Three Main Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to FAST for SharePoint
I was fortunate to be one of three finalists in SharePoint Magazine’s Aspiring Author Contest. Today the article went live and I’m quite happy about it. You can read the article over at SharePoint...
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Query Suggestions in FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 (FS4SP)
Adding query suggestions to your search solution is a feature that can contribute to a better search experience for end-users. First of all, it makes us save time as we don’t have to type in the entire...
View ArticleWorking with crawled and managed properties via code
I was teaching a FAST for SharePoint Workshop today and we were doing labs on creating and mapping crawled properties to managed properties with the FAST Administration UI and via PowerShell. But one...
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The True Value of Enterprise Search Technology
flickr.com/theredproject Technology has no inherent business value. Technology doesn’t provide improved findabiliy, decision-making or knowledge management by itself. Technology just provides features...
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Document Thumbnails and PowerPoint Preview for your search results without...
[Originally posted at: http://techmikael.blogspot.com/2011/05/document-thumbnails-and-powerpoint.html] Microsoft offers three different flavors of search for SharePoint 2010: Foundation, Standard and...
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Learning about nctrl, and disabling the FAST Search Web crawler
In FAST Search for SharePoint (FS4SP), there are two methods for crawling web sites. Either use the built-in SharePoint crawler on your FAST Content SSA, or use the far more advanced FAST Search Web...
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User-Centric Design for Deploying FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint
The presentation I gave on behalf of Comperio at the 2011 Sharepoint Conferance in Anaheim California is now online here. It discusses a strategy for overcoming the challenges that implementers will...
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How FS4SP primary keys work
Just like in most systems that contains data, each indexed content item in FAST Search for SharePoint (FS4SP) is associated with a certain primary key. No surprises here – in order to update or remove...
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Best Bets – and nothing but the Best Bets!
In FAST Search for SharePoint (FS4SP), Best Bets are result items that are added manually to the results of a search query. But unless you edit the web part, FS4SP will also show you the Keyword...
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Once upon a time, there was a company called FAST…
…that came out of nowhere, worked its way to the top, and then all of a sudden earlier this year disappeared for good. Time has come to say farewell. In my previous blog post, Examining the new search...
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