Identifying DR scenarios within SharePoint and its associated technology stack

Tackling DR in a SharePoint environment is often a struggle for both seasoned SharePoint administrators and newbies, because of the different ways in which the platform can be deployed within an organization. Furthermore, it can prove to be challenging to apply existing DR experience to SharePoint, due to the distributed and componentized nature of SharePoint and the supporting technologies that need to be in place for SharePoint to function. SharePoint relies on technologies such as Microsoft SQL Server, Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), Internet Information Services (IIS), and .NET framework just to name a few, so there are a lot of dependencies and points of failure to identify during the DR planning stage.