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Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint is a new search solution that delivers the power of FAST with the simplicity and TCO of Microsoft. It provides the best general productivity search on the market AND makes it easy and economical to build high-value search applications.

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• Hyper-V VHD (virtual hard drive)
• This language: English

PLEASE NOTE:

• This download contains a single Virtual Machine for evaluating and demonstrating Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. The virtual machine contains the following pre-configured software:
  1. Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition x64, running as an Active Directory Domain Controller for the “CONTOSO.COM” domain with DNS and WINS
  2. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition with Analysis, Notification, and Reporting Services
  3. Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2
  4. Visual Studio 2010
  5. Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition
  6. Microsoft Office Web Applications
  7. FAST Search for SharePoint 2010
  8. Microsoft Project Server 2010
  9. Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010
  10. Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2010
  11. Microsoft Office Visio Ultimate 2010
  12. Microsoft Office Project Professional 2010
  13. Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2
• Active directory has been preconfigured over 200 “demo” users with metadata in an organizational structure. All of the user profiles have been imported and indexed for search within SharePoint Server 2010, with “contoso\administrator” granted administrator permissions.
• SharePoint Server 2010 has been configured in a “Complete” farm using Kerberos authentication and the default SQL Server 2008 instance for data.

Performance Considerations

• If possible, unpack and run the VM image on a separate, fast hard drive (7200 RPM or better) from the operating system of the host machine. If this is being done on a laptop, a second internal drive or external eSATA drive works best, though USB 2.0 (make sure it's 2.0, 1.1 is too slow) or Firewire is acceptable.
• For absolute best performance use a second internal SSD drive. Passwords for all users in the CONTOSO AD are "pass@word1" (remove quotes) (including the Administrator account).