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Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery Guide

By : Peter Ward
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Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery Guide

By: Peter Ward

Overview of this book

Where does it all go wrong with disaster recovery? Yes, why a disaster recovery plan fails the business and costs IT staff their jobs or a promotion? This book is an easytounderstand guide that explains how to get it right and why it often goes wrong. Given that Microsoft's SharePoint platform has become a missioncritical application where business operations just cannot run without complete uptime of this technology, disaster recovery is one of the most important topics when it comes to SharePoint. Yet, support and an appropriate approach for this technology are still difficult to come by, and are often vulnerable to technical oversight and assumptions. Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery Guide looks at SharePoint disaster recovery and breaks down the mystery and confusion that surrounds what is a vital activity to any technical deployment. This book provides a holistic approach with practical recipes that will help you to take advantage of the new 2013 functionality and cloud technologies. You will also learn how to plan, test, and deploy a disaster recovery environment using SharePoint, Windows Server, and SQL tools. We will also take a look at datasets and custom development. If you want to have an approach to disaster recovery that gives you peace of mind, then this is the book for you.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Virtual Environment Backup and Restore Procedures
Index

Getting started


Imagine you are the administrator of a SharePoint implementation for a large company that uses SharePoint for their corporate intranet, collaboration websites, enterprise search, and other mission-critical business processes. One day you are sitting at your desk and you get a call from a user saying that they are receiving an error when trying to access the intranet.

As you begin looking at this, you receive several more phone calls as well as e-mails from other users experiencing the same problem. You attempt to remotely log in to the SharePoint Central Administration server to check on the server logs and Unified Logging System (ULS) logs. However, there is no response from the server. What do you do now?

You begin with basic troubleshooting to see if you can determine what the issue is and to see if you can get it corrected in a timely manner. However, in this particular case you discover that your server, which runs Central Administration and several key SharePoint services...