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A Microsoft Word Document Template For Disaster Recovery Planning


Written by Alexander Windel, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer.


Let’s say you want to create a disaster recovery (DR) plan for a common, shared enterprise IT service such as e-mail or document collaboration in your organization. One of the results of the plan will surely be a document outlining the DR strategy for that service. But where do you start? What should be part of a DR plan document? And how does it fit into the over-all business continuity plan?

To help with that process, I’ve created a Microsoft Word document template for disaster recovery planning. It’s somewhat centered around SharePoint as a technology but you can easily customize it to fit your needs. The recommendations in the template are based on how Microsoft IT does disaster recovery. One basic assumption I’d like to point out though: the template assumes that you have some kind of secondary data center as a core component of your disaster recovery strategy.

DR Plan Table of Contents

Here’s a link to a zip file containing a Microsoft Word Template of the DR PlanDR Plan Template.zip

Hope you find it helpful and any feedback is appreciated.

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  • Anonymous
    June 14, 2013
    Great document, really well thought out and planned!

  • Anonymous
    June 25, 2013
    This is really useful. There are so many resources out there that talk about the details of DR, but this is the first one that actually shows you what a finished DR Plan would look like. I can now see what I'm aiming for!

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    December 11, 2013
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  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2014
    Thanks - great document to get started with. DR plans aren't the most exciting thing to work on and this templates helps me get on with it. Thanks again

  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2014
    Thanks a lot! Very helpful.

  • Anonymous
    January 29, 2014
    Thanks, very useful document. Got me started on this boring job-to-do

  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2014
    Thank you this will help me greatly with my class project. Cheers

  • Anonymous
    February 05, 2014
    Thanks much!! This is a great jumping off point to start our company DR plan. Appreciate the template and knowledge :)

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  • Anonymous
    May 26, 2014
    Thank you for this. I didn't know where to start until I came across your post. Perfect and helped me enormously.
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  • Anonymous
    May 27, 2014
    Great doc very helpful indeed.

  • Anonymous
    June 30, 2014

    I found this document very useful. Excellent work and great help for DR Planning.

  • Anonymous
    July 07, 2014
    Excellent Stuff ! !

  • Anonymous
    September 09, 2014
    Really great document, thanks so much!!

  • Anonymous
    September 09, 2014
    Excellent document!

  • Anonymous
    September 25, 2014
    Thank you so much - it is very helpful and Free!

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    September 29, 2014
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  • Anonymous
    October 14, 2014
    Great post man. It gives me a place to start with our DR Plan

  • Anonymous
    December 04, 2014
    Alex, well done, this is a good document to help others get started. in the doc a business continuity plan is referenced, do you have a sample of this document as well that can be used as a template ?

  • Anonymous
    December 11, 2014
    Excellent document! I am in the process of revamping our DR plan and this document will be a tremendous help. Cheers.

  • Anonymous
    January 07, 2015
    Excellent document. I believe you have just saved hundreds of hours for your fellow technology peers! Thank you.

  • Anonymous
    March 25, 2015
    excellent document! thanks for the contribution

  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2016
    DR plan is documented well, thanks.

    • Anonymous
      January 11, 2017
      Great document!
  • Anonymous
    January 13, 2017
    Thanks for this. The Disaster Recovery Plan refers to a broader Business Continuity Plan. Do you have a template for the Business Continuity Plan? It would be great to have that as well. Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    January 18, 2017
    Great stuff and so much helpful!