Was chatting to friends in a Pub about Disaster Recovery in SharePoint and in particular what constitutes a ‘fully available’ platform, focusing on those organisations just starting off with SharePoint. I thought I’d put my thoughts on a blog article and share them with you. Well, it’s easy to forget in the heat of getting a single SharePoint production environment deployed, that without defining a fully available topology that one may be creating a single point of failure scenario, where the data is stored in a SQL or database instance is located on the same machine running the content management system, and leading...
SharePoint Archiving...
History has a way of repeating itself. Thankfully, when we learn from the mistakes of the past, we are able to address new challenges more quickly and in smarter ways. In the early 1990s, email emerged as a collaboration mechanism, speeding up communications between multiple parties. It...
SharePoint Conferenc...
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 video of the...
SQL Log Shipping in ...
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 for use. Log shipping...
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 that site, and nothing...
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 will need to develop a...
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 it provides a basis for...
GEMBackup – Sh...
Introduction The command line backup / restore routine in SharePoint environment whilst good does not offer any scheduling capability. There are of course products providing granular backup (e.g. DOCAVE) but this is geared to corporate site collections. This document describes the GEMBACKUP...
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 run our...
Developing a Conting...
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 what about major...
Disaster Recovery Pl...
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 managed by...
Guide to Business Co...
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 is a valid approach to...