Steps to Create and set up the Content Search Service Application
A.
Go to Application Management and click Manage Services Applications. Then click on New, Search
Service. Create New Search Service Application and enter the Name. In the FAST Service Application
select FAST Search Connector and set the Search Account.
B.
Go to Central Administrator, click on System Settings. In Farm Management section, click Manage
Farm Search, Click Enable Search. Click Ok to finish.
C.
From Windows PowerShell, run the start-spSearch cmdlet.
D.
Go to Central Administration, in the System Settings click on Manage services on server. On
Services on Server page, in the Server box, select the Search Service server. Find the row whose
Services column value is Search Service. In the value in the Status column is Stopped, click Start in
the Action column.
Explanation:
Resources: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff381261.aspx
To be able to crawl content with the indexing connectors integrated in Microsoft SharePoint Server
2010, you must prepare the FAST Search Content Search Service Application (Content SSA). The
Content SSA will crawl content and feed it into the FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint back-end.
After you have created the Content SSA and before you add a content source and configure crawling
with the Content SSA, you must enable SSL communication between FAST Search Server 2010 for
SharePoint and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This is mandatory; you will not be able to feed
content to FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint without enabling SSL communication.