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- New SharePoint Recovery White PaperMarch 24 2008
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A new white paper on enterprise SharePoint recovery by Adam Woodruff has just become available on Quest Software web site. This is an overview of things to consider and tools available natively for SharePoint backup and recovery on a high level, primarily focused on WSS v3 and MOSS 2007. Main purpose of this paper is to help with the big picture, before you proceed to more detailed technical SharePoint backup and restore tutorials or videos.
Adam Woodruff is one of the smart people here at Quest. He’s a Solutions Architect for SharePoint team, which seems to mean “the guy who spends about 25 hours a day with customers helping to implement their SharePoint strategy.” He is also a speaker at technical events like the recent SharePoint Conference in Seattle, where he gave a session about consolidating enterprise knowledge into SharePoint. I’ve been trying to force Adam into blogging for a while now, and hope we’ll see some interesting SharePoin
- Do You Talk to Your SQL DBA?March 18 2008
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SharePoint administrators have various backgrounds, and there are few who have managed SQL prior to SharePoint. But those who come from collaboration or web pages management sometimes do not realize how important SQL is to SharePoint, and see them as two different worlds. Recently, there have been some positive movements and resources start appear that will help SQL and SharePoint admins to collaborate:
- Database Maintenance for SharePoint whitepaper by Bill Baer. Even if you are not managing SQL side of the house, be sure you read it and discuss with your DBA. It explains various maintenance tasks available in SQL and how they are relevant to your SharePoint performance and stability.
- Several good governance sessions by Joel Oleson during the recent SharePoint Conference - if you have access to the My SharePoint Conference site, be sure to download the slide dec
- SharePoint backup and recovery videosFebruary 25 2008
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A bunch of SharePoint backup and recovery videos were published recently on the web. So grab some coffee and prepare to spend next couple hours watching:
- In Chapter 6 of “SharePoint Advanced Content” on Technet James Petrosky, Senior Consultant and SharePoint Ranger from Microsoft, is talking about backup, recovery, and high availability for SharePoint. In addition to explaining content recovery vs disaster recovery, this presentation has few cool tips on how you can use SQL Server’s features to ensure data availability. This also includes a brief demo of Data Protection Manager 2007.
- The overview of SharePoint 2007 protection with DPM 2007 from the DPM team is also available separately. This is the same presentation included in the broader James’ video.
- Finally, a recording of the recent SharePoint recovery best practices webcast by Doug Davis just became available -