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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

Cloud responsibility


Regarding that last bullet point, it is worth noting that SharePoint 2013 is available in different flavors that can be deployed in a variety of ways with respect to cloud consumption, but this type of deployment and associated integrations can dictate the distribution of responsibility. While most cloud providers typically stress a "shared responsibility" approach to cloud computing, it may be difficult to ascertain the boundaries of that responsibility, which also applies as much to DR as it does to ongoing operations.

Let's take a high-level look at the following three general cloud deployments as they relate to shared responsibility:

  • SaaS: SharePoint Online is a subscription-based service that provides customers with an enterprise-grade solution for creating websites on which to share documents and information with colleagues and other customers. SharePoint Online is one of several cloud services offered as part of Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft's premiere SaaS offering...