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API compatibility between FAST Search Server and Search Server 2010 Express
I'm looking to feed content into FAST Search Server . However, for development purposes, I would ideally use Search Server 2010 Express which is free to download and use.
Before going down that road, ...
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Querying FAST Search Server for Sharepoint from Search Webparts
I'm new to SharePoint and FAST.
In SharePoint 2007 implementation for our projects we used "Esp-Searchapi" for querying the back-end FAST ESP 5.3.
As we are now migrating to SharePoint 2010 and FAST ...
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Search results refinement based on document contents keywords
Do any of the search versions for SharePoint 2010 allow refinement of results based on keywords that appear within documents?
I know that the standard search functionality allows for searching within ...
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FAST Search Crawl DB sizing
Do we follow the standard (5% of content IIRC) sizing metrics for Crawl DBs when using FAST as our search server, within our Content SSA; or are there separate metrics for FAST (ie. is the crawl ...
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How do I integrate FAST Search with MOSS 2007?
We have two servers:
Server1: MOSS 2007 content with ESP web parts
Server2: SP 2010 acting as query server
We need to crawl the Server1 content from Server2, and installed ESP web parts on Server1 ...
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Sharepoint 2010: Full text plus faceted search over an External Content List using Search Services (or possibly FAST)
I have an External List over a products table in our database. I want to be able to build a search form over it via a full text search; in addition to being able to filter down on properties on my ...
