This chapter explains data prevention and recovery procedures that should be applied by users with their SharePoint collaboration activities to prevent data loss.
The reader of this book is probably technical, and therefore perhaps a little surprised by the title and the topic of this chapter. You probably assume that DR is an IT department activity, so why should the end user even think about it?
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Well this DR concept is wrong and might work in the mainframe world, but with SharePoint, the approach should be "we are all in this together".
Financially, this approach makes sense as well. The following screenshot shows the SharePoint costs for 1,000 users over a 3-year period. If IT support can be reduced by just 2 percent through end user education, the savings would equate to almost $40,000, by not doing a lot of extra work. Unfortunately, this is often overlooked, because there is a perception that end users already have SharePoint knowledge...