Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery | Managed Availability | Dynamics 365 FastTrack TechTalk

In our newest Dynamics 365 TechTalk, Microsoft experts Imad Yanni, Chaitali Shah, and Mike Szymecki walk you through Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) and Managed Availability in the Dynamics 365 ecosystem. Learn how Microsoft ensures system resilience, how BCDR is implemented by default, and what tools and practices are available to protect your business-critical applications:

• Core concepts and terminology of BCDR
• Built-in availability features in Dynamics 365
• Real-world scenarios and architectural insights
• Best practices for ensuring continuity in the face of disruptions

Companion deck: BCDR TechTalk - Managed Availability Public Doc.pdf

Presenters:

Imad Yanni, Principal Product Manager
Chaitali Shah, Principal Software Engineering Manager
Mike Szymecki, Senior Program Manager
Steven Koppens, Senior Program Manager
 

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:33 Agenda
01:18 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
02:29 What Disasters is BCDR Designed For?
03:17 BCDR Concepts
08:02 Dynamics 365 Resiliency: Built-In (Default)
11:15 Built-In resiliency real-World Experience
12:01 Introduction to Managed Availability
13:01 CE Resiliency: Premium (Self-Service)
15:00 Self-Service Disaster Recovery Introduction
21:24 Disaster Recovery in PPAC
23:16 Preparing the Environment for Self-service Disaster Recovery
24:33 Initiating disaster recovery
25:12 Unplanned failover
26:15 SSDR is an environment lifecycle operation
28:12 Environment back in ready state
29:05 Operation recorded in environment history
30:11 Admin Alerted of potential limitations
31:49 Switch back is a planned failover
32:14 Self-service disaster recovery billing – Consumed capacity and experience
35:52 Disaster recovery capacity-based billing
38:57 Capacity experience
39:33 Capacity experience when SSDR is active
39:55 SSDR capacity experience
40:49 Disabling self-service disaster recovery
41:00 Disabling DR will delete data in paired
41:40 SSDR Cannot be disabled while in secondary region
42:08 Customer must switch to primary region first
42:32 Managed Availability
44:32 End-to-end scenarios
47:27 Summarizing: “Built-In” and “Self-Service”
51:04 Closing comments