Organizations must overcome the technological and infrastructural barriers inhibiting effective collaboration to ensure their SharePoint platform can support and sustain production objectives. The most effective and efficient means of doing so is via an intelligent and robust SharePoint geo-replication strategy. A successful strategy must provide sufficient flexibility to allow the organization to take advantage of the best features of both a centralized and a distributed architecture.

This document is intended to aid IT administrators and other stakeholders responsible for managing distributed SharePoint deployments, in planning and implementing a comprehensive, reliable and efficient replication strategy to optimize collaboration and increase productivity.