Summary

As this chapter shows, there are many factors that need to be considered when planning your plan. The first is getting management buy-in. The next is to get people to change from overly simplistic understandings of SharePoint to something that captures its complexity. This is where you update weak metaphors. This is very important, because stakeholders often don’t appreciate that SharePoint is a complex system.

The next step is writing something that will quantify why the DR plan is needed: the Business Impact Assessment. This helps establish a consensus as to the RTO/RPOs and the cost-to-benefit ratio of the DR options. There will be more detail on the technical options in later chapters. Another important factor to understand is physical ...

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