Today I wanted to download FAST Search to have a look at it, but seeing the requirements I can not install it on my VHD. Unfortunately!
The requirements are:
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008 R2; Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2
The requirements below apply to single server with built-in database installations and server farm [...]
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There are more Microsoft 2010 (beta) products available for download.
SharePoint Foundation
SharePoint Foundation 2010 is the new version of Windows SharePoint Services.
You can download it here.
FAST Search
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Beta provides powerful high-end search delivered through SharePoint. It includes all the search features and integration capabilities of SharePoint Server 2010, plus the use [...]
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Because of the strict security on Windows Server 2008 it is no longer possible to just copy and paste the dll files to the GAC like we did with version 2.5. You have to do this with a tool called GACutil.exe. This tool can be found (when you have installed Visual Studio 8 ) in [...]
Continue reading about Faceted Search 3.0 installation with GACutil.exe on Windows Server 2008
The situation is that I created a demo portal with a lot of sites each with a document library. Some sites are location sites, others are department sites etc. The document library on the location sites each have a site column (metadata) with a prefilled value corresponding with the name of the site and the [...]
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Recently I was troubleshooting a SharePoint farm of a customer. The crawl of the content sources did not work and always ended with a “access denied” error in the crawl log. In the eventlog event ID 2436 appeared: “Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add [...]
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If you are doing a search using the top level search box of your root site, it is a known limitation that you are always redirected to osssearchresults.aspx instead of the configured search center.
In order to redirect the search to the preferred search center, edit the Osssearchresults.aspx page. The Osssearchresults.aspx file is located on the web front-end [...]
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FAST Search for SharePoint, a new search server that will add the high-end search capabilities of FAST ESP into Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server, will be available as a part of the next release of the Microsoft Office system. For customers who are interested in the product, Microsoft also announced ESP for SharePoint, a special [...]
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At a customer SharePoint site the crawl log is full of this warning: “The file reached the maximum download limit. Check that the full text of the
document can be meaningfully crawled.”
This means that documents can not be crawled properly. SharePoint has a limit of 16MB. You can change this limit by doing this:
1. Start Registry [...]
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