I’m really falling behind on my “poll of the month”, and to be honest, it’s not worth the name, so I have decided to change it to “The SharePoint Poll”! By doing that I don’t have to feel bad about not producing a new poll each moth. But still, if you have thoughts or questions that could be well suited for being a SharePoint Poll please let me know by posting a comment below and we ask the community!

So let’s move on and discuss the latest poll results and the next question.

Last time the questions was: Are you comfortable with you Disaster and Recovery plan?

The results are unfortunately what I expected. Almost one third don’t have one, 38 % says it contain gaps! It’s horrifying that only 23% answers yes to this question. Especially since SharePoint environments now days very often contain business critical information. To bad it’s to often that these Disaster and Recovery questions are first brought up and put on the table first when something bad happens to the environment. Don’t you agree? As long as things works no one complaints. If the farm goes down, well, you will probably hear about it…

So this made me think about how often sensitive or business critical information is actually stored in SharePoint and if any extra precautions are taken or considered when putting that kind of information in there. So, Do you store Business Critical information in SharePoint? And with Isolation I mean in a like separate Site Collection, separate Web application, Web application different application pools etc. to be able to easier restore the information.