Tag Archive: FAST

Apr
18

Total SharePoint Search: Document Recognition Technology (DRT)

As you’re sitting here reading this article, chances are that you aren’t thinking a lot about each individual word. You’re simply recognising the words “on sight” because they are familiar to you. The same can be said about searching for documents that you’ve created.  If you can recognise the structure quickly then you’re able to …

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Jan
05

Troubleshooting FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Installation

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FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010 is a  rel high-end Search solution on the top of SharePoint 2010, but sometimes its installation and configuration can surprise us. In my experience, there are some typical error messages and solutions I’ve collected in a list for you. Hope it’ll help and save some time while you’re installing: …

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Mar
21

Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 Webinar

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Back on the 23rd February BA Insight hosted a webinar deep dive into the exciting new features and architecture of FAST for SharePoint 2010, with many live demos throughout the presentation. I was lucky enough to attend this virtual event but in case you missed it they have now made the session available on demand …

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Feb
08

Teaching an old dog new tricks. Using PowerShell to make life better.

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PowerShell has been around for a while now and I use it quite a lot. I’m a programmer so I like to be able to run scripts with loops etc so I get excited that using PowerShell I can display my 8 times tables with this code: foreach ($num in 1..12 ) { $num * …

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