While we get this information cleaned-up, fully-documented, and stored in a more “formal” location (e.g. http://support.microsoft.com ), here are some initial Best Practices the FAST Technical Support and Escalation Teams have been successful with in terms of resolving various FAST Search...

Recently, the FAST Search Escalation Team has begun to see customers encountering a higher-than-expected rate of post-installation configuration/deployment failures due to IPSEC problems. As a follow-up to my previous post (see " We need to talk "), I wanted to call out a very subtle but important point...

Issue: After installing an Administrative node of FAST Search Server 2010, additional Non-Administrative FAST Search Server 2010 nodes cannot communicate with the Admin node. Subsequently, the non-admin nodes to fail download the deployment.xml, and as such, fail to finish configuration successfully...