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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

Identifying threats to your SharePoint environment


Now that you have an inventory of each of the components of your SharePoint environment, the next step is to identify threats to the key components that should be included in your SharePoint DR plan. The primary threats that could affect your SharePoint environment and put you in a DR situation are typically related to the physical architecture as opposed to the logical architecture. This section focuses on threats to your physical architecture, although you should be aware that threats to your logical architecture, such as issues with web applications, service applications, and apps could also affect your SharePoint environment and put you in DR situation.

Physical architecture

Any disruption or failure in the physical architecture of your SharePoint environment can cause downtime, which could necessitate activating the SharePoint DR plan, if the issue could not be resolved through normal troubleshooting. Such a situation could be a natural...