SharePoint Replication

DocAve Replicator Business Case

As enterprises seek to gain a competitive advantage in the global marketplace, reliable access to current SharePoint assets across geographically distributed work places is vital. Data and settings often need to be moved, replicated, and synchronized among sites within locations or even between offices – and all this needs to be done without changing metadata, properties, or security settings.

Business Advantages for Microsoft SharePoint Replication

• Effective, Real-time Global Collaboration Across Geo-distributed Locations

  Ensure optimal performance and content availability for end users to seamlessly collaborate by replicating content, configurations, workflow history and security settings to geographically distributed farms

• Automate Site and Content Publication

  Automate content publication within or across SharePoint farms to streamline content lifecycle management

• Conflict-free Synchronization

  Synchronize critical SharePoint content, configurations, security, and user settings across local or globally distributed environments via a centralized, highly intuitive management console

• Control Bandwidth and Network Traffic

  Control performance and network traffic, empowering you to manage SharePoint replication even over slow connections. These include full content or byte-level replication; flexible scheduling; data compression; and advanced network control settings

• Delegate Replication Plan Management to Optimize Operational Efficiency

  Delegate replication plan management to site collection owners or individual content owners directly, minimizing the burden on IT staff. Allow content owners to update document properties before the content is replicated, ensuring replicated content is up to date and evolving information classification requirements can be easily implemented.

• Securely Replicate Data between Farms

  Offline replication mode allows for replication to a local or network drive, which can later be physically transported to another location, and imported to a secure environment. Offline replication prevents organizations from having to open up extra ports in firewalls, mitigating security threats.

DocAve Replicator Technical Overview

• Synchronize content within a single SharePoint environment or across multiple geo-distributed farms, including Office 365 - SharePoint Online sites, to seamlessly manage multiple on-premise and hybrid SharePoint environments via a centralized management console
• Replicate entire site collections or individual items, automating content selection based on customizable business rules to streamline content publishing within or across environments – including extranets hosted on-premises or in Office 365 SharePoint Online
• Keep SharePoint content synchronized across farms with one- or two-way replication, utilizing customizable rules to resolve any conflicts
• Perform live, real-time replication based on customizable event triggers (including item update, deletion, and check-in) or perform scheduled replications as often as every 15 minutes
• Utilize byte-level differencing; change-log technology to only transfer updated content; throttling controls with connection re-try; compression; or offline replication options to optimize bandwidth consumption and available network resources
• Utilize container creation, deletion synchronizations, and on-demand content renaming for comprehensive management of globally distributed content
• Protect SharePoint content in the event of an accidental content, configuration, or security settings overwrite – similar to an undo function, roll back altered content to its original state
• Configure up to five concurrent threads to optimize efficiency with parallel replication of content across geographically dispersed locations

DocAve Replicator Resources

Product Brochures:

• DocAve 6 Replicator Product Brochure

Not fully migrated to SharePoint 2013 and 2010 yet?

• DocAve Replicator for SharePoint 2007 and 2010

Case Studies:

• Anglo American Seamlessly Synchronizes SharePoint Content Worldwide with DocAve Replicator

  Anglo American is now able to ensure more than 20,000 end-users on three geo-distributed continents have access to the most up-to-date content in SharePoint with DocAve Replicator – find out how.

• Helix Energy Solutions Replicates Data and Content to Geo-Distributed SharePoint Farms & Sea Vessels with DocAve

  Find out how a leading Oil & Gas company replicates 1.2 terabytes of SharePoint worldwide.

• Xstrata Coal Queensland Meets Legislative Requirements by Regularly Replicating 20 GB of SharePoint Data from Primary Farm to Six Dispersed Farms throughout Queensland with DocAve

  Find out how Xstrata Coal Queensland implemented an effective data replication plan and backed up its SharePoint environment with DocAve.

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Solution Briefs:

• Web Content Management
  Find out how DocAve helps organizations transform SharePoint deployments into rich, customer-facing platforms.
• Enterprise Content Management
  Find out how to unleash SharePoint's full capabilities and transform it into the powerful and efficient ECM system your organization demands.
• Infrastructure Management
  This brief discusses the importance of maintaining a well-managed and protected SharePoint deployment in order to provide all global users with optimal SharePoint access, business continuity, and platform stability.

Explore all of our available Solution Briefs

White Papers:

• Optimizing Data Access with Intelligent SharePoint Replication

  This document reviews best practices for planning and implementing a comprehensive, reliable and efficient SharePoint synchronization strategy to optimize data access and increase productivity.

Peruse our collection of available White Papers

User Guides:

• Read the DocAve 6 Replicator User Guide for SharePoint 2013 and 2010

Still on a prior release of SharePoint?

• Read the complete DocAve 5 User Guide for SharePoint 2007 and 2010 support