BCM – DRP Articles

Managing SharePoint Platform Risk

  Many organisations, taking SharePoint on for the first time, opt to go for a single server instance deployment of SharePoint. However, they find it easy to forget in the heat of getting a single SharePoint production environment deployed, that without defining...

SharePoint Conference Full Farm Failover Demo – SPC11

At the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim was demoed using SQL Server “Denali” Always On to fail-over a 14.4 TB SharePoint content database to a secondary database server in 45 seconds. Very impressive, and you are able to get more information here including seeing the...

SQL Log Shipping in Sharepoint – A Disaster Recovery Strategy

Defining a disaster recovery plan using collaborative tools which have a database backend is not an easy thing to achieve. The issues are technical and yep, you guessed, non-technical... In this short article, I'll describe a what it means and the high level strategy...
Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery in Sharepoint  This section will describe what you need to know in order to protect the SharePoint environment. There is one golden rule when it comes to SharePoint backups: In other words, if you make a backup of a site, you will be able to restore...

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Developing DRP

Developing DRP

This section will describe what you need to know in order to protect the SharePoint environment. There is one golden rule when it comes to SharePoint backups - make sure you can restore backups in the timeframe required by the business. The consequence is that you...

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Business Continuity

Business Continuity

Business Continuity is a management process that provides a framework to ensure the resilience of your business to any eventuality, to help ensure continuity of service to your key customers and the protection of your brand and reputation. In defining a SharePoint BCM...

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DRP Guide

DRP Guide

Here's a guide to Disaster Recovery and building a strategy . Disk crashes, power outages, communication loss-are all minor disasters that happen on an occassional basis - and most of us have a back-up plan ready to put into effect. We are dependent on computers to...

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Developing a Contingency Plan

Developing a Contingency Plan

A contingency plan guide. Every company, and each of its locations, is susceptible to disaster. Disk crashes, power outages, communication loss-are all minor disasters that happen on an occassional basis-and most of us have a back-up plan ready to put into effect. But...

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Disaster Recovery Planning Framework

Disaster Recovery Planning Framework

A great little template that can be used when working through a Disaster Recovery format for an organisation. - Excerp from the first paragraph: "It is proposed that each business unit be required to produce its own DRP, which will be integrated with the overall DRP...

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Guide to Business Continuity Planning

Guide to Business Continuity Planning

A good guide to Business Continuty Management is available for download. Business Continuity Management is a process driven from the top of the organisation. The first stage has to be an acceptance by the Board or the Executive Committee of the organisation that BCM...

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