subject: How Sharepoint Solutions Team Can Install, Configure And Use Syntergy Replicator For Sharepoint Cons [print this page] The Syntergy Replicator for SharePoint offers interfarm replication services for MOSS 2007 and WWW v3.0. SharePoint consulting team can refer to the installation and configuration manuals that are quite well written and explain with the help of screen shots so that one is aware of how and where to find things. The screenshots also help in making SharePoint consulting team understand at what step of setup or installation they are involved at during the process.
The user interface assists with meeting the expectations of SharePoints look and feel to help minimize the learning curve of administrators. If SharePoint solutions team possess both farms within their grasp then it is possible to establish and configure replication easily and without much effort.
Understanding replication technology
There are clients of SharePoint solutions that have multiple farms situated globally. As SharePoint clients establish their information and technical architectures, they find gaps in the functionality of their core product. One of these gaps happens to be replication, which exists at both the farm as well as client level. It is not possible at the farm level for functionalities to reproduce these sites to other farms. Also, replicating sites to the workstation is not as strong as it is supposed to be.
Here are some reasons on why replication technologies may be required:
Workforce that is separated geographically
oSlow performance between distributed locations
Branch Office, subsidiaries
Mobile divisions
Ships, construction sites and platforms
Environments that are logically separated
oIntranets/Extranets
o Outsourcing Site
SharePoint Migrations - SPS 2003 > SPS 2003/2007
oMultiple live sites
Lotus Note matching functionality
Where site level replication is concerned, SharePoint consulting team may possess a requirement to duplicate marketing, product as well as human resource information to other continents. Replicating in this case would not mean recreating the materials rather it would mean a simple way of developing and managing the sites. At client level replication, it is advantageous to be able to work on documents or tasks that exists within a site. As part of SharePoint solutions, it is any day more benefitting to replicate the site to a particular workstation, creating edits and syncing with the site when one goes back online helps in boosting the usage of the sites.
Using Syntergy Replicator for SharePoint
For site level replication, Syntergy provides a solution that includes installation on the Web Front End servers of the SharePoint farms. Unlike IORAs product, Syntergy replicator does not require additional hardware to replicate between different farms.
Some of the advantages of using Syntergy Replicator include:
It provides the benefit of instant or scheduled replication to SharePoint consulting team
There is no requirement of network traffic till a change is made
It provides complete support for checkin/checkout
It also features flexible architecture that works well even with the existing SharePoint servers
This particular technology also extends support for all types of lists including full read/write bi-directional mod
The installation can take a couple of minutes for the SharePoint consulting team while the creating the plan for replication for a simple information architecture may take up to a couple of hours. It is important that an organization takes into account the information architecture requirements and also bandwidth limitation of the network when planning to replicate.
