SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Server Process

1. SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery process Created By: Ben Ahmed Date: 02/09/2008

2. Introduction What I’ll be Doing?: Restoring the Whole MOSS Farm Environment (Currently consists of 3 machines) I’ll be using 3 Virtual Machines to Restore Restoring any individual web applications onto the VM’s i.ehttp://identity.lovells.com

3. Overview What we currently have

4. Complete MOSS Farm Restore What We’ll finish with

5. DR Scenarios?

6. Loss OF MOSS Farm In the Event of the Complete Loss of our Farm! We will take 3 steps in the following order: 1/ Install & Configure MOSS on Index Server LONMOSDR03 2/ Install & Configure MOSS on Web Front-end LONMOSDR01 3/ Install & Configure MOSS on Web Front-end LONMOSDR02

7. Index Server LONMOSDR03 services Assign MOSS Services Initialize Indexes Propargation on Web-Front-Ends 1/ Host Central Administration Services 2/ Configure Office Sharepoint Server Search

8. LONMOSDR01 Web-front-End services Assign MOSS Services Initialize Indexes Propargation on Web-Front-Ends 1/ Assign to ‘use this server for serving search queries’ 2/ Setup query server index file location

9. LONMOSDR02 Web-front-End services Assign MOSS Services Initialize Indexes Propargation on Web-Front-Ends 1/ Assign to ‘use this server for serving search queries’ 2/ Setup query server index file location

10. Index Server Search Propagation Assign MOSS Services Initialize Indexes Propargation on Web-Front-Ends Push indexes Push indexes * Remember to Initialise a Full Crawl!

11. Complete MOSS Farm Restore! List other training sessions

12. Search & Crawl Configuration Run a Full Crawl of the Farm from the SSP.