Microsoft Fast Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

November 22, 2009

Short honk: If you have not downloaded Microsoft Fast 2010, you can do so at http://ow.ly/DH7M. I don’t know how long this link will be live. You must register to download the files. The first step will be to download and install the SharePoint Server 2010 beta. You may want to take a peek at the instructions here before launching the installation. A tip—When you try to print XPS files, we have better luck viewing the XPS documents within Internet Explorer 8.x. You can then print with fewer hassles from that application. Enjoy! Remember: ease of use, high performance, and bells and whistles that once cost $250,000 and up are yours for SharePoint 2010. A good test would be to get a Google Search Appliance and this Microsoft Fast 2010 package. Get two engineers and tell each to “Go”. Keep track of the time required to install, debug, and deploy the test index to one person. Which is better, faster, cheaper?

Some potentially useful related links are:

The main Microsoft page for enterprise search ping my watcher with the fact that some changes were made. You can explore this splash page which features lots of uses of the word “fast” here. A quick check of the list of add ons reveals that most of the “old” Fast features are now listed. I wonder if some of the more interesting ones have been rewritter? Let me know if this is a cosmetics play or an engineering rebuild. (I hope for the latter.)

Have fun.

Stephen Arnold, November 22, 2009

I want to disclose to the US Department of Education that I was neither paid nor given special instruction to write this news item. However, you may want to make sure your knowledge of scripting is on the above average side before you get too frisky with Microsoft Fast 2010, the SharePoint edition.

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Microsoft, News, Search, SharePoint

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2 Responses to “Microsoft Fast Search Server 2010 for SharePoint”

Colin Rippey on December 1st, 2009 7:49 am

Hi Stephen,

Have you installed and configured FAST Search for SharePoint? I have been unable to get it working and was wondering what your experience has been.

Cheers,

Colin
jayesh on March 29th, 2010 4:12 pm

this is very nice web searching speed

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.