Synopses & Reviews
Microsoft's SharePoint platform is a complex, diverse technical tool designed to meet a range of business needs and uses. It requires several other platforms and applications for implementation, and it can be integrated with other external line of business applications. This diversity also applies to the numerous methods, tools, and approaches that can be used to preserve your SharePoint farm if it becomes affected by a catastrophic event. The majority of this book introduces you to those methods, tools, and approaches for backing up and restoring SharePoint. After it covers all the crucial technical aspects of preserving SharePoint with the tools Microsoft provides for it, it introduces you to the key concepts and activities necessary to develop a disaster recovery plan to implement those technical practices.
Synopsis
Microsoft's SharePoint platform is a complex, diverse technical tool designed to meet a range of business needs and uses. It requires several other platforms and applications for implementation, and it can be integrated with other external line of business applications. This diversity also applies to the numerous methods, tools, and approaches that can be used to preserve your SharePoint farm if it becomes affected by a catastrophic event. The majority of this book introduces you to those methods, tools, and approaches for backing up and restoring SharePoint. After it covers all the crucial technical aspects of preserving SharePoint with the tools Microsoft provides for it, it introduces you to the key concepts and activities necessary to develop a disaster recovery plan to implement those technical practices.
About the Author
John Ferringer is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in the installation and configuration of WSS v3, MOSS 2007, and SCOM 2007. He has co-authored the SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide (Cengage Learning). He is a Solutions Architect for Apparatus, Inc. in Indianapolis, IN, has over five years of experience administering and supporting SharePoint technologies and over eleven years working in the technology consulting industry. John also runs SearchForSharePoint.com, a custom search engine for SharePoint.Sean McDonough is a Managing Consultant and the SharePoint Team Lead for Cardinal Solutions Group, a consulting company based in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has over a decade of experience in the IT industry and has served as the application architect in the creation of a corporate disaster recovery implementation for a Fortune 500 financial institution. Sean is an MCTS, an MCPD, and the co-author of the SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide (Cengage Learning).
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Getting Started with SharePoint Disaster Recovery. Chapter 2: End User Resources. Chapter 3: SharePoint Designer's Backup and Restore Tools. Chapter 4: The Central Administration Site's Backup and Restore Tools Chapter 5: STSADM.exe's Backup and Restore Operations. Chapter 6: Tips and Tricks for SharePoint's Built-In Backup and Restore Tools. Chapter 7: Custom Development and Scripting for SharePoint Disaster Recovery. Chapter 8: SQL Server 2005 Backup and Restore. Chapter 9: SQL Server 2005 High Availability. Chapter 10: Windows Server 2003 Backup and Restore. Chapter 11: Windows Server 2003 High Availability. Chapter 12: SharePoint Disaster Recovery Planning and Key Concepts. Chapter 13: SharePoint Disaster Recovery Design and Implementation. Chapter 14: SharePoint Disaster Recovery Testing and Maintenance. Chapter 15: Conclusion.