Installation Consideration for Microsoft SharePoint Environment

This topic provides the information that you need to install and configure the Arcserve UDP Agent for Microsoft SharePoint Environment. The information in this topic assumes that you are familiar with the characteristics and requirements of your Microsoft SharePoint Server Farm.

Environmental Considerations

SharePoint environments can be complex and distributed across a number of machines. The server farm configuration must be supported by Microsoft. For example, a distributed SharePoint environment could contain the following components:

• One or more Web-Front-End Servers.
• One or more Database Servers used by SharePoint Server Farm.
• In most of the cases, the SharePoint is installed in a domain environment. There will be one or more Domain Controllers and DNS servers.

Installation Consideration

Consider the following when you install the agents:

• SharePoint is a distributed environment. We recommend to install UDP Agent on every server in the SharePoint Farm including Web-Front-End Servers and Database Servers.
• We also recommend to protect the entire Domain environment, including Domain Controller, DNS Server. Those are required to restore Farm, Farm Configuration and Web Application.