I was recently clued into an pretty interesting little tool that can be useful when debugging how a document is crawled using FAST Search for SharePoint 2010. It will crack a document and break out for you exactly what properties are being extracted and with what values, as well as how it’s crawling...

I recently had kind of a tough time getting a non-admin FAST server configured successfully in a pretty vanilla environment, so I wanted to pass on some tips and tricks that got me past it. In FAST you basically have two types of servers when you are doing a multiple server deployment – your admin...

User Context is a feature of FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 that is analagous to using audiences with search results. As you start to test this out you may find that within the site collection you can create FAST keywords and document promotions and demotions, but when you try and manage the User Contexts...

One of the great new features around Search in SharePoint 2010 is the concept of query suggestions. There are pre-query and post-query suggestions. A pre-query suggestion is a type-ahead feature that appears in the search box on the search page. As you start typing in your query, SharePoint will go find...

I can take ZERO credit for this, but I saw a very useful email today where Jan described how to create a FAST search scope using PowerShell. So I'm just the messenger here but thought it was worth sharing: New-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryScope -SearchApplication "FAST Query Application" -Name "NewScope...

A User Context is a cool thing in FAST Search for SharePoint that allows you to target search results based on contextual information about a person. It could be what department they're in, what group they work for, etc. You can create different user contexts and associate them with best bets. That allows...