Few IT professionals take the time to learn what needs to be known to do disaster recovery well. Most labor under the pretense that good administration equals close to five-nines uptime. Most technical people do not see the value of planning for disasters until the unexpected has already happened, and the effects of a disaster involving a SharePoint farm—which today houses business information, line-of-business applications, sensitive information, extranets, and other highly important assets—can be staggering.
Pro SharePoint Disaster Recovery and High Availability, Second Edition will take you through a step-by-step process to show how to build an awareness and reaction plan for the inevitable. With a focus on real-world experiences and war stories, author Stephen Cummins weaves an expert tale of woe response and offers you:
- Ways to see the warning signs of disaster, and ways to avoid it
- Ways to respond to a disaster while it is happening
- Perhaps most importantly, how to develop a plan to deal with disaster when it inevitably does happen
- Steering Away from Disaster
- Planning Your Plan
- Processes and Procedures
- High Availability and Resilience
- Quality of Service
- Back Up a Step
- Monitoring and Alerts
- DIY Disaster Recovery
- Change Management and Disaster Recovery
- Disaster Recovery and the Cloud
- Best Practices and Worst Practices
- Final Conclusions
Stephen Cummins has absorbed everything he can about SharePoint since it was released in 2001. Since then, he has worked with more than 50 clients on three continlCž