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If you ever happen to change the password of your FASTUser, SPFAST for example, following are the steps you need to follow: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff384287.aspx When you have a 2 server environment, just ensure, you change the windows service passwords in both the Admin and Non-Admin Server. In the above instructions link, it has been specified that you should change the FASTSearchAdminAppPool account's identity in the IIS. When you look at it for the first time in your admin server, you will be surprised to not find your IIS! Not to worry, your password change has not done any damage to the IIS. FAST Installation by default installs the Web Server Role but does not install the IIS Management Console. So add "IIS Management Console" role services to your Web Server Role. And then you will be able to find your FASTSearchAdminAppPool, where you can now change your identity. Ensure, you restart your FAST Servers.

I have a 2 Server FAST 2010 Search Server environment. Initially you would have installed with the default location of C:\FASTSearch. Later, if you would like to change the index location, to let's say a SAN Drive where you have mapped a SAN Partition of few terrabytes Go to FAST 2010 PowerShell of both SPFAST1 and SPFAST2. Run nctrl status You should see the relevant services running. In my SPFast2, I have the RTS Indexer service running. I have changed the FAST Index Location to E: (SAN Partition) in the SPFAST2 machine. The configuration of index and Filter XML Directories are present in c:\FASTSearch\etc\rtsplatformrc.xml file. After I changed, I restarted the machine and bingo, I could see the index files moved to the SAN Partition!

I did a comparison between SharePoint 2010 and FAST Search Server 2010 and also for certain search needs, identified certain 3rd party tools! - This I thought would be useful to many!  Download from this link http://www.sendspace.com/file/3kd8se