Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint, EDU, OLP-NL User Manuals

Table of Contents

• Abstract

  1
• How to Use This Document

  2
• Introduction

  3
• Technical Problems Solved by FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

  4
• Microsoft Enterprise Search Products Overview

  6
• Microsoft Server-Side Search Products

  6
• Capabilities Comparison

  6
• Content Repositories

  7
• Indexing Scale

  8
• Developer Information

  9
• Enterprise Search Features in FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

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• End-User Perspective

  10
• IT Professional Perspective

  11
• Developer Perspective

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• FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

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• Enterprise Search Enhancements in FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint

  12
• Visual Search Capabilities

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• Document Thumbnails

  12
• Scrolling PowerPoint previews

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• Visual Best Bets

  12
• Conversational Search Capabilities

  13
• Sort Results on Managed Properties

  13
• Deep Results Refinement

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• Similar Results

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• Result Collapsing

  14
• Contextual Search Capabilities

  14
• Relevancy Tuning by Document or Site Promotions

  14
• Synonyms

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• Managed Properties and Metadata creation

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• Property Extraction

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• Rank Profiles

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• Linguistics

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• FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint for End Users

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• FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint User Experience

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• Enhanced Search Results

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• Social Search

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• Finding People

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• Mining and Discovering Expertise

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• Improving Search based on Social Behavior

  23
• Custom Search Solutions

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• FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint for IT Professionals

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• FAST Search Server 2010 Architecture Overview

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• Modular and Scalable Architecture

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• Integration with Search Center

  27
• IT Professional Experience

  27
• Windows PowerShell Support

  27
• Categories of cmdlets

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• Developer Experience

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• FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint —Services and Components

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• FAST Search Connector

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• Web Link Analysis (Web Analyzer)

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• Item Processing

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• Indexing

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• Query Matching

  30
• Query Processing

  30
• Connector Framework

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• New Connector Features

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• Creating Connectors

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• Search Administrator Walkthroughs

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• Administering FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Managed Properties

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• Search Administration at the Site Collection Level

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• FAST Site Collection Settings

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• Appendix A: Search Terminology

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• Appendix B: Feature Comparison between Search Products

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• Appendix C: Resources Available for Evaluating SharePoint Server 2010

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