How to get SharePoint 2010 people search to work together with FAST Search 2010

If you install FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint you will notice that you get some extra service applications – a FAST Query Search Service Application and a FAST Content Search Service Application. The people search is actually handled by the FAST Query Search Service Application – so this is where you need to do some extra configurations:

• Go to Central Admin and click Manage Service Applications > Select the FAST Query Search Service App and click Manage in the Ribbon)
• Create a new crawl rule:
• Path http://[servername];sps3://[servername]
• Crawl configuration : Include all items in this path - crawl SharePoint content as http pages
• Specify authentication: Use the default content access account
• Content sources - Make sure that both http://[servername] and sps3://[servername] are listed in the content source listing.
• Configure security on the User Profile Service Application. Go to Central Admin and click Manage Service Applications > Select the User Profile Service Application and click Administrators in the ribbon. Make sure that you add the default content access account in this screen and give it at least permission to "Retrieve People Data for Search Crawlers".

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