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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 have written the DR plan but will it work?


If your DR plan is a 30-page document that has been written up by a sole individual and e-mailed to the IT department with the hope that everyone is going to read, understand, and be able to act on its contents, then you can pretty much guarantee that your DR plan will fail.

Writing the plan is the first step, but the plan needs to be continuously shared with other team members and when the plan is implemented, communications and updates must continue as stated in Chapter 1, Planning and Key Concepts – What Not to Forget, and Chapter 2, Creating, Testing, and Maintaining the DR Plan. Keys are the defined roles within your DR plan, with who is responsible for the backup and restoration of the technologies such as Windows Server, the SQL Server databases, and the communications to the organization.

Another important aspect of a DR plan is the practice of testing the recovery process which obviously confirms that the plan works.

When a recovery is first...