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Categories of cmdlets
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint cmdlets cover four basic areas:
 Administration
 Security
 Index schema
 Spell tuning
For more information, refer to the overview page for FAST Search Server 2010 for
SharePoint.
Developer Experience
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Web Parts use the same unified object model as
SharePoint Server 2010 and the other search platforms from Microsoft. The result is that
if you develop a custom solution that uses the query object model for SharePoint Server
2010, for example, then it will continue to work if you migrate your code to FAST Search
Server 2010 for SharePoint.
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint —Services and Components
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint consists of a number of different services and
components. The following sections describe the services and components.
FAST Search Connector
The FAST Search Connector enables you to retrieve content for indexing from
SharePoint farms, public Exchange folders, Web sites, databases and file shares.
You install and deploy the FAST Search Connector as a Search Service Application (SSA)
on a SharePoint application server, and it shares the same crawler/connector framework
as SharePoint Server 2010. This includes the Business Data Catalog functionality, which
is substantially improved from Office SharePoint Server 2007.
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint also includes additional indexing connectors for
more targeted content retrieval needs. This includes connectors for database access
(JDBC), Lotus Notes, and a dedicated Web crawler.
Web Link Analysis (Web Analyzer)
The Web Analyzer has two main functions: It analyzes search click-through logs and
hyperlink structures. Both contribute to better-ranked search results. Items that show