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Create SharePoint Server Scenarios

Creating scenarios is covered in full detail in the Arcserve RHA Administration Guide. This section provides additional information specific to creating a Microsoft SharePoint Server scenario. The Scenario Creation Wizard guides you through the steps required to create a high availability scenario. When completed, you should run your scenario to start data synchronization. Synchronization could take a while, depending on database size and network bandwidth. After synchronization completes, your high availability scenario now maintains the Replica server so that it can take over for the Master the moment a failure is detected.

Notes:

• When the Arcserve RHA Engine is installed in a SharePoint environment that is joined to a SharePoint farm, the installation process installs Arcserve RHA SharePoint COM+ and registers the corresponding service, CAARCserveRHASPSCOMApp, for all SharePoint Scenarios. When you uninstall the Arcserve RHA Engine, the uninstallation process uninstalls and unregisters the corresponding components.
• On Windows Server 2008 systems, the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) service may prevent the SharePoint COM+ application from starting properly. This may prevent SharePoint HA scenarios from performing critical operations. For example, database Auto-Discovery, Run this scenario, Assured Recovery (AR) testing, and so on. To remedy this problem, restart the server where the problem occurred (Master or Replica).
• For a high availability scenario, you must replicate the entire SharePoint Farm.
• For SharePoint Foundation 2010, you need two additional DLL files, Microsoft.Office.Server.dll and Microsoft.Office.Sever.Search.dll. You can copy these two files from the SharePoint 2010 full edition. Copy the two DLL files to the RHA engine folder and restart the CAARCserveRHASPSCOMAPP service.