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Fast Search for SharePoint: crawler process blocked due to memory capacity limit by Bas

This week I encountered the problem that the indexation of content didn’t seem to end. After 5 hours of crawling, my 1000 html pages of content still weren't indexed by the Fast crawler. After putting on my Sherlock Holmes outfit, I started...

GeoSearch with Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 - Part 3: how to use the latitude and longitude in your queries by Bas

This is the third and last part of a series of blogposts about GeoSearch with Fast Search for SharePoint. I recently held some presentations about extending the power of Fast (on DIWUG and the Dutch TechDays 2012 ) and one of the subjects that I talked...
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GeoSearch with Fast Search for SharePoint 2010 - Part 2: Custom pipeline extensions by Bas

This is the second part of a series of blogposts about GeoSearch with Fast Search for SharePoint. I recently held some presentations about extending the power of Fast (on DIWUG and the Dutch TechDays 2012 ) and one of the subjects that I talked about...
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Fast Search for SharePoint caveat: Apply a sortformula with managed properties of type decimals by Bas

Fast Search for SharePoint provides four great possibilities to influence the sort order of your resultset that was returned: Sort by Managed property Sort by Rank Sort by Formula Sort in Random order When I was working on my presentaion and demo for...
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Fast Search for SharePoint problems - simplified architecture diagram by Bas

Recently I had a few colleagues (and myself) who tried to install FAST search for SharePoint on their development workstation. Despite the well written installation guidelines on MSDN , they had several problems, and sadly enough, they all faced different...

SharePoint 2010 - Fast Search Center site template not available (bug?!) by Bas

Recently I found out that, my Fast Search Center was not available from the “New Site” menu. Both the english as well the dutch fast search template was not available. As I saw this happen before, I checked out the site collection features...

Fast Search for SharePoint gotcha - query suggestions by Bas

At the company i work for, we do have around 30(?!) different labels and we decided that all websites of those labels, should be hosted on one platform: SharePoint 2010. This consolidation to one platform should really decrease costs, because we now have...

Fast: Adding managed metadata properties for the use with scopes in SharePoint 2010 by Bas

Lately I was working on a project that required to make use of scopes and some managed metadata properties in those scopes. For some reason, those managed metadata properties didnt show up in my scope selection dropdownlist, but I was sure that this metadata...

Fast for SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Crawler is Dead by Bas

Lately, I installed Fast locally on my machine for development purposes, and it was working as intended. Crawled a lot of local (and external) content, but suddenly, my Enterprise crawler was not working. nctrl status showed me that the Enterprise crawler...
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My SharePoint 2010 & Fast session is online! by Bas

On the Dutch Microsoft DevDays (or Techdays, as they were called), I had a session about SharePoint 2010 and Fast. It was recorded and is now published on Channel 9. It's pretty weird to see and hear yourself presenting. If you are interested in:...
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