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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

How to get my organization moving in the right direction


So you need to do some SharePoint DR planning, but aren't sure how to start Depending on the size of the task and the level of prior focus on Business Continuity (BC) or DR planning within your organization, this could involve anything from simply sprucing up your existing documentation to the overwhelming feat of creating new plan designs and implementations. If the latter is your situation, don't feel alone. There are many data center managers, IT executives, and application owners that feel like they're behind the 8-ball with their business continuity and disaster planning efforts. Rest assure and know that with the right steps as outlined in this book, you can get things moving forward in the right direction.

One of the approaches that the authors recommend is the 60-40 rule, which means that you should start out and by identifying goals and objectives that are only 60 percent of where you would ideally wish to see the end-state...