The style and approach of the book is an easy to read SharePoint admin guide. This is not a step by step instruction book, but rather a guide on how to implement and execute a disaster recovery plan to your SharePoint environment. This book is great for both SharePoint and SQL administrators new to the SharePoint 2013 architecture, and who are looking to get a good grounding in how to use implement a solid disaster recoveryrecovery plan. It's assumed that you have some experience in SharePoint and Windows Server and, as well be familiar with SQL.
Author Biography:
Peter Ward has worked with collaboration technology for over 20 years and is the
founder of Soho Dragon Solutions, a New York based SharePoint consultancy. He has
worked with some of the largest and most profi table companies in the USA, but also
with the small ones that he calls the 'Fortune 5,000,000'. This is his fourth co-authored
SharePoint book, the other three being Microsoft SharePoint 2010 End User Guide:
Business Performance Enhancement, Workfl ow in SharePoint 2010: Real World Business
Workfl ow Solutions, and Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook.
He has been a software guy forever, but is not much of a gadgeteer. In fact,
he's probably a late adopter. He teaches yoga part-time in NYC and likes to
serve up the perfect vegetarian dish. Peter Abreu is an Enterprise, SharePoint, and Cloud Architect, with extensive
experience architecting SharePoint 2007, 2010, and 2013 solutions on the cloud
or on premises.
He is a frequent speaker at user groups, and has just done an all-day session at the
SharePoint Best Practice Conference in DC. He was also a contributing author on the
new Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrators Companion book for Microsoft Press.
In his spare time, he enjoys studying for new certifi cations, learning new
technologies, and most of all spending time with his family. He lives in the
Washington D.C metro area. Pavlo Andrushkiw has spent nearly a decade in the Microsoft space delivering
complex infrastructure solutions to a plethora of clients in various verticals.
He currently works as the chief cloud architect for a major cloud services provider,
migrating and deploying complex production environments for enterprise clients
into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. This is his second co-authored
SharePoint book, the fi rst being Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives:
Q&A Handbook. Pat Esposito is the founder and CEO of IMPACT Management, a Microsoft partner
based in Long Island, New York.
He has been working with SharePoint technologies since the initial 2001 release.
Together with his partners, IMPACT aim's to "just make SharePoin Jeff Gellman is a Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) in Microsoft SharePoint and has over 12 years of experience with SharePoint going all the way back to the days of Tahoe. He has worked in all aspects of SharePoint projects including architecture, development, branding, infrastructure, disaster recovery, governance, backup and restore, migration and upgrade, and various third-party tools and utilities. With over 25 years of IT consulting experience, he has been involved in many projects over the years, for companies of all sizes, in roles ranging from developer to project manager with many of these projects having a heavy concentration on Microsoft technologies. He is a member of the Microsoft Virtual Technology Specialist Program (VTSP) and is a frequent speaker at events such as SharePoint Saturday. In his spare time Jeff enjoys photography, listening to music, going to concerts, and watching and going to sporting events.