Pro SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery and High Availability

Barriers to Consensus

There can be many barriers to creating a DR plan. Some will be practical, such as the fact that every business has finite resources. These have to be addressed with facts and figures to back up your arguments.

One paradoxical objection is the existence of a plan already! This plan may be large and complex to such an extent that no one actually understands it or has ever tested it. It may not include SharePoint explicitly. There can also be political reasons to oppose the development of a plan. For example, there may be people who favor the support of a platform they perceive as in competition with SharePoint and so they oppose anything that relates to it. Counteracting political maneuvering like this is beyond the scope ...