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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

SharePoint 2013 App Development Model


Until now, this chapter has concentrated on the farm solution model with which most of the readers are familiar. With SharePoint 2013, Microsoft has introduced the Cloud App Model. There are excellent resources on MSDN and other sites that explain the pros and cons in detail, but it is necessary to understand the fundamental difference and the impact on our Disaster Recovery procedures.

The Cloud App Model essentially requires applications that may be hosted on one of the following three places:

  • A hosting provider

  • Auto-hosted using Windows Azure and SQL Azure

  • SharePoint hosted

This cloud model is illustrated in the following figure:

Note

The Apps for SharePoint overview and MSDN Library can be found at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fp179930.aspx

While the Cloud App Model is clearly needed to support the Microsoft App Store, the real power is realized when building SharePoint applications that can take advantage of Microsoft Azure on-demand computer...