Installation best practices for Data Protector SharePoint Granular Recovery Extension

Installation

Prerequisites

Following Microsoft SQL Server packages and Data Protector component need to be installed on

each WFE (SharePoint Web Front-End) and CA (SharePoint Central Administration) systems

(see blue colored systems in diagram):

• Microsoft SQL Server Native Client

• Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Objects Collection

• HP Data Protector User Interface

All these packages must be installed irrespective of the installed SQL Server version on the SharePoint

database backend system.

Figure 1: SharePoint example farm

Make sure all listed prerequisites are installed before you continue with the Granular Recovery

Extension installation.