SharePoint - Is It SharePoint Search Or FAST Search

If you set up your SharePoint site to use FastSearch and you want to make sure that your SharePoint site is using FAST run the "Get-SPEnterpriseSearchExtendedQueryProperty" PowerShell command. If you have FAST set up correctly you should see something like this:

PS C:\> Get-SPEnterpriseSearchExtendedQueryProperty -SearchApplication "Search Service Application" 

PropertyKey                               Value  
-----------                               -----  
FASTSearchContextProperties               SPS-Location,SPS-Responsibility 
FASTSearchAdminServiceAuthenticationUser  comp\svc_spadmin  
FASTSearchAdminServiceLocation            http://intranet.contoso.com:13257  
FASTSearchQueryServiceLocation            http://intranet.contoso.com:13287  
FASTSearchContextCacheTimeout  
FASTSearchManagedPropertyResultMapping  
FASTSearchDisableUserContext  
FASTSearchResourceStoreLocation           http://intranet.contoso.com:13255  
FASTSearchAlternateAccessMapProperties 

A regular SharePoint search setup would show something like this:

PropertyKey                               Value  
-----------                               -----  
FASTSearchContextProperties               SPS-Location,SPS-Responsibility 
FASTSearchAdminServiceAuthenticationUser  
FASTSearchAdminServiceLocation  
FASTSearchQueryServiceLocation  
FASTSearchContextCacheTimeout  
FASTSearchManagedPropertyResultMapping  
FASTSearchDisableUserContext  
FASTSearchResourceStoreLocation  
FASTSearchAlternateAccessMapProperties