Everything works until it does not. A disk array fails, a site loses power, someone deletes the wrong organisational unit at five to five on a Friday. What happens next is not a matter of luck — it is a matter of what you built before it happened. This course is about building that. It is a practical, hands-on disaster recovery course for Windows Server environments, and it follows one thread from beginning to end: decide what has to survive, decide how fast it has to come back, then build the thing that delivers it. You will start with the plan. What business continuity and disaster recovery actually mean, how to set a recovery point objective and a recovery time objective for a service, and how to write a recovery plan that someone can follow at three in the morning without calling you.
Then you will keep the service up. Failover clustering from the fundamentals: building a file server cluster by hand, quorum and witnesses, cluster roles, site-aware clustering across two locations, and stretch clusters with Storage Replica. Then you will protect the virtual machines. What Hyper-V Replica does, when it is the right answer and when it is not, how to configure it for disaster recovery, and how storage migration fits alongside it. Then you will back things up and get them back. Windows Server Backup, what happens when data deduplication is switched on, how long a deleted object really lives, and a first backup with Veeam Backup and Replication.
