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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

I feel the SharePoint end users don't care about SharePoint DR. Is this true?


You are right! They don't care, but they should. This is particularly frustrating when months have been spent drafting, refining, and testing the DR plan only for it to be stored in someone's e-mail folder which probably will not be accessible on the day that it is needed.

Lack of attention is the single element that can sink your master DR plan before it ever gets a chance to shine. This is usually because of the reasons explained next.

Why was I not told?

Believe it or not, most employees believe this subject should be the responsibility of the IT department, yes whether it is a deleted file or a complete power failure in the building. They just assume someone will take care of the SharePoint site and that the backups will work and it is business as usual. They don't understand that they may have a role in preventing content from going offline and allowing the team to be collaborating together. This is because they...