Pro SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery and High Availability

Office as DIY DR Tool

It is worth mentioning, even though it’s not strictly SharePoint, that Word (2010) also helps preserve your users’ content by auto-saving and using something called the Backstage view. This is the default view when you click the File tab in Office. Documenting, training, and presenting this to users is the likeliest route for this information to get to them. I am presenting it here as another method for recovering lost content in the interest of completeness. It’s part of your organization’s disaster recovery processes in the sense that it’s a way to recover data. In prior versions of Office, Word would periodically save your document in the background when you were editing it. This file was retained so the user could use ...