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Application Manager for SharePoint supports only SQL instance mode protection. Database-only
protection mode is not available.
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By default, Application Manager for SharePoint displays the Advanced options and automatically
selects to failover Server Name and Hostname (SPNs). These two options are required to make
SharePoint failover work correctly.
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Application Manager for SharePoint does not support graceful/soft failover.
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Only target web servers running a version of SharePoint that is identical to what is installed on
the source web front-end can be extended into the source SharePoint configuration.
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The SharePoint Admin account used to install WSS 3 or MOSS 2007 on the source web front-end
is required to extend a target web server into the SharePoint configuration.
File server
Application Manager for file severs does not support graceful/soft failover.
Single forest Yes Yes Yes
Multiple forest No No No
Parent/child Yes Yes Yes
Child/child Yes Yes Yes
Windows 2003 Windows 2008
Source to target topology
One to one
Yes Yes
Many to one No No
One to many No No
Cascaded (chained) No No
Cluster support
Cluster to cluster
No No
Cluster to standalone No No
Standalone to cluster No No
Domain topology
Single forest
Yes Yes
Multiple forest No No
Parent/child No No
Child/child Yes, as long as the
child domain has a
DNS server. If the
DNS server resides
in the parent
domain, then
validation will fail.
Yes, as long as the
child domain has a
DNS server. If the
DNS server resides
in the parent
domain, then
validation will fail.
SQL 2000 SQL 2005 SQL 2008