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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

Customizations backup and restore


There are many possible customizations that you can make to your SharePoint sites, and unfortunately there is no one, definitive backup/restore process. Customizations can be developed site elements including WebParts, workflows, event receivers, timer jobs, and so on. Customizations can be authored site elements such as master pages, forms, layout pages, and so on. Customizations can also be third party products and their associated application components. Some customizations can be packaged as solutions; others may not. Each kind of customization requires a different type of backup. This section explains how to back up trusted solutions through the Central Administration GUI and Windows PowerShell. Be sure to refer to the considerations and caveats subsection for more information on the different types of customizations and recommended backups.

Back up using the Central Administration GUI

To back up a trusted solution by using the Central Administration...