Deploying FAST Search Service Applications
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint requires two service applications to function properly:
• The FAST Content SSA is responsible for crawling and feeding content for the FAST backend. Its configuration contains all the content sources except People.
• The FAST Query SSA is responsible for serving the queries and crawling the People content source. This service routes the People Search to the SharePoint 2010 Search engine, and all of other queries to the FAST Search Engine.
Because of that, the deployment of these services is more complex than in the case of SharePoint 2010 Search. To build your FAST Search configuration, first you have to create the FAST Content SSA, and then create the FAST Query ...
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