• FS4SP SCOM management pack Best Practices

    Administrators wanting to monitor and receive alerts to FS4SP with SCOM can add the FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Management Pack. It is recommended to run SCOM 2007 R1 or R2. Below are some in depth descriptions of the most critical and best ...read more
  • What is WebAnalyzer and why does multiple content SSAs break it?

    What is WebAnalyzer ? The WebAnalyzer analyzes data to automatically improve the relevance of search results by counting and analyzing links. Within the pipeline is a stage named WebAnalyzer that parses links from the documents at document processing ...read more
  • FS4SP Backup and Restore error

    Good Day, I was asked a question about backups on a customer and found the answer which is semi tricky from the error you receive. Since I don’t see this error in any internal FAST ticketing system, alias or Bing I’ll send it out and hopefully ...read more
  • SharePoint 2010 PowerShell Script Series Part 2–Exporting Sites and Lists from Snapshots

    Snapshots and SharePoint 2010 are a great thing in that they provide an additional level of fault tolerance for any SharePoint 2010 farm.  A SharePoint Administrator can quickly restore Sites, Lists, or items from a snapshot.   This out ...read more
  • SharePoint PowerShell Script Series Part 3–Leveraging PowerShell to collect SharePoint Performance Monitor Data

    Troubleshooting SharePoint Performance issues are probably the most challenging issues for a SharePoint Administrator to troubleshoot. Collecting Performance Monitor output can take time because not only must you understand the options available in the ...read more