Hi FAST'ers ! Just a quickie to remind everyone that there is one wiki page out there listing all updates regarding FS4SP: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/2796.fast-search-for-sharepoint-cumulative-updates.aspx The page has been updated last week to reflect the...

In this post I'll describe how to customize the document signature in FAST Search for SP2010. The documentsignature is the MP (integer) that we use to de-duplicate results (also known as collapsing). It is a SHA-256 generated integer. Get-FASTSearchMetadataManagedProperty -Name documentsignature...

The default Fast Search Server for SharePoint 2010 (FS4SP) comes with 2 verticals out of the box : All Sites and People . One may want to add further verticals to refine results for a type of contents (videos, feeds) or create a regionalized vertical (selecting documents with a sub or specific department...

Hello World of Search Just a quickie today about a very useful feature in 2010: search your SharePoint content from your desktop machine (through the FAST provider). Go to your favorite FAST Search Center. Issue a test query to end up in the results page. Locate and hit the icon as...

Context : FAST ESP 5.x Architecture If your fsearch process fails to start with the below error: Loading attribute vectors will exceed maximum memory usage, set to 1887436800 B (1800.00 MB). fsearch will not load this index. Please reduce index size or number of navigator fields and sortable fields...

Hi Back on that investigation on how to change the default AND operator (free text search) to OR. We saw in Part 1 that we could wrap the {searchboxQuery} with the ANY() operator in the Search Results WP. This presented a strong restriction in terms of supporting more complex queries in the search...

In 2013, you may want to change the default AND search operator between search terms to an OR. Requirement : emulate an ANY() query by default. ... The quickest (and dirty) way to do it is to change it in the search results web part properties. Step by Step Edit the WP properties...

As you have seen already Search in SharePoint 2013 Preview has been released. Check out the page : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj163951(v=office.15).aspx for more details. There are plenty of new things for developers like Query Web Service deprecation, REST support, SQL syntax support...