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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 Cookbook

By : Robert Heldblom, Robert Hedblom
Book Image

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 Cookbook

By: Robert Heldblom, Robert Hedblom

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding SharePoint management tasks


This recipe will cover the information that you need to understand the SharePoint management tasks.

The most common management tasks for SharePoint are:

  • Changing the SharePoint farm administrator password

  • Adding databases to the SharePoint farm

  • Removing databases from the SharePoint farm

  • Switching frontend web servers

How to do it...

It is important to have a decent password security policy within a company or organization. When the password of the SharePoint farm administrator is changed, it will reflect negatively on the DPM protection. You need to rerun the ConfigureSharePoint.exe executable that is described in Configuring the SharePoint VSS recipe of this chapter. When the password for the SharePoint farm administrator is changed, DPM will not be able to discover any changes in the SharePoint farm or update the URL that points to the SharePoint items, and the recovery of the entire SharePoint farm cannot be initialized from the DPM server. The easiest...