The new FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 provides new capabilities for building rich “conversational” user experiences. This session will drill into these unique capabilities, including: * Customizable content processing * Automatic entity extraction * Configurable relevance ranking * User context and more Sam Hassani has been working with Microsoft’s Premier Support customers as a Premier Field Engineer for the past three years. Sam’s expertise lies in operations, optimisation and support. When working with customers, Sam’s mission is to help them to deploy and operate healthy environments primarily achieved through extensive risk-assessments of enterprise-MOSS environments and knowledge transfer to technical staff. Sam has carried out a lot of work on the patching and upgrade processes for SharePoint 2007, working closely with the SharePoint product group to develop quality content on the end-to-end best practices for patching and upgrading SharePoint, and has continued to extend this knowledge to SharePoint 2010. Other keen areas of interest in SharePoint server to Sam are Search, Disaster Recovery, High availability, and Publishing in Extranet scenarios